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Jan 1, 1491
Free Natives
Natives roamed freely across North American lands, following bison and some others were sedentary. The women played a special role in helping gather fruits and herbs while the men hunted. Women were highly praised and exhaulted for they brought life into this world. Male and Female roles were equally important for they were necessary for survival. -
Period: Jan 1, 1491 to
Demographics and Change in Family Structure
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Period: Jan 1, 1491 to
Early Contact
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Oct 12, 1492
Exploration Craze
Christopher Columbus stumbles upon a Bahamian island and claims it for Spain. After word gets to Spain many other explorers begin to sail to the Americas to colonize vasts of land, known now as Latin America. -
Apr 1, 1519
Germs are Killers
Hernando Cortes arrives to present day Mexico where the Aztec empire was in full swing. He brings 500 men with him and together they conquer the Aztec empire, disease and war wipe out the Aztec people. A new race of mixed blood is born after many Europeans take Native partners and have children with them. -
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The Atlantic World
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The New Nation
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Republican Motherhood
The idea that women should be educated for the sole purpose of teaching their sons to become civil leaders of the republic. -
Cult of Domesticity
The cult of domesticity is a view about women in the 1800s where it was believed that women should stay at home and should not do any work outside of the home.
There were four things they believed that women should be:
1.More religious than men
2.Pure in heart, mind, and body, purity
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Reform and Soacial Change
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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of territory in America, paving the way for the Lewis and Clark expedition and later westward expansion. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
After Jefferson obtained French Territory he appointed his private secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to be head of the exploratory expedition which purpose was to "safetycheck" this "unknown" territory. Lewis then created a group,called Corps of Discovery which consisted of 33 people. Among them was his life long friend, William Clark,and and an Indian women and a slave. The exploration of these lands promoted westward expansion into the frontier. -
Old Immigration
Due to the Irish and German potato famines, respectively, large amounts of Irish and German people immigrated to the U.S., drastically changing the demographics in both the cities and on the frontier. Little towns of these immigrants developed and nativists gave them hard times. -
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The Civil War: Conflict and Compromise
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Transcontinental Railroad
The transcontinental railroad facilitated the movement of people to the west. In search for gold/silver, cattle farms, farming lands and the promise of land to anyone willing to move to the west ,by The Homestead Act of 1862, thousnads flocked on over. -
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The Gilded Age
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Mining Towns
When gold was discovered in the Black Hills, many rushed to the northwest to search for gold, thus the creation of mining towns emerged. Tragically, alot of Natives were displaced and driven out by force. -
2nd Wave Immigration
During industrialization and the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad, an influx of immigrants predominantly from Italy, Poland, and Russia, rushed into America and got jobs as railroadsmen. Along with them came the Chinese trhough Angel Island. The migration of so many led to immigration quotas and the Chinese exclusions, as nativists pressured the government to act on the migration of these people. -
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Domestic & Global Challenges/ Creation of Mass Culture
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Great Migration
Movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural South and into urban Northeast, Midwest and West. They moved to escape povery and prosecution. This resulted in the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance which was a period in which black culture was expressed and exposed through literature, art, music and poetry. -
19th Amendment
Passage of the 19th amendment brought women new freedoms and expanded their opportunities to make a difference in the world. Years following the passage of the 19th amendment saw women becoming more social and career oriented as also the divorce rates neerly doubled. Women no longer felt so tied down and were free to decide for themselves moreso than they used to. -
Oakies
"Oakies" are the name given to the farm families from the plains of the midwest who were escaping the dust storms and consequences of the Dust Bowl. Their main destination was California. -
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Prosperity and Global Responsibility
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Baby Boom
After World War ll,in 1946, live births in the U.S. surged from 222,721 in January to 339,499 in October. By the end of the 1940s, about 32 million babies had been born, compared with 24 million in the 1930s. -
Suburbs
With the creation of the interstate highways and air conditioner, the Sun Belt was open to the mass construction of houses for families to live. Levitt and Sons mass produced homes for the accomidation of military personal but then he expanded to producing for oridinary Americans. -
Nuclear Family
Telivision and the media promoted the "ideal american family" during the 1950s. The housewife mother, macho father and 2.4 kids living in Suberbia was what Americans dreamed to have. -
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Globalization/Redifining National Identity
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Graying of America
With advances in Medicine and technology, life expectancy has increased. The baby boomers are able to live longer and its projected that 1/4 of Americans will be at least 85 years of age by the year 2030. This demographic change and its effects are still being debated.
