FINAL
Tomorrow!
American Character
and Belief System
Creation
of democratic principles
in America
 diversity
of religions, even though
some were not tolerant
 examples of written documents
setting up governments
 elected legislative bodies
Challenging
rebellions
authority
against an
"unjust" government
speaking out against
religious authority
Expansion
a right
Northwest
westward was
Ordinance
Louisiana Purchase
Manifest Destiny
Compromise
was necessary
to deal with conflict
Northwest
ordinance
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1877
Business, Labor, and Reform
 From
mercantilism to capitalism; from a
collection of colonies controlled by the
policies of the mother country to a nation
that grew from the innovations and
inventions of individuals and the wealth of
select industries
 A give and take between the industrial
North with its money, banks, industry, and
immigrant labor and the agricultural South
with its tobacco, cotton, and slave labor
Immigration
 From
a nation overwhelmingly settled by
those from the British Isles (with lots of
slaves) to a nation diversified by millions of
"new immigrants"
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British
Irish and German in the mid-1800s
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
New immigrants from SE Europe from the
1880s through early 1900s: Ellis Island and
the backlash against the new immigrants
The Minority Experience
 Native
Americans
 Spanish
exploitation and the Pueblo
Revolt
 French trade
 English settlement and constant
removal westward: Trail of Tears; the
impact of the Transcontinental RR,
Homestead Act, and killing of the
buffalo
African
 The
Americans
institution of slavery: reality
 Abolition movement: women and
moral sin
 Reconstruction policies, successes
and failures
 post-Reconstruction South;
segregation (Jim Crow and Plessy)
and the debate between Booker
T. and WEB