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Canada -> France invaded in 16-17 century
USA-> Holland invaded in 17th century, England in 17th and 18th century
The Indians are now extinct due to the conquering of the US. South America were
more violent, genocide.
Black people aren’t extinct but they too suffered a lot for 300 years in the US. T
hey were poor, used drugs, were used. The US began with a catastrophe of sufferi
ng. It is something not forgiven but for years they didn’t seem to care.
All but the English got good land with treasure and diamonds, since they weren’t a
strong empire yet and had disagreements.
England and Holland arrived last. Most of the ones who arrived came to trade, we
re farmers, bankers… whop were looking for a new start. The Hispanics on the other
hand came to conquer and become war heroes.
The “Colonial Age”/ colonial history of the US – is when the British came to start ove
r in the US.
The two first cities of the US started in the south of
North America – Virginia and Maryland, by British trade companies. The first boat
came to the River Chessepick in 1607. The reason was to get rid of some of Engla
nd’s population. It was over-populated. People were poor, had no jobs, violent, se
nt to prison, there weren’t enough prisons… etc. Not enough homes, impossible to mak
e money. Aristocrats were sent to mansions, with people who worked for them and
slaves. There was a lot of land in the “new world”. People got hopeful, hope made th
em go. They signed contracts that they will work for 7 years and then be free. T
hey were nothing to England, they felt like the US had more potential for a happ
y life. So more people came and towns were built. Ie. Jamestown. The problem was
that the servants ran away, they didn’t want to stay. Too much land was around th
em and it was the reason to chaos. There was a lot of free land to run away to a
nd they built their own mansions there.
Negroes couldn’t run away because they were “black” to everyone. Born to be slaves, gr
own up as slaves, treated as slaves. They solved the problem of the runaways. Th
at is how slavery and slave trading started to develop. Tobacco began to be a go
od market at that time. It earned a lot of the money (also wood, rice, molasses,
ludigo) .
As time went on in the South a constant hierarchic organization developed and sp
ecial culture called The Horseman/Cavalier Era. םישרפה סותא
There are no cities, since there is no market in the South. 1/3 of the people in
this society are slaves with no rights. They were wishful thinking people who w
anted slaves. Rednecks – some had slaves some didn’t… but they were farmers. They liv
ed thinking someday they’ll have a slave but their price just rose and rose.
It is a whole system connected all together, while as black people do all the bl
ack work. It lasted until the civil war, for over 200 years, Very racist society
.
There were three steps to the settlement.
-vision
-vision collapse
-adaptation/adjustment
The puritans are a cult. Strong religion, they believed they were sinners. (Radi
cal christians) They fought for hierarchy, pleasure... They were protestant but
brought trouble to churches. So they ran away. They lived in the 1700 s and irri
tated everyone. They wanted to be good, do well, be elected, not go to hell. The
y didn t want to show they were rich. They saw themselves as a chosen nation, wh
o were suppose to make a change but they didn t. They believed they were cursed.
They wanted to purify England but it didn t work. The Puritans split. Some were
in England and tried to purify it. Severaties, Penguins – cults inside cults.
The English sent them away to Virginia, only they didn t get to Virginia. “City up
on a hill” William Bradford writes (leader of the cult) “no way to hold them togethe
r”. They believed that God chose them, and they were sinners, God is pissed.
They signed a campaign called “The Mayflower”
They were always angry, disappointed, pessimistic.
God wanted for them to be loyal, not rich. Financially they were always challeng
ed. Mayflower is where it all began. Mayflower signed a contract they will make
a community in the new worls under the ruling of God, which will be an example f
or the whole world. Boston is one of the first cities.
They couldnt use the hierarchy of the rich men, or the hierarchy of the Saint. T
hey beat their children for discipline, but didnt sentence to death.
The Puritan Jeremiah was a day where they suffered and asked for forgiveness. Th
ey made a day for bitterness. They were all saints. And sometimes one of them be
lieved they were a saint whoi talked to God and was called a witch.
Halfway Covenant – boys of all saints were always saints, But then noone would go
to church.
