1. FINAL
Tomorrow!

2. 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

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

4. Expansion westward was a right
Northwest Ordinance
Louisiana Purchase
Manifest Destiny

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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