https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs en-us 2019-12-05 19:29:33 UTC 2025-11-19 21:07:36 UTC hello@padlet.com madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/420452967 How did migration to the United States and the doctrine of Manifest Destiny change popular ideas of American identity and citizenship, affect territorial expansionism, cause conflict and impact regional and racial identities?]]> 2019-12-05 19:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/420452967 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/420947052 In 1844 President James K. Polk of Tennessee was elected president. President Polk was an expansionist and favored the annexation of Texas and occupation of Oregon. With the election of President Polk, came the emergence of Manifest Destiny as a popular American ideal.]]> 2019-12-06 19:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/420947052 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/420958317 Texas was annexed by President Tyler at the end of his term in 1845. This annexation led to tension with Mexico over border disputes.]]> 2019-12-06 19:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/420958317 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/421215242 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American war. The terms of the treaty included the Rio Grande River being the southern border of Texas and the United States aquiring California and New Mexico. This treaty caused tension between the North and the South and is viewed by some historians as a prelude to the Civil War.]]> 2019-12-07 20:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/421215242 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/421216275 Between the period of 1830 to 1860 nearly half of the immigrants coming to the United States were Irish. The majority of the Irish came during the 1840s Potato Famine. When they in America many Irish were met with discrimination, due to the nativists fear of loosing their jobs and their culture changing.]]> 2019-12-07 20:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/421216275 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/421217300 The Califorina Gold Rush began in 1848 and attracted nearly 100,000 settlers. This caused a need for law and order and California was admitted as a state, expanding the territory of the United States.]]> 2019-12-07 20:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/421217300 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/421779458 Manifest Destiny inspired America to aquire more terriotory. Among this territory was Kansas and Nebraska, which were previously Indian Reservation. With this new terriotory came the question of slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act established that the status of slavery would be decided by the regions settlers.]]> 2019-12-09 18:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/421779458 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/421783841 The Gadsden Purchase included the southern parts of New Mexico and Arizona. The United States purchased it from Mexico to build a southern transcontinental railroad. This purchase completed the modern day southern border.]]> 2019-12-09 18:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/421783841 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422359541 In the 1840s and 1850s many Chinese emigrated from China. They helped build the transcontinental railroad which helped fulfill the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. The Chinese were met with racial discrimination which would cause a rift into the 20th century.]]> 2019-12-10 18:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422359541 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422365242 How did the maturing of northern manufacturing and adherence of the South to an agricultural economy change the national economic system and impact the Civil War? How was the American conflict over slavery part of larger global events?]]> 2019-12-10 19:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422365242 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422365685 The compromises that attempted to keep tensions low before the war failed because they could not find a way to please both sides. The compromises did not satisfy the North and the South because neither side got what they wanted and so the war ensued.]]> 2019-12-10 19:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422365685 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422371880 The expansion of railroads linked the Midwest and Northeast. This made trade and transportation easier. This railroad expansion did not continue into the South and they would have a major disadvantage in the war.]]> 2019-12-10 19:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422371880 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422919238 During the Civil War the South hoped to make an alliance with Britain. Britain however, was uninterested due to uneasiness at starting a war with the Union. Had they sided with the South, the America-Great Britian realtionship would have been damaged. They also did not want to get involved due to their opposition to slavery. The effects of this may still have been seen today.]]> 2019-12-11 19:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422919238 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422928445 Before the war the North dominated the banking industry. When the South seceded they did not have an established banking system which would lead to extreme inflation.]]> 2019-12-11 19:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422928445 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422928522 Before the war the South depended on textiles from the North and food from the West. During the war the South had to import these goods, but due to the blockade they were unable to import them and their citizens suffered.]]> 2019-12-11 19:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422928522 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422935634 In 1862 there were only two nations ruled by Africans. The US had never recognized them because of slaveholders influence in Congress, but Abraham Lincoln changed this by recognizing their soveirgnty. This was the first step to America becoming a leader in human rights internationally.]]> 2019-12-11 19:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/422935634 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/423057077 After the Civil War Americans began to recognize the rights of nonwhites. Before the war a small percentage of Americans had argued for abolition but after the more Americans began to believe in these views. Ideas about the United States began to change as well. Americans no longer viewed themselves by their regional identities, but as citizens of the United States.]]> 2019-12-12 00:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/423057077 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/423061691 How did the growth of mass migration to the Unites States, the end of slavery and technilogical, including railroad, and military developments transform the enviorment and settlement patterns in the South and West?]]> 2019-12-12 01:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/423061691 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/423469602 The Fourteenth Amendment declared that everyone born or naturalized in the United States was a citizen and that every citizen deserved due process. This would lead to the South becoming a more equal environment. ]]> 2019-12-12 18:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/423469602 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/423485802 After the abolition of slavery, southern planters needed to find a new labor system. From this emerged sharecropping, which would quickly become a new form of servitude, changing the environment of the South.]]> 2019-12-12 19:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/423485802 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/423494667 To escape persecution in the South many African Americans migrated to states in the North and Midwest. In these places they developed African American communities. ]]> 2019-12-12 19:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/423494667 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424305024 After the Civil War the Southern economy changed. Although it remained a dominantly agriculture based economy, successful textile mills did emerge. This was part of Henry W. Grady's vision of th "New South." This idea wasa never accomplished to the extent that Grady had hoped, but did change the enviornment of the South. ]]> 2019-12-15 18:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424305024 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424305915 The end of slavery led to mixed feelings from Americans. Some welcomed it as a necessary change, while others fervently opposed it. These feelings caused an enviornment of hatred in the South which continued into the 20th century. This enviornment would be caused primarily by the Klu Klux Klan which burned black owned builidings, and flogged and murdered freedmen. ]]> 2019-12-15 18:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424305915 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424306517 The Panic of 1873 was caused by overspeculation of financers and overbuilding by the railroad industry. It caused many laborers to be jobless and homeless which led to many Americans to move to the Western United States.]]> 2019-12-15 18:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424306517 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424310336 Reconstruction caused debates over who should vote and what rights freed slaves should have. This led to the fourteenth ammendment which gave every male citizen the right to vote. These debates did not lead to equal rights for women though. Reconstruction caused the relationship between the state and federal governments to change also. The federal government became more powerful.]]> 2019-12-15 19:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424310336 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424313071 In the Compromise of 1877 the Democrats agreed to let Republican Rutherford B. Hayes become President in exchange for military withdrwal from the South and the building of a Southern Transcontinental railroad. This railroad changed the eviornment of the South by making transportation more accessible. ]]> 2019-12-15 19:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424313071 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424313086 The end of reconstruction came in 1877 with the Supreme Court striking down Reconstruction laws. These deciscions would forever change the South because they repealed the laws protecting black citizens.]]> 2019-12-15 19:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424313086 madeline_erickson1 https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424313146 All pictures sourced from Padlet.

Newman, John J., and John M. Schmalbach. United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination. Amsco School Publications, 2018.]]> 2019-12-15 19:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/424313146 rschuehle https://padlet.com/madeline_erickson1/j5s0upg3tnzs/wish/426331578 Well Done! I am impressed with the depth of your discussion on all three parts of this assignment.

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