Aug 28th-Sept 1st

[6Hannah]

Monday

• Introduction
• Ten events that shaped us history to 1877
  • Native Americans are coming (to north and south America) and going
  • Exploration (1492-early 1600’s)
  • Colonization (early 1600’s-1700’s)
  • Revolutionary war (1775-1783)
  • Us constitution (1789)
  • Westward expansion(1800’s)
  • Texas war for independence (1835-36)/Mexican-American
  • Civil war (1861..

 

• Civil war (slavery)- discussion
• 1812 (not on the list)- discussion
• Revolutionary war – French and Indian war- discussion
  • Native Americans come to America/ map, what did Europeans and Americans do to them
• Map of early voyages of discovery and exploration (Columbus, Magellan, Cortez..)

Tuesday

• Columbus
• Sir Francis Drake of England
• Pizarro of Spain who met the Incas                          =famous sailors who discovered parts of America
• Coronade of Spain, middle America
• Cabot of England

 

• Colonization of America
  • Spain: settled south west united states, Florida, central America, western south America
  • Portuguese; Brasil
  • French; Canada, central united states up to Canada

 

• 13 colonies, south to north: Georgia, north and south Carolinia, Virgina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvenia, New York, Conneticut, Rode island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire

 

• French-Indian war; 1754-1763
• The proclamation of 1763: 1763
• The Townshend acts, 1767
• The Boston massacre, 1770
• The Boston tea party, 1773
• The intolerable acts, 1774
• The first congregational congress, 1774
• Republican tea party in 2009
• Gatson flag: yellow flag with a rattle snake and the quote: “Don’t tread on me”
• Join or die cartoon of Benjamin franklin
• Declaration of independence (short summery)
• Great Britain is taking the right: there for we have the right and the duty
• John Hancock
• 1781-1788; The Un-United States of America
• Articles of confederation- result of identified weakness
  • Taxation
  • The us-constitution
    • Sense of our government
    • Protects our rights
    • separation of powers
    • Checks and Balance system: keeps the balance (no king but laws)
    • Father of constitution: James Madison
    • Two houses of congress: houses of representatives
    • Senators of the united states: 100; two per state

Wednesday

• Continuation with the ten events that shaped us history
• Repetition of Tuesday
• Quiz/ Game about congress; president; us supreme court, us supreme court justice and representatives (class half against other class half)
• What is the us constitution?
  • It’s the supreme law of the united states
  • It sets up our government and its responsibilities
  • It protects the state’s and people’s rights
  • It’s a “living’ document
  • Bill of rights (free speech, free of religion..)
  • O.J. Simpson (football player) and his life/ history
  • Repetition legislative Branch
  • Repetition executive Branch

Thursday

• Judicial Branch
• Why people did move west: job, hunting, just living in the mountains
• Us territorial acquisitions map
• Territory of the original thirteen states 1783
• Louisiana Purchase 1803 (from France): Nebraska, Iowa, Montana, South Dakota, Missouri
• Spanish session 1819
• Texas Annexation 1895 (former republic of Texas)
• Oregon Territory 1846
• Mexican Cession 1848 (Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona)
• Gadson Purchase 1853 (from Mexico)
• Alaska Purchase 1867 (from Russia)
• Lewis and Clark expedition
• Texas war for independence 1835-1836
  • Stephen F. Austin & Sam Houston
  • Texas won and became independent (for 6 years: 1839-45)
  • They had their own flag and seal
  • 1846-1848: war for the Mexican/Texas border
  • Civil war 1861-1865
    • Main causes: Sectionalism, Slavery, States’ rights, tariffs, election of 1860 & secession
    • Missouri Compromise 1820
      • Line of 36-30 / Missouri compromise line was drawn (splitting north and south)
      • Compromise of 1850
      • Missouri compromise line was kind of stopped
      • Slave states in south east
      • Dred Scott Decision 1857

Friday

• Short clip about Labor day/ work earlier and the history behind that/ reason
• Dred Scott (Slave who became free) Decision 1857
  • It was said that blacks were not us citizens
  • Suddenly slavery could be open everywhere
  • Slave states: south and south east
  • Free states north east
  • Territories: north west
  • The north won the civil war because they had more resources, more inhabitants (9 millions)
  • The south had a better reason to fight because some people of the north didn’t care about anything. They just didn’t liked slavery.
  • Reconstruction 1865-1877
    • The period of time after the civil war in which the south had to rebuild in the union
    • President’s Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the South
    • That changed in the 1866 Congressional election and with Lincoln’s death
    • (Impeached presidents)
    • Republican Radical Reconstruction
      • Rebuilt south economically, socially, politically and physically
      • Split south into 5 districts, controlled by us army
      • 13^th, 14^th, 15^th amendments
      • Freedom’s bureau supported slaves
      • These governments set up… in the south
      • Carpetbaggers and scalawags
        • Northern born white republicans who moved south after the war
        • Southerners believed these people were betraying the south