Okay bloggers, what do you say about identifying some key subjects to know for the midterm and the AP Exam.
Please identify the following, and something significant about them:
1. Missouri Compromise
2. Louisiana Purchase
3. Erie Canal
Let's start with those, get a discussion going, and take it from there, okay. Ready, set, blog!
56 comments:
Missouri compromise added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. And it said that any states above 36'30' would be free.
louisana purchase was made by Jefferson from napolean to get the french and spanish out of north america and keep the new country out of trouble
Go work Liz. Also remember that further development of the US territories on the matter of free or slave is essentially tabled until the Compromise of 1850. Consider how much we talked about the compromises leading up to the Civil War, and how the Civil War marked the end of the spirit of compromise.
erie canal provided a route of transportation and trade through the mohawk valley, making Utica a key point at this time in history. It connected buffalo to albany and was much faster than the roadways at the time
Sorry Liz, I meant to say "Good work" not "Go work" as if you needed to worker harder. Obviously, you're blogging, and working.
Dylan--be careful not to confuse Missouri Comp with the Comp of 1850--look at my post above.
Sean--Certainly the Napoleon factor was a big issue. What did the US want out of the Louisiana Purchase? What did we stand to gain, and how was it a win-win situation?
Louisiana Purchase was Jefferson's doing. It doubled the size of the US. The issue with this purchase was that it gave the president so much more power than in the past and called for a open interpretation of the constitution. Before becoming president, Jefferson had preached "word for word" interpretation of the constitution which denied Hamilton's plan to create a national bank.
we gained land that settlers could expand onto and many new sources of raw materials
Sean--I like your point about Utica in your explanation about the Erie Canal.
Dig a bit deeper--what did we say about the canal that made it so special? The growth of Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Buffalo, is an outgrowth of this bigger issue, eh?
We hoped for the French occupation to be decreased.
we also gained a seaport and a major transportation waterway, New Orleans and the mississippi, this allowed trade to flourish
The Erie Canal connected the Northeast to the Midwest and so industry could prosper between the two. Also, didn't the Erie Canal help to start the Second Great Awakening because the large cities which came about near the canal made suitable audiences?
Dylan was talking about the Louisiana Purchase, obviously. And from a foreign affairs standpoint, he is certainly right.
Consider the fact that the US hoped to gain control of the Miss. River.
i like derick's expalanation about the purchase, thanks.
could anybody tell me about congregationism
I like dericks too...shows once again Jefforsons hipocracy.
Okay, timeout. Let's introduce some new review terms.
4. Popular Sovereignty (its relation to the free-state/slave-state issue
5. The New England Colonial Economy
6. Trancendentalism
Ready, set, go.
the miss. river ran between many states which lead to better transportation of goods, therefore trade flourished.
BTW, good work Ty on the Second Great Awakening pick up!
popular sovereignty was where the states felt that they should be able to choose whether or not they wanted to be slave or free based on the people's decision
Transcendentalists' believed the ideal spiritual and physical state of being could only be aquired through moral intellegence, not religions.
The Transcendentalists were people who strongly opposed large institutions. They favored the individual and the ability to discover oneself. Emerson was an important figure for this group. An important part of the Transcendentalists was nature. These guys loved vegatables...i mean they were practically obsessed with them! VEGETABLES MAN!
Wasn't popular sovereignty in Bleeding Kansas? because they couldn't decide whether to make it slave or free
Popular soveriegnty didnt work as well as planned becuase many slave owner farmers moved to these new states and territories inorder to make them a slave state.
exactly liz the people from(nebraska?) were crossing into kansas and supporting the slave opinion and the kansas farmers didn't want this so the had an old-fashioned beat-down
Were the trancendentalist's the ones that were mainly from universities? or was that another of those groups from that time.
Pop. Sovereignty was used in the Comp. of 1850. California would become free but Utah and New Mexico (previously part of the MExican Cession) could decide whether to be slave or free.
popular sovereignty was just another example of compromise
Colonial economy depended on tobacco farming in the south. This is where the transition from indentured servents to slaves can be found.
what about congregationism-I couldn't find it in R.Bk. or stupid kelley
There was also that group, the Emigrant Aid Society, which funded the transportation of anti-slavery settlers to Kansas where they would settle.
so was the 3/5 comp. mike!
is there an essay on this test?
did congregationism have something to do with like the puritans or one of those groups and how they formed congregations, was there seperation of powers between church and state for these groups
The pro-slavery Missourians didn't want to be surrounded completely by free states so some of them settled in Kansas to prevent that from happening.
there was also the Great Compromise which established the two house legislature, there was proportional representation in the HOR-more people more reps., and in the senate- there was an equal # per state
Okay, nobody wants to talk about the New England colonial economy. Interesting. . .
Sean took a shot at it--it does industrialize, eventually . . . but before that?
at first fur and fish was really important to New England's economy, but then it developed into a trading system across the Atlantic that touched England, the Wine Islands, West Africa, the Caribbean, the Southern colonies, and New England. and New Eng. became permenantly involved in the slave trade. and the merchant class was developed.
Doesn't the New England Colonial economy focus mainly on merchants and trade abroad?
TEST FORMAT:
Forty Multiple Choice (AP style, five selections to choose the best answer)
Two essays--pick one essay to do from the Pre-Civil War period, and one from the Civil War/Post Civil War period.
Sounds like an excellent intellectual endeavor for a couple hours on a Wednesday morning, no?
I believe congretationism dealt with towns where people gathered in churches. The churches were basically in control. I believe this is extremely early American history.
exams are the sunshine of my love.
give us the essay topics and ill give you intellectualism
thanks derick, appreciate it.
Thanks, C-squared!!!
I do have to walk my dogs soon, but I will leave you with some advice--look over your corrected essays from class, and think about some of the "big" issues that we talked about in class over the course of a couple of periods, like populism and imperialism.
ill walk your dogs...you keep going
Alright Dylan, what questions do you have.
But I do have to log off soon--I have to fulfill my duties as a proper doggy-parent.
populism-wasn't that when the people of the west wanted restoration of the gov't. to the people, unlimited silver coinage, people's train ownership, and graduated income tax's
mr. davis came back for an encore!!!
nothing...i forgot im allergic to dogs, they make me itch alot. Wait one question...signifigance of election of 1876, i thinks thats the one where the south was displeased with the electoral college?
does annybody recall the temperance movement?
Dylan the E. of 1876 was yeah with the dems threatening the republicos with the filibuster and all of the mallarchy
anybody-temperance movement, anybody?
The prohibition movement occurred during the Gilded Age i believe. People (especially Yankees) blamed alcohol for causing the problems of the age. Attacking alcohol led to suffering saloons.
apparently mr.davis has gone in through the out door.
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