US History Final

1831, Cyrus McCormick

The McCormick Reaper was important because it was a time saving invention that allowed farmers to more than double the size of there crops. and was one of the greatest industrial establishments in the US

Andrew Menelik, 1784

It removed grain from the stalk, and it was significant because Mechanization of this process took much of the drudgery out of farm labor.

Benjamin Wright, Canvass White, Amos Eaton. 1825

it shortened the distance boats had to travel between the Great Lakes and East Coast seaports like New York. Goods could be shipped faster and cheaper.

A very fast sailing ship, built beginning of 1850s, by American shipbuilders

The 'clippers' were the fastest most advanced sailing ships of the day giving the USA an advantage in speed of transport and range of ships.

mans way of moving people and freight on rivers and lake (steamboat), man way of moving people and freight across the railroad

The Spinning Jenny helped to modernize the textile industry and was one of the most important inventions of the industrial revolution. The importance of the Spinning Jenny was the increase in production of spun yarn.

Richard Arkwright. Samuel Slater, in 1790

first water-powered cotton spinning mill in North America to utilize the Arkwright system of cotton spinning, and increased cotton production

The Embargo Encourages manufacturing at home

F.C Lowell and 1813

The factory system was RAW materials come in transform to a finished product and work all day long, Workers will be needed in the mill increase in jobs.

Samuel Morse, 1844

It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code (bearing his name) that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet; Made it possible to communicate quicker over vast distances

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, 1857

Central park was a beautiful place with bridges and, trees and fresh air. It gave people a place to live outside of the hussle and bussle of the city

• The Second Great Awakening (1800–1830s) was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of renewed personal
• salvation experienced in revival meetings.

Charles Grandison Finney

Hate sin but not sinners, we all have social problems and they are all caused because of slavery, we need to combat to reform American society

It created divisions within the church leading to more diversity, weakened church authority,and played a signifigant role in social reform.

Ann Lee, 1780s

celibate and communal lifestyle, and their model of equality of the sexes

beautiful furniture, mechanical devices, and architecture.

Joesph Smith, 1820s

They believed that marriage should be shared and polygamy is allowed, also to follow the book of mormon

it was the fastest growing religion in America at one time

1830s, Horus Man

Teachers must be trained, must go to school, free education through grade 12 only in Massachusetts

It set a good handle on how to run the school system and stood for a model that most of the north would follow

did not stop crime or reform people

1820s, and they made people go into rooms boxes cages and serve a sentence in there

Dorthea Dixs went and saw many people had been treated extremely poorly

contribution to society was to help the mentally ill in Jails.

Lucie Stone, Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Staton

Happened in 1848, women spoke to a group, made it public, meet annually

The convention was seen by some of its contemporaries, including organizer and featured speaker Lucretia Mott, as but a single step in the continuing effort by women to gain for themselves a greater proportion of social, civil and moral rights, but it was viewed by others as a revolutionary beginning to the struggle by women for complete equality with men.

Effort to get people to stop drinking alcohol

came door to door with pamphlets for both literature and illiterate people

it increased absence of alcohol after the temperance movement and pushed for mandatory temperance rather than voluntary

1820s

a gradual end to slavery started colony in libera for freed slaves

Elect people to push an end to congress through the government, only wanted to end slavery, no other issues mattered

William Grassion, and Fred Douglas

slavery is wrong and its a sin, slaves must have rights this must happen now. Rid of slavery

are sorry for slavery, but they can just not see another way around it.

they say slavery is good how can it be bad, slavery is natural and is the natural condition of African Americans, They used population of the media to get the word out.

John c. Calhoun

Americans god given right to expand west ward to the pacific

John Louis Sullivan

it was the driving force for US expansion across the North American continent in the 19th century.

Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James polk

he United States of America annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state. The U.S. thus inherited Texas'border dispute with Mexico; this quickly led to the Mexican–American War, during which the U.S. captured additional territory (known as the Mexican Cession of 1848

1845

The Annexation of Texas was opposed by many northerners for fear of adding another slave state to the union, triggered the Mexican war from 1846-1848, and eventually resulted in Mexico being forced to give up half of its land in the Treaty of Hildalgo.

a place where fur trading happened with the Indians

the border was established between the American states and territories and Canada. It also established laws to allow American fisherman to use Canadian waters.

described the boundary between British North America and the US as a line from the farthest.

Settled the border between Canada and Maine – Settled the border between Canada and Vermont and New York– Reaffirmed the 49thparallel to the Rockies up to the Oregon Country as the border between us and canada

1821, William Becknell

for traders to trade in Mexico

Ultimately the trail tied the New Mexican Southwest economically to the rest of the United States and hastened American penetration of the region.

as a Mexican politician and general who greatly influenced early Mexican politics and government. Santa Anna fought first against Mexican independence from Spain, then in support of it.

1847, he Battle of Veracruz was a 20-day siege of the key Mexican beachhead seaport of Veracruz,during the Mexican-American War. Lasting from March 9–29, 1847, it began with the first large-scale amphibious assault conducted by United States military forces, and ended with the surrender and occupation of the city.

saw the United States (U.S.) Army use artillery to repulse the much larger Mexican army in the Mexican-American War.

Concubines– House servants– Miners– soldiers

Concubines– House servants– Laborers

places where slaves were kept before they were bought

cotton

Eli Whitney, 1793

machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.

made cotton production a profitable Business which lead to the increase in slavery. Basically, it is what turned the south from a society with slaves to a slave society. Before slavery was present in the society, but the new cotton Business turned slavery into the irreplaceable system in Society.

African foodways African folktales African language African naming traditions African musical traditions African religious traditions

was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom by arranging to have himself mailed to Philadelphia abolitionists in a wooden crate after 33 years of slavery. For a short time he became a noted abolitionist speaker and later a showman, but later lost the support of the abolitionist community, notably Frederick Douglass, who wished Brown had kept quiet about his escape so that more slaves could have escaped using similar means.

was an African American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 55 white deaths.

was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831.[1] Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards.

And the Virginia legislature seriously considered abolishing slavery in the state of Virginia. They were that terrified.

Slavery was the main source of money for the united states

if 50 percent want slavery then it happens

US fugitive slave commissioners -duties & powers• Proof of ownership• Suspected fugitive’s right to testify• Commissioner’s fee• No jury trial

was born a slave in Stafford County, Virginia. As a young man, he became a Baptist and a "slave preacher" at the Falmouth Union Church in Falmouth, Virginia. In 1853 he escaped from slavery and reached Boston, where he started working.The following year, he was captured under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and tried under the law in Boston.

the events generated strong opposition across the North to Pierce and his administration.

bad mouthing butler nephew beat the crap out of sumner

Caused people to say the slave owners are beating political officials

was a slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters

1857, he case was based on the fact that although he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves, they had lived with his master Dr. John Emerson in states and territories where slavery was illegal according to both state laws and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, including Illinois and Minnesota The United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules.

American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. During the 1856 conflict in Kansas, Brown commanded forces at the Battle of Black Jack and the Battle of Osawatomie. Brown's followers also killed five pro-slavery supporters at Pottawatomie. In 1859, Brown led an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry that ended with his capture

His actions unquestionably helped set in motion events that led to the Civil War.