notes+continues

=Ben Franklin= =George Washington= =French and Indian war=
 * was born in Boston Massachusets
 * worked with his dad until he could become an apprentice as a printer
 * secretly sent letters to his brother to be printed at his printing press
 * ran away when his brother found out
 * set up his own printing press
 * Mrs. Silens Dogood, name created so he could publish things in the Newspaper
 * wanted to marry Debra but went to France and she married a man while he was away then the man left her
 * Ben married Debra and had 3 kids
 * inveted bifocals
 * franklin stove
 * founding father of electricity
 * was born February 22,1732, Westmoreland Virginia
 * was a genuine gentlemen and had good manners
 * spent most of his childhood on his families estate on Popes creek on the Potomac River
 * His fater hied in 1743, soon after his fathers death George went to go live with his half brother Lawrence (was like a father to him)
 * during French and Indian war, George Washington was forced to surrender and bring his troops back to Williamsburg
 * Married Martha Dandrige Curtis, wealthy and attractive
 * very depressed man
 * high point in his life was Revolutionary war
 * victory and Yorktown
 * Became president, and because he was liked so much was reelected 4 more times
 * peace treaty with England

=Navigation acts= =Union plan= =Sons of liberty= =Intolorable acts=
 * a seven year war between the British and France
 * treaty of Paris
 * George Washington young military man, loses all his battles
 * British wins the war
 * England owns most of North America
 * Proclamation of 1773, says no colonists expansion towards the west
 * Called the French and Indian war by the us because we fought France and Indians
 * created to protect England
 * controls trade in America
 * England buys things cheap
 * colonies can't make clothes, iron, steel, ect.
 * colonists set up a black market with the Dutch and sell things for more
 * 13 colonies, all very different
 * some stronger relationships with England
 * Ben Franklin wanted to form regional governments
 * Easier for England and for all the colonies
 * better trade, saftey, ect.
 * a group of shopkeepers and workers got together to oppose the stamp act
 * John Gill (newspaper guy)
 * stamp act: direct tax on people for wills, bills of sale, playing cards, paper, tea
 * get a dummy of Andrew Oliver the tax man and hung it in a tree
 * burned down his house and property
 * Boston Massacre: March 5, 1770. five people died 4 on spot 1 afterwards, 6 wounded
 * fight over a wig, from shopkeepers point of view
 * people come to rescue a boy hit by a soldier
 * soldiers given unloaded guns to protect from riot
 * people start throwing snowballs at soldiers
 * soldiers load guns to threaten people
 * first casulty was Crispus, who swung with a club missed and was shot
 * soldiers began shooting
 * court held for the soldiers, some found guilty of manslaughter, others not guilty
 * those guilty were put in jail for 2 days then shiped back to England

= = =Common Sense= =Lexington and Concord=
 * Port of Boston closed so no more money for Boston
 * Quebec act: Catholics given religious freedom
 * Quartering act: soldiers could live where ever they want
 * Administration of injustice acts: gave royal goverment power to move trial
 * Tom Paine, wrote a pamphlet about breaking away from England
 * kind of a loser in life
 * printed in January of 1776
 * 20% of the people in America want to break away
 * 80% want to stay with England
 * large convention to vote on what the colonies want to do
 * Virginia only voting to break away
 * British find out that leaders are meeting in Concord
 * 700 British soldiers
 * they meet a militia of 75 colonists in Lexington
 * 8 colonists killed 10 wounded
 * no soldiers hurt
 * British find nothing
 * start getting in fights with colonists along the way back
 * 273 British soldiers killed
 * 94 colinists

=Enlightenment= =Declaration of Independence= =Revolutionary War= = = =Valley Forge= =Articles of Confederation= =Shays Rebellion= = = =Constitutional Convention=
 * Started in Europe came over to America in 1700's
 * questioned everything
 * scientists (Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin)
 * people allowed to own their land and things
 * a document written to declare our independence from England
 * continental congress met to disscuss the continents fate
 * John Adams, Ben Franklin, Livingston, Jefferson, Sherman
 * Thomas Jefferson wrote it
 * released on July 2nd
 * a letter to the king
 * rich people are loyalists, poor people are revolutionaries
 * colonists lose lots of battles at first
 * first battle won: Trenton fought on Christmas day against German Hessians
 * British want to split the colonists in half, George Washington in the North, others in the south
 * Colonists winning a bunch of the battles in the north now
 * colonists win at Saratoga, French begin to help
 * December 1777 form a camp at valley forge
 * sleep in tents
 * starving
 * Baron Von Stuban helps train the men
 * very very cold
 * people dieing of cold and hunger
 * people want to leave
 * a large group try to leave, Washington catches them, lines up the leaders and has the leaders friends shoot them
 * people are trained constantly
 * finally have an army
 * started being written same time as Decleration of Independence
 * took 4 years to write
 * 13 statements of how the country would be ran
 * 13 states have their own state governments but all partially controlled by a main central government
 * .Confederation: more states rights, less central government
 * 2: each states retains rights not given to central government
 * 4: freedome of movement, can travel from state to state freely
 * 5: one vote for each state
 * 8: US expenitures paid by state legislatures based on property values
 * 11: 9 states agree for admitting a new state, Canada pre-approved
 * 12: Confederation assumes prior war debt
 * 13: Articles can only by altered by unanimous state agreemen
 * Daniel Shay: was a soldier who fought for free
 * started a farm and owes money to poeple
 * someone comes to take his stuff to pay for his debt
 * starts a rebellion, begin burning banks houses to destroy records of debt
 * state government can't stop them, ask government for weapons
 * create own private army, private army takes weapons from a government building and shoots cannons into shays army
 * shays army scatters and 1000 men arrested
 * hang 2 men, everyone else is released and Shay is released
 * country needs a new government
 * some people want to get rid of the Articles altogether
 * some just want to change it a little
 * James Madeson wanted a completely new government
 * held in Independence Hall
 * 55 delegates
 * 1st. Virginia plan: supported by large states, not by small states
 * 3 houses of legislature
 * lower house members is chosen by states
 * lower house chooses the higher house members
 * number of delegates chosen by state population
 * Executive branch enforces the legislature
 * Judiciary branch country courts
 * Judiciary and Executive branches can veto or say no to an idea
 * New Jersey Plan: small states like
 * plan said congress can tax and enforce taxes
 * more then one Executive like a group of leaders each serve 1 term
 * Judiciary branch elected by Executive
 * Great comprimise, Connecticut compromise: said one house is by population other house by 1 vote only
 * how are government is run today

