<p> Antebellum America Familiarity Activity</p><p>Organize the following highlights from our next unit in American history about Antebellum America in chronological order based on the following QuickStudy timelines: </p><p>Liberty Grows 1801-1823</p><p>Life Goes On 1807-1857</p><p>American Growth 1805-1849</p><p>Expansion and Reform 1825-1848</p><p>Slavery 1712-1865</p><p>You may drag and drop the events underneath the year. Multiple events may be placed under one year. Then, drag and drop the appropriate AP U.S. History topic underneath the event. Not all AP U.S. History topics will be used, and some may be used more than once Please make events bold and topics italicized. You have 20 minutes to complete this activity. When you are finished, please attach it to an e-mail to me [email protected] and put your team’s names on it. The team with the most correct will win a delicious prize upon my return. </p><p>1818</p><p>1820</p><p>1822</p><p>1823</p><p>1825</p><p>1828</p><p>1830</p><p>1831</p><p>1832</p><p>1836</p><p>1838</p><p>1841</p><p>1845</p><p>1847</p><p>1848 Events</p><p>Mormons arrive in Utah Territory.</p><p>National Road reaches Wheeling, West Virginia and later goes on to Columbus, Ohio by 1833.</p><p>Missouri Compromise prohibits slavery in Louisiana Territory states north of Missouri’s southern boundary.</p><p>Andrew Jackson vetoes rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States. </p><p>A potato famine starts in Ireland, leading to mass Irish immigration – 1.3 million by 1857</p><p>Eerie Canal is completed.</p><p>Trail of Tears begins when the Choctaw tribe from Mississippi and Alabama is forced to lands west of the Mississippi River.</p><p>Brook Farm, a cooperative that rejects materialism and seeks satisfaction in communal life, founded by Unitarian Minister George Ripley.</p><p>A planned slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina by freed black Denmark Vesey is thwarted.</p><p>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas is published, followed by establishment of the newspaper North Star.</p><p>The Supreme Court rules that 53 black mutineers from the Spanish slave ship Amistad, who had been taken into U.S. custody, shall be free to return to Africa.</p><p>The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill (California) starts the great California “Gold Rush.”</p><p>Underground Railroad is organized by abolitionists to provide slaves an escape route to the north.</p><p>Andrew Jackson is elected president.</p><p>Passage of Tariff of Abominations leads southern states to devise the Doctrine of Nullification, giving states the right to overrule federal legislation in conflict with their own.</p><p>An abortive revolution in Germany is the impetus for German immigration – 1.1 million by 1857</p><p>Women’s Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls, NY. </p><p>Monroe Doctrine declares “most of the Western Hemisphere” off limits to foreign (European) intervention</p><p>Republic of Texas is established.</p><p>Baltimore & Ohio railroad starts operating.</p><p>A second political party system begins to develop. </p><p>Catherine and Mary Beecher establish the Hartford Female Seminary to teach young women to be teachers which is seen as an extension of women’s “nurturing” role in society and establishes teaching as the role for educated women in the workplace. AP U.S. History Topics</p><p>6. Transformation of the Economy and Society in Antebellum America</p><p>1. The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy 2. Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures 3. Immigration and nativist reaction 4. Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South</p><p>7. The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America</p><p>1. Emergence of the second party system 2. Federal authority and its opponents: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff controversy, and states' rights debates 3. Jacksonian democracy and its successes and limitations</p><p>8. Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum America</p><p>1. Evangelical Protestant revivalism 2. Social reforms 3. Ideals of domesticity 4. Transcendentalism and utopian communities 5. American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions</p><p>9. Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny</p><p>1. Forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi West 2. Western migration and cultural interactions 3. Territorial acquisitions 4. Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War</p>