GOAL ONE 1.02

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GOAL ONE1.02

• The New Nation (1789-1820)
• The learner will identify, investigate, and
  assess the effectiveness of the institutions of
  the emerging republic.
• Analyze the political freedoms available to the
  following groups prior to 1820 women, wage
  earners, landless farmers, American Indians,
  African Americans, and other ethnic groups.

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Suffrage Requirements

• the right or privilege of voting. Suffrage in the
  United States has progressed from the colonial
  period, when only wealthy white males of
  sufficient property and acceptable religious
  beliefs had the privilege of voting, to today,
  when all male and female citizens over the age of
  eighteen, regardless of wealth, race, or
  religion, have the right to vote.

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Suffrage Requirements

• Milestones in this halting progress toward
  universal enfranchisement include the Fifteenth
  Amendment (1870) to the Constitution, which
  prohibited discrimination against voters based on
  race or previous condition of servitude the
  Nineteenth Amendment (1920), which granted women
  the right to vote the Voting Rights Act (1965),
  which helped to eradicate the remnants of
  discriminatory poll taxes, literacy tests, and
  other measures aimed at preventing southern
  blacks from registering to vote and the
  Twenty-sixth Amendment (1971), which lowered the
  voting age from twenty-one to eighteen.

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Tecumseh

• (1768?-1813), Shawnee chief and political leader.
  With the help of his brother Tenskwatawa ("the
  Prophet"), Tecumseh, hoping to stop the advance
  of white settlers in the Old Northwest, tried to
  unite many of the eastern Indian tribes in a
  confederation. After the Indians were defeated by
  the Americans at the Battle of Tippecanoe in
  1811, Tecumseh joined the British forces during
  the War of 1812. He was killed in the Battle of
  the Thames at Chatham, Ontario, in 1813 while
  leading his warriors against the invading
  Americans.

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Cotton Gin

• a machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 that
  separated seeds from cotton fiber. Before its
  invention, it took one person a full day to pick
  the seeds from a pound of cotton. The gin made it
  profitable to grow cotton (thus increasing demand
  for slaves) because it was easy to make,
  inexpensive, and enabled a person to process
  fifty pounds of cotton a day.

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Eli Whitney

• (1765-1825), inventor. As inventor of the cotton
  gin (patented in 1794), which separated lint from
  cotton seeds, Whitney helped make cotton the
  principal money crop of the South. He obtained a
  government contract for ten thousand muskets in
  1798, and used interchangeable parts to
  manufacture the firearms in his New Haven,
  Connecticut, factory, becoming one of the first
  to use mass production methods. His manufacturing
  techniques influenced those of Ford Henry, Colt
  Samuel, and others.

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Necessary Evil

• most Americans regarded slavery as a necessary
  evil.

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Emancipation

• Term used to describe the act of freeing a person
  who was under the legal authority of another
  (such as a child before the age of majority) from
  that control (such as child reaching the age of
  majority). The term was also used when slavery
  was legal to describe a former slave that had
  bought or been given freedom from his or her
  master. When Abraham Lincoln outlawed slavery he
  did so in a law called the "emancipation
  proclamation".

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Treaty of Greenville 1796

• (August 3, 1795), an agreement ending a period of
  warfare with Indians, thus opening the Old
  Northwest Territory for whites to settle in
  apparent safety. It was signed following the
  defeat of the frontier Indians at the Battle of
  Fallen Timbers by ("Mad") Anthony Wayne.