Colonial America Timeline- Ap Us Hist

1. Early 1600s – English colonies on Atlantic coastline

2. 1763 – English take control of Canada

3. 1775-83 – American colonies rebelled against England and become the USA. Atlantic to Mississippi River

4. 1789- Constitution created

5. 1803 – Jerrerson: Louisiana from Frace added to the USA – Mississippi to the Rocky Mts. 100% increase

6. 1800-1890 – Native Americans removed from valuable land and placed on reservations. 1860s – Alaska is acquired. They were more :pests than people”

7. 1865 – Homestead Act – US gov’t gives land to anyone who will farm it. IMMIGRATION LAWS DON’T EXIST UNTIL THE EARLY 1900s – Anyone can come.

8. 1860s – Rockefeller begins his CONSOLODATION OF THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY.

Carnegie starts CONSOLODATION OF STEEL INDUSTRY

HARRIMAN AND VANDERBUILT CONSOLODATE THE RAILROADS

9. 1890 – US government declares “frontier closed”

American Civil War

-2nd worst war in US History: Per capita deaths

- Who is upset and about What?

-Begins in 1789: US Constitution permitted slavery. And slaves could be counted when determining the number of representatives in House of Representatives.

-North and Western States expand: requiring no slaves

-industrial lands

-lots of space

South expands its one crop economy and expands westward. 2/3rds of whites in the South have no slaves.

-Cotton, sugar cane, tobacco

-One crop-economy in South

Was there a strong movement in the North to abolish slavery? NO!

- There were minority organizations that wished to free slaves

-Northern workers feared that if the laves were free, they’d come north and work in factories for less than whites

1860 Elections- South feared that a Republican Party victory would restrict the movement of slavery further West. Lincoln, as a republican is eventually 11 southern states secede from the USA.

Lincoln calls on the N. States to raise armies to bring the south back into USA.

1. Because most of the fighting is in the South,...