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American Consolidation and Expansion - Coggle Diagram
American Consolidation and Expansion
Early settlers before 1850
Mountain Men 1820s
First Farmers 1830-40s
Mormons 1830-40s
Gold Miners 1849
Factors to why people moved west before 1850
Land Hunger (Land was cheap in the west)
Economic Depression
Overcrowding
Mormons Persecution
Manifest Destiny
Properganda
The Mormons
Beliefs - Polygamy,No ownership of land, Chosen by god, Book of Mormon
Kirtland- The bank collapsed and mormons lost money
Missouri- Danites secret army
Nauvoo- Declared polygamy and Joseph Smith murdered
Brigham Young- Excellent organisation help the Mormons to salt lake city.
Difference between the North and the south in the American civil war
North
Based on Industry
Big cities undergoing rapid urbanisation
Ecomony based on Free labor
No Slaves
South
Based on Agriculture
Mainly Rural
Slaves
The Missouri Compromise
The compromise of 1850 meant that california became a free state
Kansas Nebraska Act, 1854
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincon was a member of the Anti-Slavery republic
Southern states feared Abraham Lincoln
Southern states felt they had the right to leaves the USA
Abraham Lincoln said they didn't have the right to leave and the cause the Civil war
American Civil War
Nat Turners Rebellion, 1831
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book
‘Uncle Tom’s cabin’, 1852
John Brown’s raid on Harper’s
Ferry, 1859
Lincoln’s election as President,
1860
The secession of North
Carolina, 1860
Election of Jefferson Davis,
Feb 1861
The attack on Fort Sumter,
April 1861
The North mainly benefited from the war
Industry making the railroad and industry did well
Factory owners profited from the war
Ordinary people suffered
The south Suffered
War destroyed the railroad
cotton fell from 4 million bales to 300,000 baleC
Slaves freed
Reconstruction Era 1866-77
The south became part of the Union
States had to agree to laws
The Carpetbaggers
1877 many troop left the south and Civil right laws were reversed
Free slave Acts
Emancipation Proclamation – 1863
Civil Rights Act - 1866
14th Amendment - 1868
Civil Rights Act – 1870 - reinforced 1866 Act
15th Amendment – Blacks could vote
BUT – Black codes in the South reduced Black rights
and kept them separate from whites
Homesteaders
They were Ex-slaves, Ex-soldiers families moving west for more land
Free land for people who farmed as well as the Rail road
There was poor weather, dangerous Indians and cowboys
Solutions to problems were the Sodbuster, wind pump, Barbed wire
Women – medical care, taught children, wanted law and order to be better but life was lonely and hard due to isolation
Iose of the plains in 1890s
Cycle of conflict
Plain wars
Sand Creek, Fetterman
Massacre, (Red Cloud’s
War), Big Horn, Wounded
Knee
Exterminators
Reservations
Destruction of the Buffalo
Treaties
Permanent Indian Frontier 1832
1st Fort Laramie Treaty 1851
Medicine Lodge Treaty 1867
2nd Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
Dawes General Allotment Act
1887
HUMANITARIANS VS.
EXTERMINATORS?
Humanitarians,
(Negotiators)
‘Kill the Indian and
save the man’
Indians could become good Christian farmers
Exterminators : The only good Indian is a dead indian
Indians Wars
Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
Fetterman Massacre (1866)
The Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
The Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)