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NORTH AMERICA IN THE 19TH CENTURY - Coggle Diagram
NORTH AMERICA IN THE 19TH CENTURY
IN THE UNITED STATES, THE 19TH CENTURY WAS A
TIME OF PROGRESS AND CHANGE
, IN FACT:
THE
TELEGRAPH
MADE
INSTANT COMMUNICATION
POSSIBLE
RAILWAYS
SHORTENED THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STATES
THE
NEWSPAPERS
WERE WIDELY
AVAILABLE
TO EVERYONE AT A COST OF
A PENNY
AS THE BORDER PUSHED WEST,
IMMIGRANTS
CAME TO THE CITIES IN INCREASING NUMBERS, AND
MORE STATES JOINED THE UNION
SLAVERY
HAS BEEN PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY
SINCE 1619
IN
1860
FOUR MILLION
AMERICANS WERE
SLAVES
IN
NOTHERN STATES
SLAVERY HAS NEVER BEEN EXTENDED, AND IT WAS
ABOLISHED BY 1804
THE SLAVES WHO FREED THEMSELVES, ESCAPING TO THE NORTH, DEDICATED THEIR LIVES TO ENDING SLAVERY, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
MOREOVER,
HARRIET TUBMAN
, A FORMER SLAVE, HELPED OVER 300 ENSLAVED PEOPLE TO FREEDOM THROUGH THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
A NETWORK OF SAFE-HOUSES AND HIDEOUTS THAT SLAVES USED TO ESCAP TO NOTHERN STATES AND CANADA
IN 1852, HAD A VERY IMPORTANT INFLUENCE ON THE SOCIETY THE ANTI-SLAVERY NOVEL ''
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
'' BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
WHICH WAS NEVER CONSIDERED A GREAT LITERATURE, BUT DREW INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION TO THE HORRORS OF THE SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
AND CONVERTED READERS TO THE ABOLITIONIST CAUSE
MOST EARLY EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS WOULD NEVER HAVE SURVIVED NORTH AMERICA'S HARSH WINTERS WITHOUT THE HELP THAT THEY RECEIVED FROM
NATIVE PEOPLE
IN RETURN,
NATIVES WERE DEVASTATED
BY DISEASES BROUGHT BY EUROPEANS
IN THE UNITED STATES, THE
INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
, RESULTED IN EASTERN
NATIVES
BEING
FORCED FROM THEIR HOMES
AND DRIVEN WEST OF THE
MISSISSIPI RIVER
TO MAKE WAY FOR WHITE SETTLERS
IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY THERE WERE MASSACES OF NATIVE PEOPLE BY THE UNITED STATES ARMY
THE SUPERIOR NUMBERS AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNITED STAES ARMY PROVED TOO STRONG, SO THE NATIVE PEOPLE HAD TO ACCEPT DEFEAT
BY 1900, THE NATIVE POPULATION OF AMERICA HAD BEEN REDUCED JUST A FEW YEARS BEFORE THE
DAWES GENERAL ALLOTMENT ACT
WHICH ESTABLISHED A SYSTEM OF
RESERVATIONS
, WHICH WERE ALLOCATIONS OF LAND RESERVED FOR NATIVE PEOPLES
AS THE COUNTRY EXPANDED TO INCLUDE NEW STATES, THE
SOUTHERN STATES
THAT
DEPENDED
ON
LARGE-SCALE AGRICOLTURE
AND
SLAVE LABOUR
, SAW THEIR
POWER
IN THE UNION
DECREASE
THE SOUTHERN STATES FEARED THAT
ABOLITIONIST IN THE NORTH
WOULD PUT AN
END
TO
SLAVE OWNERSHIP,
ON WHICH THEIR ECONOMY DEPENDED
THE ELECTION OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
IN 1860, FRUSTATED THE SOUTHERN STATES FURTHER BECAUSE HE WAS KNOW FOR HIS
ANTI-SLAVERY VIEWS
A MONTH AFTER LINCOLN'S ELECTION,
SOUTH CAROLINA
SEPARATED FROM THE UNION AND IN THE FOLLOWING 10 MONTHS IT
WAS JOINED BY 10 MORE STATES
THESE STATES CALLED THEMSELVES THE
CONFEDERACY
IN
1861
THE
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
STARTED
AND IN
1863
LINCOLN ISSUED THE
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
, WHICH
ABOLISHED SLAVERY
AFTER THAT, MANY FREED SLAVES JOINED THE UNION ARMY
IN APRIL OF 1865, THE SOUTHERN GENERAL ROBERT LEE SURRENDERED, ENDING THE WAR
LESS THEN A WEEK AFTERWARD, LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED
THE CIVIL WAR WAS THE MOST VIOLENT IN THE US HISTORY, KILLING MORE THAN 850,000 AMERICANS