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19th century: American History (Slavery slave-trade-africa (South: …
19th century: American History
The Louisiana purchase
Manifest Destiny (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
)
"American Progress"- the illustration of Manifest Destiny
Columbia - the personification of USA:
a quasi-Goddess
school book = education
telegraph wire = spreading of communication
The background:
a great plain without buildings
buffalos (near extinction)
natives hunters on horses
2 stagecoaches
a big harbor
transcontinental railroad
farmers
Slavery
South:
economy based on agriculture
-> labor force needed in large farms
1863
- Licoln signed "The Emancipation Proclamation":
freeing of slaves in the south
North:
slaves worked in plantations (Virginia)
importation of slaves from Africa to Virginia
1806
- Anti-slavery legislation (Thomas Jefferson)
stops the importation of slaves from Africa
no longer African slaves
slaves were only american
American slaves:
know the language and customs
can read and write
know territories - if they run away they find shelter easier
Underground railroad: a way to run away to the north - because slavery wasn't legal anymore
Go to Canada to be free
Slave-catchers: they searched and killed runaway slaves in the north
1865
- the 13th amendment
all slaves of Confederacy were freed
The freed slaves had 3 possibilities:
go to the north
go to west
staying in the south
Abraham Lincoln
self taught
worked in a general store (in Illinois)
became a Congressman: representative for the state of IL in Washington DC
1850s
- Republican party was created
1860
- presidential candidate for the party:
Lincoln won
Consequence of his victory:
withdrawal of 11 southern states from the Union
11 states = the Confederacy
Its president: Jefferson Davis
Its army: Gray troops
1861
-
1865
Civil War
Blue troops - nothern army (Ulysses Grant)
VS
Gray troops - southern army (Robert Lee)
1863
- "Gettysburg Address" Lincoln gave a speech (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
)
April 1865
(10 days after the end of the civil war)
Lincoln was shot by a southern sympathizer
British colonization
1830
- The Indian Removal act
Trail of tears: a deadly journey (4000 pople died)
indians were forced to go to Oklaoma (reservations)
The life style changed:
before nomads (tribes)
now farmers (families)
british pushed the indians out of their territories
