Week of August 31-4

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
North american Cultures:
  • native americans trade took place in 1400
  • different groups
Louisiana Purchase:
  • in 1803
  • $11,250,000
  • led to the expansion of the united states
English settlement in Jamestown:
  • 1607
  • Key people: John smith
  • Impact: first settlement to raise tobacco
 Ancient Cultures In America
  • no one knows when the aztec first came 
The first Americans
Christopher Columbus
  • 1492
  • tried to get to Asia for new trades, but found america
  • started slave trades
Birth of a nation:

The birth of industry:

  • things were either powered by steam or goal
  • we were based on agriculture and became more with the industry
A house divided:
  • 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
Tuesday: 
continuing presentations
Revolutionary war
  • 1775-1783
  • fought by colonist vs. the loyalist
  • George Washington john Adams
  • impact: free from Britain
Civil war:
  • fought mainly because of slavery
Constitution
  • 29 people signed it
  • leader: George Washington 
Boston Tea Party:
  • December 16 1773
  • led by Samuel  Adams 
War of 1812:
  • June 1 1812 - December 24 1814
  • boosted manufacturing capabilities 
American Revolutionary war: 
  • 1775- 1783
  • declaration of independence 56 people
  • important people: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, treaty of Paris-September 
The underground Railroad: not an actual railroad, allowed slaves to go to different house so they could get to the north.
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 
Constitution:
  • 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
Market Revolution:
  • 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)
Samuel F.B. Morse- inventor of the telegraph
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
Pilgrims came to america:
  • 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 
Declaration of Independence-1776
  • 56 men signed it
  • positive affect : bill of rights and constitution
Trail of Tears- 1830
  • Positive affect: the white settlers got to grow cotton
  • negative affect: a lot of native americans lost their lives
Emancipation Proclamation:
  • 1862- 1863
  • started the process to abolish slavery
Civil War- 
  • 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
Ten events that shaped us history to 1877(go over power point)
exploration- going to find
colonization- to go and settle  
why did people come to the new world to live
  • religious freedom
  • farming, gold 
What was the west when when we were the colonies? Application Mountains
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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