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American history (Divisions geographically (Coasts (West, East, Democrats)…

- - - - Native-american languages are very distantly related to Siberian languages
      - Native americans
        
        Maya
        
        Aztek
      - Vikings came to North America
    - - English
      - French
        
        Did not mind mixed origin
      - Dutch
      - Spanish
      - Portugese
      - When the travellers visited they left some things and went back home. But they left diseases.
        
        Diseases wiped out whole villages
        
        Only documented in the south but was probably the same in the north
        
        Nomadic natives
        
        May be the result of the aftermath of disease-spread villages
    - - Puritans
        
        North
        
        New England
        
        Small family farms
        
        Fond of education
        
        Harvard, 1636
      - Anglicans
        
        South
        
        Big lands
        
        Tobacco
        
        Sugar
        
        Slaves
      - People lived there permanently
      - WASP
        
        White anglo-saxan protestants
        
        Maryland - Catholics
      - Independent colonies
      - Boston Tea Party
        
        Protest against the taxes
        
        'No taxation without representation'
        
        Civil war War of Independence 1775-1783
        
        Declaration of Independence
        
        New ideas on how to run a country
        
        Division between Americans
        
        Stay english
        
        Lost
        
        Become independent
        
        Won in 1783
        
        13 states
        
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        Settlements in the late 1800's #
        
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        George Washington
        
        Father of the US Nation
        
        The first president
        
        Two-house parliaments
        
        Senators (2 from each state)
        
        States
        
        Slave-states
        
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        Non-slave states
        
        Needs to keep a balance between North and South
        
        Women's right to vote
        
        British Civil War 1861
        
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        Commander of chief
        
        Leads to the American revolution
- - - - Jim Crow Law (Reaction from freeing of the slaves)
        
        Segregation between white and black. Such as Black in the back of the buss. White in front. Blacks had to give up their seat for white.
        
        Rosa Park, refused to give up her seat. Got jail.
        
        Black People boycotted buses for 1 year. Companies suffered because mostly blacks took the bus.
        
        Lynching (Mostly because of "rape"). Civilians killed blacks. Famous case: Killed a 14 year old boy because he apparently said something rude to a white female.
    - - Still lots of discrimination
      - All blacks are democrats
- - - - Peace treaty of versailles (Made to humiliate Germany after WW1)
      - Prohibition of sale and consumption of alcohol in US.
        
        Created the Mob through illegal bars / smuggling
      - 1920
        
        Black Friday / Stock market crashed / Great depression. LOTS of sucides
        
        1930 Dust bowl years
        
        (Extreme dry in the mid west, destroyed farmer )
        
        The New Deal (Roosevelt) 1933
        
        Government program to bring healthcare, social security, help the worst parts. Built factories / helped farmers with new machines etc etc Similar to Folkhemmet in Sweden. Roosevelt forced the Supreme court to bend their will (Unique moment in History). Was a way to build a social net after Black Friday.
        
        1939 World War 2
        
        Didnt effect US as much as EU.
        
        Less soldier died, more civilian. War was not on US soil, therefore not effected as much.
        
        Pearl Harbor was the first attack on US soil since 1800 something. Thats why they took 9/11 so extremely hard.
        
        1950s
        
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        Bank closed doors infront of farmers because they had no bills (due to Black Friday) in their banks. Made famers unable to pay debts and lost their farms.
        
        Created bank robbers and the public love for them. Public felt the banks deserved it.
        
        Women stopped to wear corset, long skirts, make up and cut their hair short. Hollywood bloomed.
- - - - Above state-level
        
        FBI
        
        US Marshalls
    - - Laws
        
        Lawyers can only practice in the state where they took the bar-exam
        
        Marriage ages differ
      - Taxes
      - A lot of states resent federal law
        
        Complex relationship between state- and federal police
      - US consists of states