FINAL Tomorrow!

American Character and Belief System Creation of democratic principles in America diversity of religions, even though some were not tolerant examples of written documents setting up governments elected legislative bodies

Challenging authority rebellions against an "unjust" government speaking out against religious authority

Expansion westward was a right Northwest Ordinance Louisiana Purchase Manifest Destiny

Compromise was necessary to deal with conflict Northwest ordinance Missouri Compromise Compromise of 1850 Compromise of 1877

Business, Labor, and Reform From mercantilism to capitalism; from a collection of colonies controlled by the policies of the mother country to a nation that grew from the innovations and inventions of individuals and the wealth of select industries A give and take between the industrial North with its money, banks, industry, and immigrant labor and the agricultural South with its tobacco, cotton, and slave labor

Immigration From a nation overwhelmingly settled by those from the British Isles (with lots of slaves) to a nation diversified by millions of "new immigrants" British Irish and German in the mid-1800s Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 New immigrants from SE Europe from the 1880s through early 1900s: Ellis Island and the backlash against the new immigrants

The Minority Experience Native Americans Spanish exploitation and the Pueblo Revolt French trade English settlement and constant removal westward: Trail of Tears; the impact of the Transcontinental RR, Homestead Act, and killing of the buffalo

African Americans The institution of slavery: reality Abolition movement: women and moral sin Reconstruction policies, successes and failures post-Reconstruction South; segregation (Jim Crow and Plessy) and the debate between Booker T. and WEB