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Melanie G

1756-1776:The Seven Years War to the American Revolution - 1 views

www.taxanalysts.com/museum

HIS110-FA09 module 3

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  • Melanie G on 08 Oct 09
     
    This site is awesome because it provides a tax museum time line. I learn more when information is gathered in time lines, it does not appear so overwhelming.The French and Indian War represented the decisive turning point in British colonial relations. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ratified Britain's undisputed control of the seas and shipping trade, as well as its sovereignty over much of the North American continent east of the Mississippi River.
mary seely

George Washington --Abolitionist! - 0 views

petri.house.gov/gw007.htm

HIS100-F09

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  • slavery haunted the hearts and minds of virtually all of the Founding Fathers.
  • Yet slavery was repugnant to the nation's president. He disliked the inhumanity of the system. Many families had to be split up; often married men lived far from their wives and children. Supervision frequently resulted in corporal punishment and sickness and death were prevalent.
  • In his journals, Washington also discussed attention to medical care. Overseers were "to be particularly attentive to the Negros in their sickness." Such treatment, Washington commented, was not always widespread. Wealthy slaveowners ... "were not always as kind," he lamented, "and as attentive to their wants and usage as they ought to be."
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  • Washington became increasingly critical of slavery as an economic system
  • As early as 1786, Washington had determined that the only acceptable solution would be emancipation. "There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of [slavery]," he wrote to Robert Morris. While he took no steps politically, he began to take steps personally
  • "liberate a certain species of property which I possess, very repugnantly to my own feelings." Unfortunately, there were no acceptable offers to lease the farms.
  • What was revolutionary, however, were the next few lines. In them, George Washington provided that all of his slaves be freed and that they be supported financially or trained for a period of years for "some useful occupation" to assure their preparedness for life as free men and women.
  • For Washington, however, it was once again evidence of the virtuous precedent he was bound and determined to set. The new American republic could survive only if it relied upon the virtuous and full participation of all its citizens. For Washington, that could mean no less than the abolition of slavery. He would take the first step.
  • Alone of the Founding Fathers, Washington freed his slaves
  • mary seely on 22 Oct 09
     
    washington the abolitionist
Sara Vinke

The African American : A Journey from Slavery to Freedom - 0 views

www.liu.edu/...aaslavry.htm

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  • Sara Vinke on 19 Nov 09
     
    A much more indepth look at Slavery
Kody West

History Time Line of the Erie Canal - NYcanal.com - 0 views

www.nycanal.com/...eriecanaltimeline.html

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shared by Kody West on 21 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Kody West on 21 Nov 09
     
    Canal system offers unexpected boating adventures!
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