Unit 3: Rise of Democracy & Manifest Destiny
Timeline
Trigger Words
Primary Sources
The Removal of the American Indians This map depicts the American indian tribes', including the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and the Sauk, original settlements, the routes taken to their new settlements, and the alotted land given to the tribes after the Indian Removal Act was set into action by Andrew Jackson.
This map is significant because it shows the Indian dispersal and how far the Indians had to move from their homes to accomodate the white man's move across the continent. Rachel M. |
Ain't I A Woman - Sojourner Truth This is a speech deliverd by Soujourner Truth at a woman's convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. During this time period, the women's movement was rising and women wanted rights. Truth named actions that were seen as polite to women and Truth complained that men were never polite to her. She was a woman, why wasn't she treated as one?
This speech is significant because it begins to address both the inequalities between men and women, but also people with white colored skin and people with black colored skin. Her speech raised issues many women agreed with and Soujourner Truth fought relentlessly for rights for black people and women. Rachel M. |
Southern White Population - 1860 This is a pie chart of the whites who owned or didn't own slaves in the South in 1860. There are four pieces to this chart which are as follows: Whites with no slaves, whites with 1 - 9 slaves, whites with 10 - 19 slaces, and whites with 20 or more slaves.
This chart is significant because it begs the question: Why did so many white people without slaves fight in the Civil War to keep the peculiar institution intact? Rachel M. |
An American Slave Market - Oil Painting This is an oil painting of the Southern slave trade, painted by an anonymous artist.
This painting is significant because it depicts the white men who are buying the slaves as men of class and high society, while the slaves' faces are not visible, as if they are just laborers who's names and faces and stories do not matter. Also, the fact that the white men outnumber the black men, shows a sense of superiority and arrogance. Rachel M. |