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Geschichte der USA
Thomas Jefferson
In 1803 Napoleon had
enough of the New World
after some heavy fighting in
Haiti and a war with Britain
again on the way. He offered
all of Louisiana to the
startled Americans for the
ridiculously low price of $ 16
million.
Boqueto de Woiseri, 1803
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Battle of New Orleans, 1815
Andrew Jackson
The Second War of American Independence
Manifest Destiny
Pacific
John Gast, 1872
The Rockies
Hudson River
Oregon Trail
1st transcontinental railroad, 1869
Coast-to-coast telegraph line, 1861
Wild Indians
wooden rail fences
settlers
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Currier & Ives print, 1869
•1862 Pacific Railroad Act
•Union Pacific (Irish immigrants)
•Central Pacific (Chinese)
•May 10, 1869
•Up to ten miles a day
•1865: total of 35,000 miles of
railroads
•1900: 260,000 miles.
Through line New York – San Francisco
Currier & Ives print, 1884
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1 black men and women pick cotton
7 sugar cane field
2 cotton is transferred to large baskets 8 sugar cane turned into sugar
3 baskets are dumped into wagons
9 litograph from 1884
4 cotton is baled and marked
Thirteen amendment ended slavery
5 shipped out on riverboats
in 1865
6 overseer
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Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi
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Battle of Antietam, Sept 1862
Lee‘s plan was to split
Maryland off from the Union,
take Washington D.C. and
force the U.S. to accept the
Confederacy an an
independent nation. A solider
from Indiana stumbled on a
copy of Lee‘s plans,however.
Became the bloodiest single
day of fighting in the Civil War,
some 21,000 soldiers being
killed or wounded.
General G.B.Mc Clellan General Robert E. Lee
The destruction of Atlanta, Georgio
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Atlanta was the most
important railroad center and
manuacturing city in the
South. It was of vital
importance to the
Confederacy.
The city was surrounded by
heavy fortifications some 12
miles in length.
General William T.Sherman
Reconstruction
Romeo (Seward): "Courage, man; the hurt can not be much."
Mercutio (Johnson): "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door;
but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow and you shall find me a grave
man. I am pepper'd, I warrant, for this world:--A plague o' both your Houses."
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Johnson (Mercutio) has been fatally
stabbed by two Congressional acts,
the "Supreme Court Bill" and
"Stanton Reinstated." Secretary of
State William Seward (Romeo), a
supporter of the president's policies,
leans over to encourage his dying
friend. Johnson bitterly wishes a
plague on both houses (of
Congress). In the background, in
front of the Capitol, are (left to
right): Secretary of War Edwin
Stanton, General Ulysses S. Grant,
and Senator Henry Wilson,
chairman of the Senate Military
Affairs Committee.
In December 1865, the Republican
Congress rejected President
Johnson's lenient plan for the
reconstruction of the former
Confederate states within the
Union. Over the next several
months, Johnson vetoed
Congressional legislation which
sought to ensure the basic civil
rights of black Americans. In the
Congressional elections of
November 1866, Republicans won a
majority large enough to override
any presidential vetoes, and in 1867
began enacting their own
Reconstruction program, which
relied on enforcement by the federal
army and federal courts.
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Custer‘s Last Stand, Battle at the Little Big Horn
River on June 25, 1876.
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In the spring and summer of 1876 the United States Government launched a military campaign
upon a portion of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, who refused to live within the boundaries of
the Great Sioux Reservation. They chose to continue their traditional nomadic way of life. The
campaign was initiated when a Government ultimatum to return to the Great Sioux Reservation,
in South Dakota, by January 31st, 1876 was ignored. Gen. Philip Sheridan responded by ordering
three military expeditions to approach the gathering Indians from the East, West and South. The
Army anticipated the off reservation Sioux and Cheyenne would be found in Eastern or South
Central Montana Territory.
As the military threat to these nomadic Sioux and Cheyenne developed, they began to gather for
protection. Sitting Bull became the spiritual and political headman for the gathering village and
remained so while it was together. A few weeks before the Battle, Sitting Bull conducted a Sun
Dance during which he experienced a vision of a great victory over soldiers.
Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and 647 men of the 7th Cavalry, part of the eastern column,
were ordered by General Terry, south along Rosebud Creek. Ahead of the main column, Custer's
6 Crow and 39 Arikara Indian Scouts found the massive village. In the Valley of the Little Bighorn
River, the Seventh Cavalry and their Indian allies attacked the village of 6,000 to 7,000 people, on
June 25th,1876. After the battle was over, 263 7th Cavalrymen lay dead, including George
Custer. 350 7th Cavalrymen survived.
An accurate
of Bull
the Sioux andGeneral
Cheyenne
dead was
not possible, but at least 60 are known
George
A. Custer
Chiefcount
Sitting
to have died. The Great Sioux War was an inevitable conflict similar to other 17th, 18th, and 19th
century conflicts between Indians and non-Indians. All of the participants saw themselves as
perhaps patriots-fighting for their country, land, or way of life.
Sod house, Custer County, Nebraska
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Congress passed the
Homestead Act in 1862.
This federal law allowed
anyone to receive up to
160 acres of public land.
The only requirement
was that the land be
livedd on or cultivated for
five years. After that, and
the payment of a small
fee ($10), the land
belonged to the
homesteader.
Before 1862:
160 acres cost $200, which helped
to cancel the national debt
Squatter‘s rights
Not everybody could
afford £200 – low-paid
laborers
The new states that
emerged – slave or
free?
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Soddies are small houses with walls built of stacked layers of uniformly cut turf.
The individual “bricks” of sod are held together by the thick network of roots that
made preparing fields for planting so very difficult. Sod was cut with special plows,
or by hand, with an ax and/or shovel. Roofs were made from timber, rough or
planed, and covered with more sod. If timber was not available, roofs were built up
with twigs, branches, bushes and straw. Soddies are practical and tough, but
vulnerable. This building at Ash Hollow, Nebraska, was reconstructed in 1967
and is easily damaged when open-range cattle rub against the corners.
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The Monroe Doctrine
We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the
amicable relations existing between the
United States and those powers to
declare that we should consider any
attempt on their part to extend their
system to any portion of this hemisphere
as dangerous to our peace and safety.
With the existing colonies or
dependencies of any European power we
have not interfered and shall not interfere.
But with the Governments who have
declared their independence and
maintained it, and whose independence
we have, on great consideration and on
just principles, acknowledged, we could
not view any interposition for the purpose
of oppressing them, or controlling in any
other manner their destiny, by any
European power in any other light than as
the manifestation of an unfriendly
disposition toward the United States.
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