Colonial Period in the history of America

Regional variety
New England: English Protestants (Massachusets,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire) Boston
(imm. From Canada, Ireland, Italy) education

Middle Atlantic: New York, Pennsylvania – Quakers,

Delaware, Maryland – Catholics (Dutch imm.) heavy
industry

The South: English protestants – Virginia, Georgia, N

and S. Carolina, Arkansas = the Confederate states.

By 1733 13 original states

1607 – Jamestown, Virginia
1620 – Plymouth, Massachusetts Mayflower Pilgrims
1636 – Roger Williams Rhode Island
+ Georgia, Maryland, N/ S Carolina

18c. wars w/France for lands in Canada, Louisiana

1763 – end of 7 Years War – PROBLEM OF MONEY
COSTS  TAXATION
“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION” –
taxes removed expt TEA TAX

1773 Boston Tea Party

1774 – 1st Continental Congress (Philadelphia, Pens. )
1775 – 2st Continental Congress, Continental Army
1775/19/04 – British soldiers start a war against rebels in
Lexington, Mass.
July, 4th, 1776 – Declaration of Independence
1777 – Battle of Saratoga, NY
1783 – Treaty of Paris
1775-1783 – War for Independence // American
Revolution
1787 – Constitutional Convention

George Washington 1st

Tomas Jefferson 3rd
And the FOUNDING FATHERS
1787 – 1791 Constitution and Bill of Rights
1791 – Bill of Rights, 1st 10 amendments

New lands acquisition: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,

Oregon, Missouri. Etc.
1803 Louisiana purchased from France (war funding)
1805-1867 Alaska (Russia),
1821, 1846-1848, 1853 – wars with Mexico: Texas,
California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New
Mexico
New lands had to choose between the laws of the North of
the South (slavery)
1849 Gold Rush California, Sacramento
Wild life, fortyniners, the rule of the strongest, jeans,
miners, service companies.
1825 – Erie canal: Hudson river – the Great lakes –
Mississippi
1850es – 1869 – transcontinental railroad

CIVIL WAR 1861 – 1865

Slavery in new territories?
1774-1865 – abolitionists: puritans of the North
The South: economic development impossible without
slaves
1812 – British-American war: slave trade banned in
Britain since 1807
1860es – Parties on slavery question: Democratic South,
Republican North, Western lands - ?
1861 – Abraham Lincoln, against slavery
1861 – Democrats left the new president and the USA
10 Confederate States (to secede condeferacy)
Confederated States of America (Richmond)
President Jefferson Davis
Lincoln starts military actions to protect the Union of
States
April, 12th, 1861 – 1st battle at Fort Sumter
1863 – slavery abolished by Congress
1863 – Gettysburg Battle (Pens.) 1st big loss of the Dixie
April, 9th, 1865 – end of war, Appotomax
April, 14th, 1865 – Lincoln shot by Wilkes Booth
Civil War 1861-1865 The North The South
Population 22 mln 9 mln
(including 4mln
slaves)
President Abraham Jefferson Davis
Lincoln
Generals George Robert Lee,
McClellan, Thomas
Ulysses Grant, Jackson
William
Sherman
Reasons of results Money, British support
 weapons from for cotton;
industry; Ruined
Stronger economy
economy
Results 1863 – slavery abolished by
Congress;

1865-1877 period of 1866 - 13-14th amendments to

RECONSTRUCTION Constitution;

New agricultural order: farming, ranching,

1862 Homestead Act - after 5 years of land use anyone
becomes the land owner.

Native Population Issues

1860s-1880s – reservations for Indians

Urban Life and Immigration Issues

Tenements, slums, trams
Labor unions
Immigration limits since 1921
Since 1906 pres. Theodore Roosevelt starts social
programs

Extraterritorial issues
1895 – Annexation of Hawaii Islands
1898 – war with Spain for Cuba, Puerto Rico, Phillipine
Islands, Guam
1850-1870es-1909-1914 – Construction of Panama Canal
1876 – the USA 100 years anniversary: Philadelphia
International Exhibition.
World War I
1912 – Woodrow Wilson
1915 – Lusitania liner
1917 – American supply ships sunk by Germany
04/1917 – the USA declares war, 3 mln ppl, General
Pershing
1918 Woodrow Wilson “war without victory”: 14 points
plan to create the LEAGUE of NATIONS
 the LEAGUE of NATIONS is organized in Europe
without the US participation.

The Roaring 20es: flourishing economic and cultural life

The Great Depression: overcredited economy, stock
markets
Theodore Roosevelts plan
Brain Trust
Alphabetic Agencies

World War II: reasons for participation, role, results

The USA in WWII during1939-1941-1945
Lend-Lease plan
The Manhattan Project

The Cold War era

Extraterritorial wars 1945-2010s: Korea, Vietnam, Iraq
From wars with communism to wars with terrorism.
Globalization and mass culture in the 21st c.