8/21/13 Today groups are going to present after a little more work time. We are taking notes in this blog.
Christopher Columbus' real mission was to try to find a faster way to Asia and then he discovered America. He brought back riches, like maybe gold eventually and slaves, and diseases.
The Constitution. The Articles of Confederation was the first government of the U.S. The problem with them was they had very little and it ended up being 13 little states. Constitution is the supreme law.The Bill of Rights. It gave us the freedom of speech, region...etc. You have rights, it protects peoples right. Right to bear arms. Women's right to vote...etc. Three branches of the government. Executive President veto laws, Legislative congress makes laws/declare war, and the Judicial branch supreme court declare laws/decide weather laws are constitutional or not. Checks and balances system makes sure one branch doesn't get to powerful. Its a living document that we keep adding to it with amendments.
Civil War-battle between the North and the South over slavery. The North won. Slavery was ended. The South was brought back into the union/country. A lot of people died. Development of things after the war the were against the black like the KKK.
We will continue this again tomorrow.
8/22/13 Today we are continuing what we did yesterday which is presenting groups top teen lists.
Native Americans Crossing The Land Bridge- B.C. They came over for food and the people who went into Alaska are now called Eskimos.
Revolutionary War- 1775-1783 Colonists came over here and the British taxed kept taxing them and they didn't like it so they went to war and it was the Battle of Saratoga and we won and we got the French's help to beat the British. Although we lost trading with Britain. Taxes were lowed and completely gone with Britain which was great. France was broke after the war.
Louisiana Purchase 1803 it doubled the size of the U.S. Gave us more land to farm. Cheap.
Texas War- The Alamo,1830 all Texans died. Texas was its own state hence lone-star. We and Mexico did not get along very well because we took a chunk of their land.
Trail of tears- 1839 land was safe from attacks if you were white. U.S. gov forced in the SE from their homes into OK.
Salem Witch Trials- people were accused of being witches. Innocent people died.
8/23/13
We are continuing telling the class our group top ten lists from 8th grade.
Oregon Trail- 2,000 mile long trail more trade came along and easy travel. A lot of people died trying to get to where they wanted to.
Lewis and Clark 1804-1806 land we bought from the Louisiana Purchase. Documented animals and plants. Found more Indians and tribal.
War of 1812-14-15 British were trying to suppress the country and they started a war. Nobody really won because they pretty much worked it out and quit fighting.
Impressment was when people stopped U.S naval ships and took people off of them.
Industrial Revolution- 1760-1840 time period that changed the manufacturing industry they had more assembly lines and factories and machinery and child labor. The conditions were terrible. Better trade and just having stuff and faster making. Helped with population.
MR. Brun's Top Ten List
Native Americans Coming and Going- ten to 40,000 years ago. Killing them off or forcing them off would mean going. They came across on land bridge.
Columbus and Exploration- 1492-1607 coming over and discovering. Spain Portugal Dutch/Netherlands. Disease.
Jamestown and Colonization- 1607-1770 Brazil was controlled by Portugal. Spain had much of U.S. Dutch had South America. France Canada. Know these five main England Spain France Portugal Dutch.
Revolutionary War- Don't tread on me, great Britain on the colonists.
Declaration of Independence- Declare from Britain for independence. He, he, he, he, is referring to King George the Third.
US Constitution- We the people. Supreme law of the land. Protects our rights. Freedom of speech. of press. etc. and it extends laws. The three branches. KNOW them.
Westward Expansion- manifest destiny is a god given belief that we should own everything from sea to shining sea. US boundary.
8/26/13
Today we talked about things on the board that need to be done and a podcast that has been put up and are now continuing the top ten list.
Louisiana Purchase- 5 cents an acre. It was a huge chunk of land that doubled the us $15 million bout it from France.
Mexican-American War- 1830's mexico invited immigrants into Texas which was part of mexico and asked to be catholic and no slaves and they didn't follow those rules. Then the war broke out. Then Texas got its Independence for about 9 years. We won after about three years and we purchased a section from mexico. We just got land that we wanted. Mexico lost the land. War between US and Mexico setting boundaries.
Civil War-1861-1865 war between the north and south of our country over slavery. When a new state adds there was a conflict because of upset in congress. Lincoln.
Reconstruction- 1865-1877 where the southern states had to be brought back into the US.Great for the 12 years but should have lasted longer. KKK was bad.
Industrial Revolution.
War of 1812.
Women Suffrage. Vote.
Look on Mr. Bruns power point for more notes.
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