From 1600 to 1877, What Major Events and/or Movements Contributed to the Creation of a Unique American Identity and/or Culture?

     During 1790-1860, there were many reformations taking place and many events that lead up to the reformation of this very inexperienced country, of America. All these events effected the United States different ways and caused many grievances for the young people living in America. In 1790 we firmly incorporated the first American cotton mill which led to the economic augmentation of the United States. In 1791 we established the Capital of the United States in Washington D.C., and Alexander Hamilton establishes the first bank of America. In 1794 in Pennsylvania there was an uprising called the Whiskey Rebellion. People were rejecting the taxes on their way of life, and that was whiskey.

Slavery was essentially an institution in America in the 18th and 19th centuries. The southern states would rely largely on slavery for their agriculture such as the cultivating and tending of their crops. Many Americans of the time viewed blacks as primitive savages who were not worthy of equality and freedom. It is hard for people of today to understand how the

Slaves were an economic positive but a social negative in history. They helped the economics of the country thrive and grow, but it was also a insult of a race. Africans also had a history that they should have been proud to have. Instead, they were denied their heritage and were made to be ashamed of the people that they were. The development of slavery was the white slave owners ' way to maintain control of the growing population of Africans, socially and industrially. If the slaves were confined to the fields of the plantations for supervision, the whites would remain dominant race and maintain their theory of "white supremacy." It also freed the slave owners from the worries of labor

The institution of slavery, which was a system in which African Americans were forced into labor and had their freedom restricted, was seen as a positive necessity to Southerners. Slavery was seen as though it was essential, it was seen as an entity they could not live without. The Peculiar Institution began in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia when the colonist first began arriving in Colonial America. Slavery was first introduced when the colonists, who happened to be privileged in the sense that they never did their own work, needed to get their work done. Since no one wanted to do the work such as building houses, farming

Slavery in the United States was a very devastating event that was caused by the demand of labor for slaves by slaveowners. The main purpose of these slaves were to provide owners with cheap labor and make a huge profit out of their hard work. However, the effects of slaves were that the African Population in the United States dramatically increased and how petitions were being made against slavery.

For the colonists slavery was an easy concept. African slaves had practiced slavery before and were more skilled. When they were introduced to the new world they had no idea where they were. They started to work again for the colonist because they had so few choices for themselves and didn’t know the best for them. They need a lot of labor with the Native population decreasing they needed some.The slaves were experienced in intensive agriculture and raising livestock and knew how to raise crops. They started bringing more and more slaves across the Atlantic ocean and to the new world. They started to take them out of England and make up all the American colonies.

Between 1860 and 1877, America was in the midst of the Civil War and reconstruction following the war. America had many good ideas; however, very few of their revolutionary ideas ever effectuated exactly as planned. During this time period, there were many good ideas that were applied to the constitution or were said to be good, however many of these ideas were never truly implemented. Critics could state that America had undergone a revolution, however there was not much truly revolutionary about these events. It was not just constitutional changes, there were also social changes that were supposed to take place, but inevitably failed to actually be executed into Americans lifestyle.

Slavery originally started in Latin America and the West Indies by the French, Spanish, and Portuguese after the conquest, to replace the depopulated labor of the Indigenous people. Shortly after, slavery became a profitable enterprise for the capitalistic driven United States. Some of the principal laws and systems of slavery were the same in both regions, but others were later changed. It brought about many changes, with respect to African-Americans and black culture. Those changes had long lasting effects, not only on how blacks view and are viewed in society, but also on how the destruction of our culture influenced our current life-style today in United States and

During the years of the 1800’s there were many technological, social and political developments in America. The country experienced growth through the Industrial Revolution, slavery and the women’s rights movement all in one century. The nation experienced reforms, utopian societies and compromises all in pursuit of a “perfect” America. All of the inventions, movements and amendments of the 1800’s helped shape America’s industry, government and society, overall shaping the United States.

The United States also became a world power during this era. Industrialization shaped a new America.

All the way through the 17th and 18th centuries, slavery was essential to the economy of the United States (). It all begun in 1619 when a Dutch ship brought over a ship of slaves from the coast of Africa. The idea of owning foreign people and making them work for free made plantation owners enthusiastic. Over the next couple hundred years, over 7 million healthy, competent people were stolen from the African continent (). Slave owners, otherwise known as masters, had large farms and crops that their African American slaves would work on all day, but there were other jobs that slaves did too. The slaves would also be nannies and maids. Governed rules were placed upon the slaves: they weren’t allowed to read or write, their behavior and

Slavery was a cruel time in American History. It first started in 1619. African americans were brought in to aid production of crops. Slavery goes far back even in the ancient times. Slaves were not treated good and were forced to work. Slaves were African-American, they can be either bought or sold. Instead of hiring someone or doing the work yourself people would buy slaves and force them to do a labor and hard work for them.

The Middle Passage received its name because it is in the middle of the Triangular Trade. Legs of the triangular trade stretch from Europe to Africa, Africa to the Western Hemisphere, then back to Europe again. This was a great route for Europeans to get ships around the world quickly and efficiently. This is how the slave trade began (Meltzer 9). Most everyone in the world today has a descendent from slavery. Enslavement is a human being that is possessed by someone else, who does labor for free unwillingly. An owner could range from a King, Queen, Noble, Tribe, Government, Clergy, or Business owner. Slaves were considered similar to horses in a way because they could be bought, sold, hired out, exchanged, given as a gift, or inherited (Meltzer 9-1).

One of the historic foundations that the United States was formed on was known as slavery. Slavery had such an immense impact on American history from the early sixteenth century to the nineteenth century. It has facilitated in shaping the modern world, in addition to slavery had a strong role in forming the United States Constitution as we know it today. Slavery refers to an individual who is owned by others and controlled by their owners. A slave was considered property, an item that has ownership, and as all items of property could be purchased and or sold by said owner, that same concept was applied to a slave. Slaves were used for many purposes, for personal services, military, and for economic production. African Americans where easy targets to enslave for the simple fact that they didn’t have guns like the Europeans, so they were not able to fight back. (http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Slavery/articles/sherwood.html) They did not have a military to defend themselves and their technology of defense was less advanced than that of America or Britain.

The Middle Passage alludes to the piece of the exchange where Africans, thickly pressed onto ships, were transported over the Atlantic toward the West Indies. The voyage took three to four months and, amid this time, the oppressed individuals for the most part lay tied in lines on the floor of the hold or on racks that circled within the boats' structures.