Today we are going to start presenting our 8th grade history project. Here are some facts we learned;
- Christopher Columbus, August 3rd fourteen ninety two. He was the first person from a different country to find america. He was trying to find a faster way to sail to Asia, but instead found America. He started the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
- The Constitution - 1787. The Articles of Confederation were the first laws, and it failed. The major points of it are the rights, and how the government. The executive, legislative, and the judicial branch.
- Civil War - 1861-1865. It was mainly about slavery. It brought the south back into the union. If a new state came there had to be a balance or people would fight about it. It destroyed farms, towns and major cities. In the end, it still didn't solve the problems of African Americans becoming equal.
- The Land Bridge - 40,000 years ago. Indians found the land bridge on the way to hunt mammoths. It brought new people here all the way down to the tip of South america
- Revolutionary War - 1775-1783. The British taxed the colonists even though they weren't even there. We got our freedom from the war. They were taxed to pay the debt of Great Britain.
- The Louisiana Purchase - 1803. It was bought for 15 million from the French. It ran out the Indians, while doubling america in size.
- The Thirteen Colonies - The first colony was Virginia and they came to practice their own religion, and created the country. It started a difference between the north and the south, causing the slave trade and the civil war.
- The Alamo - December 1835. There was a big fight for thirteen days, every single Texan died who fought. That was when they realized that they should surrender. But they didn't surrender. Instead they won the war. Texas was their own country for under a decade, and they were called the Lone Star Republic.
- Trail of Tears - 1838-1839. The USA government forced them from their own land to Indian territory. Tribes were kicked out of their own land. They broke their promises and took their land.
- 1620 - The Mayflower Compact, a statement on what they hoped to accomplish when they came to America.
- Lewis and Clark - 1804-1806. A trip where Lewis and Clark explored the west to find out what a waterway to the pacific ocean.
- War of 1812 - The White House was burned down and neither side won, they signed a treaty and it was a worthless fight between America and Britain.
- Industrial Revolution - 1760-1840. A time period that changed the manufacturing industry. Used child labor and paid them less.
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