Making of America

• Dates

  1789-1900
• When did America fight for independence from Britain

  1776-1783
• What was the USA

  Republic (without King or Queen)
• What was the name for the Rules of America:

  
  

  Constitution (document of rules)
• What was the USA's voting system

  Democracy
• What is a democracy?

  Rule by the people
• What were the requirements to vote initially in America:

  
  

  White

  Male

  Property owning
• What is a federal country:

  
  

  13 original states had their own rules as well
• Define state:

  
  

  Smaller political units which are part of the country of the US
• What were limitations of state laws:

  Could not go against constitution
• How can the Constitution be amended?

  2/3 vote in congress, 3/4 vote by the states
• What does each state send to Congress

  Representatives
• Define President

  the elected head of a republican state.
• When is a president elected

  Every 4 years
• Define territory:

  An area with too few people to have own state or government
• Original 13 states of America:

  
  

  Connecticut

  Delaware

  Georgia

  Maryland

  Massachusetts

  New Hampshire

  New Jersey

  New York

  North Carolina

  Pennsylvania

  South Carolina

  Virginia
• How many more states between 1790 and 1838:

  26 (doubled)
• What did George Washington do in the North West:

  Fought wars with Indians and took their lands
• George Washington


  Commander of the Continental Army, 1st president
• Thomas Jefferson


  3rd President of the United States
• What did Thomas Jefferson do:

  Opened up territories in North West and South West for settlement
• What did slaveholders want to do:

  Expand and get more land especially in warm South
• Lousiana Purchase:

  Land purchased from France doubling the size of the U.S. 15 million dollars for 530 acres
• When was the Lousiana Purchase?

  1803
• Slave plantation:

  a large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops that usually involved slave labour.
• In 1820 What % of US exports were cotton: 42%
• Between 1815-1819, How many slaves were sold in South: 100,000
• What did Northern Factories do with the cotton: Turned it into cloth
• What happened to children in slavery

  Became slaves
• What became available in South after 1790: More growing land for cotton
• By 1838 How much cotton was the USA producing: Over 1 million bales, (220,000 tonnes)
• Cotton gin: A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibres, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793
• How much faster was cotton gin

  50x
• By 1838 How many slaves in Southern states: over 2 million
• What did people in the North worry about with slaveholders: Becoming too powerful
• Missouri Compromise: 1820- agreement of an equal number of slave and non-slave states added to America
• 5 civilised tribes (CCCCS)

  Cherokee

  Chickasaw

  Choctaw

  Creek

  Seminole
• What did the Cherokee try to copy: US parliamentary style and structures as well as money
• Indian Removal Act: (1830) the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River (led by Jackson)
• When was Indian Removal Act

  1830