CCOT AND SYNTHESIS
CCOT:
Comparing the era being discussed to previous or future eras
This can be how things are the same or different
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Women
o 1776- Abigail Adams- “Remember the Ladies”
o 1848- Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls
 Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 Crusade for women’s rights eclipsed by campaign against slavery
o 1850s- women went from working on the farms to becoming “factory girls”
 (textile mills)- Lowell
o 1920- Women’s Suffrage Movement, Temperance Movement, The New Woman, flappers, rise of
feminists, sex o’clock
o 1972- ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), Title IX
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Tariffs
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Embargo Act of 1807
Tariff of 1816
Tariff of 1828
Compromise Tariff of 1833
Tariff of 1842
Walker Tariff of 1846
Tariff of 1857
Taft’s Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909
Wilson’s Underwood Tariff of 1913
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law
Panics
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Following Revolutionary War “not worth a continental”
Panic of 1819
Panic of 1837
Panic of 1857
Great Depression 1929
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SYNTHESIS:
Cause and effect
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Shay’s Rebellion and the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation created the need for a Constitution
Manifest Destiny and the acquisition of new lands created the Civil War
The need for land in order to grow cotton created harsh relations with the Native Americans
Tariff of 1816 strengthened America’s economy
Alexander Hamilton’s economic policy following the American Revolution eventually caused a Bank War in
1832
The rise of new technology such as the steel plow and reaper caused the panic of 1857