GCSE OCR HISTORY B: THE MAKING OF AMERICA

• 1789-1900


  Dates
• 1776-1783


  When did America fight for independence from Britain
• Republic (without King or Queen)


  What was the USA
• Constitution (document of rules)


  What was the name for the Rules of America
• Democracy


  What was the USA's voting system
• Rule by the people

  What is a democracy?
• White

  Male

  Property owning


  What were the requirements to vote initially in America
• 13 original states had their own rules as well


  What is a federal country
• Smaller political units which are part of the country of the US


  Define state
• Could not go against constitution


  What were limitations of state laws
• 2/3 vote in congress, 3/4 vote by the states


  How can the Constitution be amended?
• Representitives


  What does each state send to Congress
• the elected head of a republican state.

  Define President
• Every 4 years


  When is a president elected
• An area with too few people to have own state or government


  Define territory
• Connecticut

  Delaware

  Georgia

  Maryland

  Massachusetts

  New Hampshire

  New Jersey

  New York

  North Carolina

  Pennsylvania

  South Carolina

  Virginia


  Original 13states of America
• 26 (doubled)


  How many more states between 1790 and 1838
• Fought wars with Indians and took their lands

  What did George Washington do in the North West
• Commander of the Continental Army, 1st president


  George Washington
• 3rd President of the United States


  Thomas Jefferson
• Opened up territories in North West and South West for settlement

  What did Thomas Jefferson do
• Expand and get more land especially in warm South


  What did slaveholders want to do
• Land purchased from France doubling the size of the U.S. 15 million dollars for 530 Ha


  Lousiana Purchase
• 1803


  When was the Lousiana Purchase?
• a large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops that usually involved slave labour.


  Slave plantation
• 42%


  In 1820 What % of US exports were cotton
• 100,000


  Between 1815-1819, How many slaves were sold in South
• Turned it into cloth

  What did Northern Factories do with the cotton
• Became slaves


  What happened to children in slavery
• More growing land for cotton


  What became available in South after 1790
• Over 1 million bales, (220,000 tonnes)


  By 1838 How much cotton was the USA producing
• A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibres, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793


  Cotton gin
• 50x


  How much faster was cotton gin
• over 2 million


  By 1838 How many slaves in Southern states
• Becoming too powerfil

  What did people in the North worry about with slaveholders
• 1820- agreement of an equal number of slave and non-slave states added to America


  Missouri Compromise
• Cherokee

  Chickasaw

  Choctaw

  Creek

  Seminole


  5 civilised tribes (CCCCS)
• US parliamentary style and structures as well as money


  What did the Cherokee try to copy
• (1830) the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River (led by Jackson)


  Indian Removal Act
• 1830


  When was Indian Removal Act