After a few years the religious vision of the first Puritans started to break do
wn. They lived in communities for a few more centuries and tried to live a norma
l life.
They started to work, live a normal life... in the other places some lived in th
e bigger houses, were richer in the south, there was a lot of room, had small vi
llages everywhere.
In Europe 1 of 5 kids lived, there everyone did... Most were farmers in the mark
et agriculture. There started a dynamic economy after difficulties.
In Boston there was a sheep market.
Quackers came... other cults... villages like Pennsylvania, New Jersey started
to develop... New Amsterdam turned into New York. Holland made New Netherlands i
n 1624.
In the north, Puritats, 7 villages.
A social pyramid is madfe that is different from before.
UP
MIDDLE → only MIDDLE
LOW
There are changed in finances which are drastic. A new society is beginning to d
evelop.
Frontier – not negatice or humiliating.
It was a good way to get rid of their children- if they had 6 children or more..
. they would to to the US and stay.
Politics and religion in the villages.
The British Empire relations with the villages.
13 colonies in the north.
In the 18th century Britain becomes an empire and starts ruling the colonies. Fr
ance, Portugal, Spain all lost to Britain in the end. As more time went on, Engl
and became more and more involved in the colonies. She can now rule the trade be
tween America and Europe, and make a lot of money out of it.
England made a law that every shit that arrives the US must be British, which me
ans there are no pirates and robbers.
The trade wasn t free, they wanted to make it stronger. Hats weren t allowed to
be created, they wanted to be the only ones selling stuff and making money. Thin
gs were sold to Britain first and then to other countries. There wasn t trade be
tween the US and other nations... Only by Britain. The country is ruling the tra
de.
Mid 1700 s – start of 1800 s. This made beurocracy and business for Britain and US
A.
Financially, Britain was very strict concerning trade, due to the 3 laws. The vi
llagers had to obey these rules (although they probably broke some). England rul
ed the villages in the USA. Inside these villages, chaos started, they were nati
onal, they politically had a different dynamic than England.
The king was connected to the people through an image, through God . He was dif
ferent from them and they obeyed him. He wasnt chosen by the people but by a per
son, a middleman, connected to God. If only the king has power, he quickly becom
es a tyrant. (seeking for many wives, money...) There needs to be aristocracy, s
o that wont happen. They are qualified good people. If there is no king, arist
ocracy will fall and wont be quality because theyll be full of themselves and
fall apart.
Democracy, aristocracy, together makes a good government. They balance each othe
r.
After the revolution in England, The King , The House of the Lords , House
of the Commons
In the villages, : State assembly, Council, Governor. This was a mess, chaos, de
mocracy, but imperfect.
The difference is that the kings image was important, due to God. The governor w
as just someone appointed by the king. The lords are so old, it passes on by gen
eration, in America they were new and had no meaning, they were in Britains cult
ure, not the USA.
In England, only 2% could vore, since they had land... In the USA everyone had l
and but noone could vote.
Virtual representation – 50% of the House of Commons. Only when they all work toge
ther – they are the same person- it works and is well.
W. Churchill – "America and England are different nations divided by the same lang
uage".
There started a religion of chaos and balagan.
Roger Williams starts an idea to seperate between religion and politics and the
country – makes it happen in Rhode Island. He was also a religious man. He was the
first to realize and make a statement like that. Here began a new idea that the
politics, beurocracies, country can now use. This made a revolition to many peo
ple. He opened his own church in Rhode Island where politics and religion were n
ot connected. It is a dfifferent religion, it was a blow to religion. It was new
, had new experience, new images, De Facto separation. There were no protestants
. It was an awakening that broke it all, it was more open.
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield were the most famous/ outstanding rulers/
leaders of the awakening at that time.
For the reason that people can do whatever they wish, live the American dream ,
get rich easily, live a good life... For those reasons it is now overpopulated.
Jan De Drawker, French child who went to the new world, got very rich and went
back to the French Embassy, as a success.
It is a different identity:
-Lack of roots
-Functionalism
-Income
-Personal independance/ security
For 150 years, a new society of British developed, but they politically, religio
usly had a new experience in life, new world- it starts because of success in th
e middle of the 18th century.
