Usa History

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PRESIDENT MONROE(1820)ANDREW JACKSON(1862)1.1The frontier, “The west”, And The American Experience.Frederick Jackson Turner | -Congress passed the Indian removal Act.-Homestead act-The Westward march of agricultural frontier.-The midst of the war of 1812.-Special Native American territory.-decennial census.-frontier.-Treatetment of Native Americantribes. | Providing funds to transport the eastern tribes beyond the Mississippi.could be claimed by merely occupying and improving itDid not pass Missouri into the vast western territory acquired in the Louisiana.Jackson, then in charge of the Tennessee militia, was sent into southern Alabama, where he ruthlessly put down an uprising of creek Indians.Was set up in what is now Oklahoma. In all, thetribes signed 94 treaties during Jackson’s two terms, ceding millions of hectares to the federal government.Revealed that at last the united States no longer possessed a discernible line of settlement.It had created a nation with culture perhaps coarser than europe’s,but also more pragmatic,energetic, individualistic,and democratic.Environmental despoliation, the common experience of the frontier,they argue, was one of hardship and failure. |
1.Westward
2. Sectional Conflict.
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2.1 Two AmericasCharles Dickens1841-18422.2 Lands of promise2.3 Slavery and Sectionalist.2.4 The Abolitionist.William Lloyd Garrison.1831Frederick Douglas.Theodore Dwigth Weld.1837 | -American Experiment-The young’s nation size-Industry boomed-New England and The MiddleAtlantic, Main Centers of Manufacturing.-The Maritime Trade.-South Centered of agriculture.-The introduction of labor-slavering implements.-The nation’s wheat crops.-The South lagged behind-The admissition of new free states.-An early antislavery movement.-The cotton gin and westward expansion.-The Abolitionist movement.-Garrison’s sensational methods awakened.-Underground Railroad-Southern repressionof free speech.-Abolitionists flooded Congress. | Were by no means universal.One skeptic was the English novelist Charles Dickens, who first visited United States.Diversity defied easy generalization and invited contradiction,America was both a freedom-loving and slave-holding society.In the Midwest and the South, Agriculture flourished after the Gold mines of California poured their precious oreinto the channels of trade.Principal products of these areas were textiles,lumber,clothing,machinery,leatherAnd woolen goods.had reached the height of its prosperity ; vessels flying the American of its prosperity; vessels flying the American flag plied the oceans, distributing wares of all nations.Tobacco was important in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. In South Carolina, rice wasabundant crop. the climate and soil of Louisiana encouraged the cultivation of sugar.Notably the McCormick reaper ( A machine to cut and harvest grain), made possible an unparalleled increase in grain production.Swelled from some 35 million helicopters in 1850 to nearly 61 million in 1860, more than half grown in the Midwest. As important stimulus to the country’s prosperity was the great improvement intransportation facilities.It was not until the late 1850s that a continuous line ran through the mountains connecting the lower misssissippi River area with the southern Atlantic seaboard.Antislavery Northerners saw in the southern view a conspiracy for proslavery aggrandizement.An offshoot of the American Revolution, had won its last victory in 1808, when abolished the slave trade withAfrica.That emerged in the early 1830s was combative,umcomprising,and insistent upon an inmediate end to slavery.Northerners to the evil in an institution many had long come to regard as unchangeable. He sought to hold up to public gaze the most repulsive aspects of slavery and to castigate Slaves holders as tortures and traffickers in human life.The Railroad helped slaves to scape safe in trough the...