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United States of America100 Years of History
1776-1900

• U.S. History Leader

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Why start a new country?

• Reasons for American Revolt
• Increased Regulation
• Proclamation of 1763
• Intolerable Acts
• Taxation without representation
• The stamp act

English stamps from the Stamp Act
The Boston Tea Party

• What they were seeking
• Freedom of religion
• The right to self govern
• Freedom of speech/press

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The Revolutionary War

• The fight for independence began in Concord,
  Massachusetts, April 18, 1775
• Military Strategies Evolve Guerrilla Warfare

Washington Crossing the Delaware River

• Americans win the war for independence at the
  Battle of Yorktown October 19, 1781
• Britain eventually accepts defeat and signs the
  Treaty of Paris in September of 1783

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Independence and The American Revolution 1775-1781

• America formally declares independence from
  England on July 4th 1776.

The Declaration Committee
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A Nation and Its Ideals Emerge under the
Constitution

• Equality, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, Democracy
  are the foundation of the new country
• The Articles of Confederation are first adopted
  but dont give the central government a chance
• The Constitution is finally ratified by all 13
  states in 1790

The United States Constitution
Paul Reveres Midnight Ride
The Liberty Bell
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An Expanding Nation The first ten years

• America Pushes Beyond its Colonial Borders
• 1790-1800 Three new states are added, Vermont,
  Kentucky and Tennessee
• Moving West
• Farming Was King
• George Washington The peoples president
• Defined what the American President was
• Political Parties Emerge
• Federalists (Hamilton) and Democratic-Republicans
  (Jefferson)

I walk on untrodden ground, There is scarcely
any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be
drawn into precedent. - George Washington
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Americans Destiny Manifest Destiny, anobvious
fate Louisiana Purchase 1803

• Nothing less than a continent can suffice as the
  basis and foundation for the nation whose destiny
  is involved in the destiny of mankind.

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Change and Conflict in the American West

• Mining and Ranching
• Womens Roles
• Indian Wars

Cowboys in the West
General Custer in the field
The Joining of the Trans-Continental Railroad in
Utah
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Indian Wars Shatter Tribal Cultures
Lakota Woman

• Manifest destiny made no mention of the American
  Indian Trail of Tears
• Indian Removal Act of 1830 sent all Indians east
  of the Mississippi west to the Oklahoma Territory
• Eventually American Indians would be reduced to
  less than one percent of their original lands

Many if not most, of our Indian wars have their
origin in broken promises and acts of injustice
upon our part - President Rutherford B. Hayes,
1877
Images of Planes Indians
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The Civil War WHY?

• Sectional Differences Divide the Union
• The North
• Increasingly urban/industrial, by 1860 35 of the
  population lived in cities
• Dramatically increased Infrastructure for
  transport of goods (railroads)
• No longer depended on massive manual labor so
  their need for slaves diminished.

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The Civil War WHY?

• Sectional Differences Divide the Union
• The South
• Maintained rural life and an agriculturally
  dominated economy
• Required the use of slaves to support plantations
• Abolition of slavery was a threat to the
  Southern way of life

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The Civil War 1861-1865
President Abraham Lincoln

• Union (North)
• Great advantage in population, farmland,
  factories, manufactured goods, firearms
  production, and railroads.
• Confederacy (South)
• Advantage of defending own soil
• Outstanding military leadership
• Hoped for the Union to tire and allow succession
  from the union

Confederate President Jefferson Davis
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Civil War The outcome

• 620,000 Americans are killed
• Basics The North wins, Slaves are emancipated
  and the United States is once again united.well,
  sort of. PROCLAMATON
• The Confederate States are absorbed back into the
  United States.
• 1863 - Lincoln is assassinated. Johnson takes
  over.
• Reconstruction begins.

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Reconstruction 1865-1877

• Reconstruction Amendments
• 13th outlawed slavery
• 14th made former slaves citizens
• 15th Suffrage for African-American men
• C.W. Amendments

Reconstruction Cartoon Poster
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Reconstruction The harsh race reality

• The compromise of 1877 ended reconstruction
• Southern Redeemers instituted Jim Crow Laws
  that segregated blacks and whites.
• Redeemers also instituted poll taxes and literacy
  tests which severely limited the black male vote

Jim Crow Poster after Reconstruction
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Innovation and Industry The beginning of the
industrial revolution

• Steel, Oil, Railroads, and Electricity combine to
  spark the 2nd industrial revolution (Carnegie /
  Rockefeller)

• Inventions such as the locomotive, electric light
  bulb, and telegraph change America forever
• These innovations combined with a new zest for
  capitalism propelled the U.S. toward the 20th
  century at light speed
• In some cases progress meant pain The Gilded
  Age
• Labor Struggles
• Equality

Video Steenstry
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Across into the 20th Century

• It was a long an brutal 19th century but American
  was rapidly growing and on the move
• As the 20th century rapidly approached, America
  was beginning to make its place on the world
  stage in
• Politics
• Big Business
• Immigration
• Imperialism
• Economics