Federalists (Adams) got into conflict with France. Adams wanted a citizenship la
w. They believed (Kentucky-Virginia) that these laws hurt human rights. Any law
sent, that not all states agree to and oppose to, they don’t have to obey it. Kent
ucky-Virginia laws stayed inside. The Federalists low, they accepted what the na
tion wanted. The whole thing could have collapsed... Adams had four months to pr
ettify his lost. Hamilton and Burr were both from New York. Adams not only lost,
he also chose who to lose to – Jefferson (Burr was his enemy)
Thomas Jefferson got elected president (1801) . Madison – vice president.
It was the limping duck period. - reducing damages from his loss. The governor c
hanged.
1803 – Marshall’s decision . Marbury (loser) vs Madison (winner). Marshall said that
he cannot make others do things. He is not superior to them – he declined the fed
eral law, by federalists of laws (justice authority). Both Kentucky- Virginia an
d Marhsall, changed the law by judging the law, looking into it. Marshall was af
raid of Kentucky-Virginia, felt threatened by them. He made a law that the High
Court of law couldn t change the law. This is accurate up to today. The revoluti
on is over – Jefferson is president.
National republicanism (1800-1850)
All presidents were from Virginia (up to 1824). Each new preside had the last on
e as his vice president.
Burr was insulted by losing and went to be the governor of New York, but Hamilto
n made others not choose him.
Jefferson- “Were all federalists, all republicans”. Both his rivals killed themselve
s politically. “Era of good feeling”.
1800 – Congress got a nice new house.
1803- Jefferson signed a contract and bought Luisiana from France – x4 the area of
the United States. “Lewis and Clark Expedition” - explore the Missouri river
The congress – Daniel Webster. (leading American statesman) north and east (best a
reas) He was a federalist but then he turns to be a national republican.
South – cotton, slavery, plant economy.
Henry Clay – west- business agriculture, market economy. They all ruled the same t
ime, died the same time, all grew up as kids in the USA and ruled it for 50years
.
John Marshall (federalist) designed politically the law, federal law, his court
opinions helped lay the basis for the American constitutional law. He was the pr
esident of the court house from 1801-1835. He believed socialists weren t Americ
an, believed in the nation and its union.
He said that they needed treaties because there was nothing that kept them toget
her, they were a collection of many nationalities, religions, they were a nation
of strangers and needed treaties.
The Takeoff Period
Very quickly the USA grows in the market, economically it spreads and grows – it b
ecomes the most evolved capitalistic society in the world. Due to the immigratio
n laws and the huge reproduction in the first half of the 18th century, the coun
try becomes very powerful. The vast majority of the population was always citize
ns of the US. (most were white)
Demographically, geographically – economic beneficence.
Until 1830 most of the money came from Europe, they all invested in the stock ma
rket. Transportation revolution – train. Now people and products could be sent no
matter the distance.
1812 – England sends an army to the US to make them use the trade laws (Mercantili
sm, laws of trade)
Britain also tried to make the Indians fight America.
There was a contract between the British and the Indians against the US. The peo
ple who were for the war were patriots and the war caused a rise in patriotism.
The national hymn was written and started in the time of the war.
Due to the war Madison prohibited trade with England. New England traders held a
conference In Hartford and the law wasn’t valid in New England anymore. “The Hartfo
rd Convention” James Monroe (president from 1817-1825, last Virginia president) p
roclaimed in 1823 that the US will not intervene with Europe and that the Europe
wont intervene with the United States. They stayed disconnected from Europe unt
il WW1.
Then John Quincy Adams was president – and after him, Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
Andrew Jackson Democracy – The Jacksonian Era.
He became a legend. He made up the word okay - all correct. Jackson was in the
1812 war and led victory. Self-madement was his principal. He was a war hero
against the rival indians and the British. He was a democrat. Simple man, natura
l. He got into politics when he got well-known.
1824 elections – Jackson ran for president He got most electors but not the majori
ty so the decision passed to the congress. John Adams (son of Sam Adams) was ele
cted, even though Jackson got most votes.
