Colonial Rule #3 I. Growth 17

1. 
   “Dark Horse”
   
2. 
   Polk…
   

1. 
   Spain, 1542-1821
   
   1. 
      Coronado (1539-40) & DeSoto (1839-42)
      
2. 
   Zebulon Pike, 1805-07
   
3. 
   Mexico, 1821
   
   1. 
      Moses Austin, 1821
      
   2. 
      Stephen F. Austin, 1823
      
4. 
   Mexican Government, 1824
   
   1. 
      Mexican Citizenship
      
   2. 
      Catholic
      
   3. 
      Taxes…
      
   4. 
      Slavery
      
5. 
   Ben Milam, 1835
   
   1. 
      Santa Anna
      
6. 
   Sam Houston
   
7. 
   Alamo, (Jan-Feb 1836)
   
   1. 
      “188 Patriots”
      

1. 
   William B. Travis & Bowie
   
2. 
   Davy Crockett
   

8. 
   Goliad, (March 27)
   
   1. 
      General Jose Urrea
      
9. 
   Houston
   
10. 
    San Jacinto (April 26)
    
    1. 
       Santa Anna
       
    2. 
       Treaty of Velasco
       
11. 
    Texas…
    
    1. 
       Sam Houston
       
    2. 
       Lorenzo Zavala
       
12. 
    Slavery…
    
    1. 
       Ashworth Family
       
13. 
    James K. Polk (Dec. 29, 1845)
    

1. 
   22 U.S. (1835)
   
2. 
   Texas Revolt, 1836
   
3. 
   Mexico, 1838
   
4. 
   France, 9/25/1839
   
5. 
   Mexican Troops, 9/11/1842
   
6. 
   Thomas C. Jones, 10/20/1842
   
7. 
   Polk’s Campaign, 1844
   

1. 
   “Empire of Liberty”
   

8. 
   John Slidel, 11/10/1845
   
9. 
   Annexation of Texas, 12/29/1845
   
10. 
    Mexico, 12/29/1845
    
11. 
    Zachary Taylor, 1/13/1846
    
12. 
    Mexican Army, (May 9)
    
13. 
    U.S. Declaration of War, (May 13)
    
14. 
    Lincoln’s “Spot Resolution”, 1846
    

1. 
   Zachary Taylor, (May 18)
   
   1. 
      Santa Anna
      
2. 
   Winfield Scott, 1/3/1847
   
3. 
   Mexico City, 9/14/1847
   
4. 
   Nicholas Trist & Scott
   
   1. 
      “All Mexico”
      
5. 
   Guadalupe – Hidalgo Treaty (Feb. 2, 1848)
   
   1. 
      Mexican Cession
      
   2. 
      $15 Million
      
   3. 
      $3.25 Million
      

1. 
   James Gadsden
   
2. 
   “Young America”
   

1. 
   4 Nations Compete…
   
   1. 
      Treaty of Tordesillas, 6/7/1494
      
   2. 
      Vitus Bering, 1741
      
   3. 
      Sir Francis Drake (1577-80) & Captain Cook (1776)
      
   4. 
      Robert Gray, 5/11/1792
      
      1. 
         Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1804-06
         
2. 
   U.S. – British (Oct. 20, 1818)
   
   1. 
      Join Occupation 1828-44
      
   2. 
      James K. Polk, 1844
      
      1. 
         “Fifty – Four Forty or Fight”
         
   3. 
      Oregon Treaty, 6/15/1846
      

1. 
   Caroline, 12/29/1837
   
2. 
   “Aroostook War” 1838
   
3. 
   Creole, 1841
   
   1. 
      British…
      
4. 
   Webster – Ashburton, 8/9/1842
   

1. 
   Junipero Serra, 1769-81
   
2. 
   Mexico, 1821
   
3. 
   John Bidwell, 1841
   

1. 
   “Immigrant Trail”
   
1. 
   “Bear Flag Republic” (June 14, 1846)
   
2. 
   George Donner (Winter 1846-47)
   
3. 
   John A. Sutter, 1841
   
   1. 
      James Wilson Marshall, 1/24/1848
      

Slaves & Masters #13

1. 
   Fifty % of the Slaves…
   
   1. 
      Ninety % of Cotton…
      
      1. 
         Cotton
         
      2. 
         Cotton Gin (1793)
         
   2. 
      Thirty %
      
   3. 
      “Cotton Belt”
      
   4. 
      Southern Cotton
      
      1. 
         13,000 Bales (1792)
         
      2. 
         4.8 Million (1860)
         
   5. 
      Seventy-Five %
      
      1. 
         Slavery & Cotton
         
      2. 
         South’s Annual export…
         
      3. 
         Rice
         
   6. 
      Only 5%
      
   7. 
      Seventy-Five %
      
      1. 
         Tobacco
         
   8. 
      “Antebellum”
      

1. 
   English or Scot-Irish
   

1. 
   “Planters”
   
   1. 
      Ownership of Land
      
   2. 
      Only 12%
      
   3. 
      “Planters”
      
   4. 
      Less Than 8,000…
      
   5. 
      Only 2,292 “Planters”
      
   6. 
      Census, 1860
      
   7. 
      Paternalistic Culture
      
   8. 
      Andrew Jackson
      
   9. 
      “Big House”
      
   10. 
       Greek Marble Pillars
       
   11. 
       “Planters”….
       
   12. 
       Justice of the Peace
       
   13. 
       Private Tutors
       

1. 
   Code of Chivalry
   
2. 
   College Education
   

1. 
   Ivanhoe
   
1. 
   Mistress
   
   1. 
      Supervision
      
   2. 
      Planter’s Wife
      
2. 
   Yeomen
   
   1. 
      Owners
      
   2. 
      Self-Sufficient
      
   3. 
      Yeomen Owned…
      
3. 
   “White Crackers”
   
   1. 
      Illiterate Frontier Families
      

1. 
   Over 50%…
   
   1. 
      Female Slaves
      
   2. 
      Nearly Half…
      
   3. 
      “Women’s Work”
      
   4. 
      Sexually Abused
      
2. 
   Floggings & Whippings
   
   1. 
      Slaves
      
   2. 
      Deprived
      
   3. 
      Limited Diet
      
   4. 
      “Slave Quarters”
      
   5. 
      Domestic Servants
      
   6. 
      “Broomstick Weddings”
      

1. 
   Slaves
   
   1. 
      “Trickster Tales”
      

1. 
   “Head Drivers”
   
   1. 
      “Sub-Drivers”
      
   2. 
      “Breakers”
      

1. 
   Average Worth, 1850s
   
   1. 
      Most Productive
      
2. 
   Legal Importation, 1808
   
   1. 
      Illegal Smuggling
      
   2. 
      N.P. Gordon
      

1. 
   Mulattoes
   
2. 
   Chastity of White
   
3. 
   New Orleans
   
4. 
   William T. Johnson
   

Stono Revolt, 9/9/1739

Charleston (Jan. 1740)

Gabriel Prosser, 8/30/1800