Slavery
=Jays Treaty= =War of 1812= =National Bank= =Whiskey Rebellion= =Luisiana Purchase= =Comprimis of 1850= =Underground Railroad= =Pearl incident= =Secession= =Conferate states of America= =Anaconda Plan= =Civil war= =Homesteading= =Immigration/Ellis Island= = =
 * southern states wanted slaves to count as population but not taxation
 * compromise is they count as 3/5 a person for both population and taxation
 * north didn't want slavery at all
 * in 20 years there will be no more slaves sold
 * sent to get a treaty with Great Britan about the conflict still going on
 * wanted all British troops gone
 * wanted border between U.S. and Canada
 * wanted British to stop catching U.S. ships
 * British agreed to everything
 * war against Great Britin
 * last war to settle independence
 * Canada fought against us
 * We win
 * country needs national bank so small banks dont go bankrupt and so people don't lose money
 * approved on by Adams, when he goes out of office no more national bank
 * small banks not working people getting angry
 * start another national bank, starts pushing small banks out of business
 * national bank ended again and sold to people
 * Hamilton started a tax of 25% on corn
 * farmers grow corn to make whiskey
 * whiskey is worth more then corn
 * farmers start rebellion against government because of tax on whiskey
 * tar and feather tax collecter and burn his house down
 * soldiers go to stop a large riot and when they showed up everyone was gone back to their houses except 75 men who were arrested then later released
 * France owns New Orleans port and wont allow US farmers to use it
 * USA offers 8,000,000 to buy New Orleans
 * France declines and offers to sell all the area in North America for 15,000,000
 * US agrees and sends Lewis and Clark to go explore the west
 * California becomes a free state even though it was mostly south of the line
 * Utah and New Mexico territories
 * Utah becomes slave state
 * Texas gives up land but is paid and helps pay for war
 * DC abolishes slave trade
 * south creates Fugitive slave act, anyone who doesnt arest a run away slave has to pay a fine
 * Canada abolishes slavery
 * slaves find out and begin running away to Canada
 * slaves travel at night and go from house to house
 * 10 to 20 miles a night
 * during the day, slaves would hide in barns or houses of abolishionist
 * Harriot Tubman, "conductor" on the underground railroad
 * black woman who would pretend to be a slave then smuggle out small groups of people
 * traveled the trail 14 times
 * A guy wants to free a huge number of slaves
 * pays a man to haul out a huge group of slaves on his ship
 * ship gets caught up in a bay with no wind
 * people find out about it and send a boat to find them
 * find the ship and catch all the slaves
 * 70 slaves are sold further south
 * the 3 men arrested, 1 gets off, the other 2 are found guilty and fined but have no money so are thrown in jail and 4 years later pardoned by the president
 * The south thinks Lincoln will get rid of slavery
 * South Carolina decides to leave the country because of states rights
 * the other southern states leave also
 * Lincoln never planned to ban slavery
 * the 11 states that seceded
 * Jefferson Davis became the president
 * not really a country but more a mass of individual states with their own laws
 * began claiming all the forts and federal property in the south
 * began trying to get military leaders, several change sides
 * Lincoln states that if they allow 1 state to leave the country then other states will think they can leave
 * South soldiers lay seige to Fort Sumter
 * Lincoln sends food the South stops the ships and fires apon the fort
 * South starts the war so Lincoln sends troops
 * North loses the Fort
 * plan proposed to stop the South
 * first blockade the Southern ports
 * send 80 thousand men to travel down the Mississippi and split the South in half
 * plan worked
 * First battle of Bull Run, happened right outside Washington D.C.
 * The South heads up to take control of the Capitol
 * Big battle South gets reinforcements and charges after the North but stops to regroup and the North gets ready to defend Washington
 * South wins the first battle
 * Lincoln fires his first two generals
 * Brings in General Grant who leads the soldiers
 * very bloody war
 * close quaters combat
 * 1863, Lincoln decides to free the slaves
 * whenever Northern armies capture slaves they set the free
 * Emancipation Proclamation, said by Lincoln, saying that all slaves in the SOUTH are free
 * act of 1862 provided land to people who paid for a registration fee
 * any adult citizen can get it
 * agree to live on it for 5 years at which time they recieve a deed to the land
 * had to improve the land
 * 1935, President Rosevelt took back to the land
 * meaning: people moving from one place to another legally
 * people from Russia, England, Ireland, southern Europe
 * used ellis Island as a check point
 * if you were sick you didn't go into the country
 * people were asked 20 questions
 * was once a military base
 * people were placed in the country based on the answers to the questions