Transcript vital stronghold on the Mississippi was no more.

 Federalist believed in a central banking system
 Democratic Republicans – believed in state banks
 Goal 1
 Content: Tecumseh Joined
the British army in the war
of 1812 to stop westward
expansion.
 Tecumseh worked to unite
other Indian tribes to
oppose white western
expansion in the early
1800s. That dream was
crippled when U.S. troops
defeated warriors led by
Tecumseh's brother.
Tecumseh was later killed
while fighting on the British
side at the Battle of
Thames during the War of
1812. Goal 1
 Tecumseh's growing
American Indian
confederation battled
Americans forces in the war
of 1812 with the British to
halt westward expansion by
American colonist.
 Tecumseh and the
Shawnees did not hold any
claim on the land, but they
believed that Indian land was
owned in common by all of
the tribes, and therefore, no
land could be sold without all
the tribes in agreement.
 Goal 1.
 The US wanted an end to what they saw as
European dominance in the area of
economics and exports. The Monroe
Doctrine (1823) explicitly stated that the
U.S. would not tolerate European
colonialism in the western hemisphere .
 Goal 2
 Wilmot's Proviso Goal 2
 David Wilmot proposal led to
northern and southern
sectional lines.
 The Pennsylvania
representative was so
adamantly against the
extension of slavery to lands
ceded by Mexico, he made a
proposition that would divide
the Congress. On August 8,
1846, Wilmot introduced
legislation in the House that
boldly declared, "neither
slavery nor involuntary
servitude shall ever exist" in
lands won in the MexicanAmerican War.
 Content: John Brown
raid on Harpers Ferry
renewed feared of
southern slave revolts.
John Brown was an
abolitionist, Brown
moved to Kansas, a
territory deeply divided
over the slavery issue.
Brown become angry
over the popular
sovereignty issue the
gave rights the right to
decide the issue of
slavery. Goal 3
 Content: General Grant's
armies converged on
Vicksburg, investing the
city and entrapping a
Confederate army under
Lieutenant General John
Pemberton.
 On July 4, Vicksburg the
south surrendered after
prolonged siege
operations. This was the
 With the loss of Vicksburg
the Confederacy was
effectively split in half. The
vital stronghold on the
Mississippi was no more.
 THE U2 spy plane was used during the Cold War
espionage missions by the former Soviet Union.
 President Eisenhower caught a spy plane over In US
territory and saw this as communist aggression.
 Goal 11: Cold War containment
 Content: President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt gave
muckrakers their name they successfully heightened
public awareness regarding horrible conditions that
led to the creation of the Food and Drug administration
Act. Goal 6
 American Indian Movement
was organization to address
various issues concerning
the Native American rights
and citizenship.
 AIM soon attracted members
from across the United
States.
 In the decades since AIM's
has led protests advocating
indigenous American
interests, inspired cultural
renewal, monitored police
activities, and coordinated
employment programs in
cities and in rural reservation
communities across the
United States. Goal 12
 Graying of America
addresses the growing
numbers of older people
who will need healthcare
benefits. Goal 12
 Current trends (the
graying of the baby
boomers, increases in
the number of older
people of retirement age
 Throughout the 21st
century nearly 40% of
the federal budget may
be consumed with agingrelated programs.
 Content: As the United States was the largest exporter of both
agricultural goods and industrial products, due ton the Hawley
Smoot tariff the result was worldwide depression.
 The Hawley-Smoot Tariff raised tariffs to their highest levels in
US history. Its proponents, including President Hoover,
believed that the high tariffs would help American industry and
agriculture in a time of severe depression. In fact, it lead to
worldwide depression. Goal 9
 Content: President
Eisenhower demonstrated
limited action regarding civil
rights this issue was a serious
challenge to his presidency.
 On several occasions
Eisenhower had expressed
distaste for racial segregation,
though he believed that the
process of integration would
take time.
 Significantly, the Civil Rights
Act of 1957 was the first such
law passed since 1875. -Encyclopedia Britannica
 Goal 11 Civil Rights
 Content: During the 1980s and 1990s, several environmental issues,
including acid rain, global climate change, and the depletion of the ozone
layer, gave rise to further federal regulation. Acid rain, which has caused
significant damage to U.S. and Canadian lakes.
 Acid rain is created when the sulfur from fossil fuels, such as coal, combines
with oxygen in the air to create sulfur dioxide, a pollutant. The sulfur dioxide
then combines with oxygen to form sulfate, which, when washed out of the
air by fog, clouds, mist, or rain, becomes acid rain, with potentially
catastrophic effects on vegetation and ground water.
 Amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990 (Pub. L. No. 101-549, 104 Stat.
2399 [Nov. 15, 1990]) sought to address the challenges posed by acid rain
by commissioning a number of federally sponsored studies, including an
analysis of Canada's approach to dealing with acid rain
Goal 12