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USA (OLD HISTORY (The great depression and the new deal (The new deal…

- - - - Jamestown, Virginia(1607)
        
        Wealthy from a new crop- tobacco
        
        Cotton
      - "New Jerusalem", north of Massachusetts, Puritan Protestant wanted a better and godlier society
        
        Example for the rest of the world
        
        Desire for perfection goes down the decades to modern times.
    - - Conflict with France
        
        The French was defeated in 1763
        
        The British government created a territory, and forbade the colonists to expand westwards as a reward for Native American help in the wars
        
        "No taxation without reprensation" a cry the colonists made because they didnt get to be represented in Parliament in London. Because the British government began taxing them
  - - - foundation of democracy with limits
      - All men are created equal
        
        All men got voting rights in 1830s
        
        women needed to wait a century longer
    - - still has until today
  - - - In 1877, the north grew tired and withdrew their troops
        
        Southern states regained self ovenment, and took away civil rights of the black and segregated races
    - - providing them skills
      - Civil rights
      - proection from former slave owners
  - - - a moving border area dividing lands
      - Westward expansion
        
        "Manifest Destiny"
        
        "empire of freedom and civilization"
        
        Between 1790 to 1853
        
        USA bought, conquered or negotiated to get the rest of the USA
        
        "Go West, young man"
    - - 1820 to 1860
        
        Five million new settlers
        
        most were farmers from northern and western Europe
  - - - Native Americans lost their lands
      - Population grew from 31 million (1865) to 105 million (1920)
      - Immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe
      - By 1920 the US had become the largest industrial power in the world
  - - - Later recognized in the Constitution
    - - Causes was growing trade, industry and self-sufficiency in agriculture
    - - Not in the South however
        
        Huge cotton and tobacco plantations, made slavery bigger
  - - - By 1850s most of the natve americans that lived east of Mississippi river died or was forcebly removed from the land
      - Between 1850s and 1890s the same thing happened to east of Mississippi river
    - - Texas revolted against Mexico and afterwards joined in the US in 1845
        
        Mexican-American war in 1846-1848, Mexico is defeated and have to surrender Texas
  - - - The colonists held their own agaist the most powerful nation of the day
        
        Americans were fighting in areas they knew well
        
        The British had to cross the Atlantic wich took weeks
        
        They received help from their old enemy France
        
        They liked that the British losed controll over its colonies
        
        They were fighting for liberty against what they viewed as tyranny
        
        1783, the British was defeated
        
        Treaty of Paris(1783) Great Britain gave USA complete independence and right to lands in North America as far west as the Mississippi River
  - - - In 1918 almost a million American troops were in Europe
  - - - In effort to get the free market economy up and running
  - - - written by relatively young, unknown delegate to the Continental Congress, which is Thoms Jefferson