Us History Final Notes

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History Final Notes

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1600’s Expansion

Motives – Conquest, Trade, and Christianity

Conquest – territorial gain for the country or crown, competition between empires

Trade – natural resources like gold, silver, cotton corn etc. markets between natives, import export.

Christianity- converting natives, esp. French and Spanish colonists, Protestants wanted to stop Catholicism form spreading

Spanish – coercive in conquest, erase native culture, good army, interested in precious metals, exploitative in labor.

French – not strong army, independent travelers, adaptive approach, symbolic in nature, diplomacy with natives, traded fur,

English – creating settlements, recreate England, goal was to stay and expand, long term and self sustaining.

1790- 1860

Motives – Acquisition through warfare and diplomacy, acquire, settle, and incorporate western lands

Push- land, poverty, persecution, economic uncertainty, (Ex. Irish Mormon)

Pull- land, markets, mobility, nationalism, western agriculture, and mobility represented freedom, opportunity to become rich

Manifest Destiny – belief that god wanted Americans to move westward to colonize, educate and bring the uncivilized darkness into light by lady liberty.

Patterns

Northwest – right after independence of America, large ethnic communities, mostly whites, land and agriculture.

Deep South – Alabama, Mississippi, cotton, slaves, yeoman farmers, plantations and big families

West – mostly 1840’s, owned by Spanish, free African Americans.

2. Native American Responses – Assimilation, relocation, resistance 10% assimilated

Political Assimilation – petitions and developed relations with government through councils and assemblies, makes laws, courts, diplomacy, created us. Style govt.

Economic Assimilation – Trade Market Economy, Cherokee and US., land ownership is individualistic, agriculture of cotton flax, manufacturing domesticly sold,

Cultural Assimilation – creation of churches,...