Jackson was called Jackass and until today its the unofficial sign of Democrat
s.
1828 – Jackson was elected the 7th president. He opened the gates of the white hou
se for the public (or a party 1829) He fought for a change in the system: from n
ow on every time a president changes, (up to today) so do the people that work f
or him. This is to prevent bureaucracy.
Every man could also vote now, they didn t need to have possessions – a huge democ
ratic development. Due to this, new social groups developed such as feminists.
1832 – Jackson wins in the elections, against clay. Jackson stops private banking/
central banking (until 1912) he believed it stopped economy rising/spreading.
He hated the Indians and deported them (unlike the high court which thought it w
as a bad idea) – caused the Indian genocide. Chauvinistic, as well.
Hamilton wanted to protect the economy of America by putting a customs shield
on products from England and it was beneficial for North USA but hurt the south
(economically)
South Carolina threatened to leave the union if the customs shield wasnt taken o
ff. He got very defensive and threatened to send army men to South Carolina if t
hey decided to leave, but he also decreases the high taxes and ends the argument
(1830-31)
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Slavery had a huge influence on the United States and had a big part in it s col
lapse/breaking of the treaty.
Ne o-marcissts wanted to open two companies, capitalistic organizations, in the
north and in the south and these two companies were going to break down, they co
uldn t get harmony.
Capitalism couldn t have slavery
Conflicts in America were believed to always stop after treaties were signed and
contracts were made, but the
Slavery was an issue in America that every time they ran away from solving it it
got more and more difficult to stop it, and in the end there was a Big Bang,
Slavery in the south, the north and how it treated slavery, the question of slav
ery and its territory.
1840 Total US Population –
Free blacks – 386,303 (went to the north, in the south the slavery was more diff
icult and strict)
Slaves – 2,487,455
Whites – 14,195,695
Total – 17,069,453
The culture in the south was very closed, they were different from others thanks
to the way they treated slaves.
In the 1820 s, the potential in cotton made slavery more difficult to stop becau
se now cotton was expensive and brought in a good income, so black people were
used to trade it. It was everyone s dream to have a slave and the more people sa
id that and bought them, the bigger the request for slaves became.
In the south the army was very strong.
Slowly south leaders like John Kleon started to see in patriotism relations betw
een the slave and it s master.
They believed that if not slavery the slaves would be wild and barbaric.
As slavery became more economical and less legitimate to the public outside of t
he south states, they became more harsh towards slaves.
Many slaves were trying to run away from doing things such as cleaning etc. They
didn t revolt but they וקמחתהfrom doing things, they played sick and lied … This was call
the Sambo situation. Being part of the system and ruining it from between.
There was a law that the black slaves couldn t write and read.
The more people read and understood what was going on , (African-American studie
s) the harder the status became.
They had food, a place to live in, a good life, clothes.... Their status was som
etimes better than many people in Europe at that time. But they felt that their
life was closed, they were not free to do what they wanted... Their masters made
them go to church sometimes...
There was a hierarchy between the slaves and it was more appreciated to be a sla
ve in a closed home than a cotton slave.
There were some people who thought it wasn t economic, but it was capitalism. Th
e south countries were not poor but rich (up-to today).
They didn t want to work, so they were beaten to work and in many cases they wer
e whipped (sometimes to death). It helped the whole system to work. They were so
metimes sold in cases when businesses went bankrupt.
Emmerson hated slavery, he was part of organizations against slavery, wrote abou
t it, he was pro- Abolshenists, but asked not to be called one of them.
Many people in the north felt that slavery kept them from advancing and that it
was hurting the south as well in economics. They believed that free labor made e
conomic developments and socially mobilized it.
Free labor and free land was seen as the advancement of humans that choose their
fate.
“Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler”.
The US always tried to block slavery from advancing farther.
“Missouri Compromise” - 1820
There was a whole system built of where slavery was legal and where it wasn t. I
n order to get into the slavery, they had to be accepted in couples,
War of Mexico and
Vilmont(north) abolished slavery in the new territories in the west.
A territory that wants to get into the united states could vote whether slavery
would
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