Monday:
presentations
Topics to research and include in your presentation:
1. Period of time
2. Basic explanation of what happened
3. Key people involved and major events
4. Impact on the US both positively and negatively
Topics:
The Spanish claim a new Empire
- St augustine in Florida
- 1492
- Later caused war
- Missions Native Americans
- goal: spared catholic faith
- native americans trade took place in 1400
- different groups
- in 1803
- $11,250,000
- led to the expansion of the united states
- 1607
- Key people: John smith
- Impact: first settlement to raise tobacco
- no one knows when the aztec first came
Christopher Columbus
- 1492
- tried to get to Asia for new trades, but found america
- started slave trades
The birth of industry:
- things were either powered by steam or goal
- we were based on agriculture and became more with the industry
- December 20th
- slavery was just a small part of the civil war
- fixed votes controversy
- civil war between the north and the south
- goal wanted to bring the northern states back to the union
continuing presentations
Revolutionary war
- 1775-1783
- fought by colonist vs. the loyalist
- George Washington john Adams
- impact: free from Britain
- fought mainly because of slavery
- 29 people signed it
- leader: George Washington
- December 16 1773
- led by Samuel Adams
- June 1 1812 - December 24 1814
- boosted manufacturing capabilities
- 1775- 1783
- declaration of independence 56 people
- important people: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, treaty of Paris-September
Conflict leads to Secession: the Dred Scott Decision and Southern Secession. Lincoln became president
Wednesday:
finishing presentations:
John Dickinson
Articles of confederation:
- 48 signed
- 13 articles
- it failed because
- ratified June 21, 1788
- 40 people signed
- youngest signer- Johnathan Dayton- 28
- gives people basic rights
- two things the constitution do : gives rights and there branches of government
- 1813-1840
- instead of people trading and and making them, they started making things in big factories
- things invented- roads, canals, telegraphs, steamboats
- infrastructure- making traveling better(look up not for sure on answer)
negative affects : they felt didn't get paid, and weren't treated fairly.
women were paid less then women.
the start and end of the civil war:
- started: April 12th 1881
- key people: Clara Barton- created the red cross
- Fredrick Douglass- slave, became a leader for African americans
- Outcome of the civil war: 1.5 million fought for union
- 1.2 million fought for confederate
- separatist looking to escape Europe Religious Freedom
- 1st time they failed to make it
- 2nd time they arrived in Massachusetts
- positives impact: started the united states
- negative impact: native americans attacked
- 56 men signed it
- positive affect : bill of rights and constitution
- Positive affect: the white settlers got to grow cotton
- negative affect: a lot of native americans lost their lives
- 1862- 1863
- started the process to abolish slavery
- between union (against slavery) and confederacy (pro slavery)
- slavery was not the goal of the civil war, the goal was to united the confederacy with the union.
- Impact: kind of brought the two together
- negative: lots of rebuilding
exploration- going to find
colonization- to go and settle
why did people come to the new world to live
- religious freedom
- farming, gold
Wednesday:
watched a movie about labor day
Columbus- sailed for Spain, all 4 trips went to Caribbean islands,
Magellan- sailed for Spain, proved the world was round, his crew was the 1st to sail around the world, died in the Philippians
cortez- sailed for Spain,
Pizarro- conquered
ponce de leon- sailed for Spain, explored Florida, fountain of youth.
Henry Cabot- sailed for England.
France- central- eastern Canada.
England- 13 colonies- northern Canada.
Revolutionary war- war between Britain and 13 colonies, got our independence.
Don't tread on me- early state flag, used for the movement of freedom, don't put all these rules on me.
colonies were mad at Britain because of taxation without representation, means the colonies didn't have say.
decoration of independence- July 4 1776- the war started 1775. the world trade center is 1,776 tall.
the decoration of independence- says what the king Henry III did to the colonists.
the articles of confederation failed because it gave power to the states and they weren't working together.
what are the 2 major things does- gives our right and sets up our government. three branches of government- judicial, legislator, executive. Judicial- has the final say on the laws, executive- enforces the laws.
west ward expansion- what was the boarder after the R war- the Mississippi river
Friday-
reviewing for test:
Louisiana purchase- Thomas Jefferson was president, know five states that make it up.
Louis and Clark- mapped
organ territory- 1846
1830, Texas war for independence- Texas was part of mexico. they opened it for us to go in. they had to be roman catholic, no slaves, issues led to war. Mexicans won the alimony war. then Texas won the independence. what happened to taxes after the war: Texas become an independent country. How did we get Texas: we annex Texas. a decade after, 1840, the Mexican american war.
Mexican american war: the fought over the boarder, nobody knew. we thought it was the Rio grande. mexico thought it was a little bit further.
mexico thought we crossed the border because we were right up next to the Rio grande. we kind of started the war. we won. before the war, we already had Texas. we got half of mexico. Mexican cession- Nevada, Colorado, California, Arizona.
civil war- south thought Lincoln was going to abolish slavery, but he wasn't going in
13 amendment- end slavery
union had more people
union had more manufacturing
south had more farm land
union had more food
navy had union
south had better reason to fight
south Robert general le
Jefferson Davis- president of south
Getty's burg address
Lincoln assassination
reconstruction-1865-1877: the period of time after the civil war in which the south had to be rebuilt and be brought back into the union.
president Lincoln and president Johnston wanted to be easy on the south.
that changed in the 1866
Andrew Johnston was impeached
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