Monday: Mr.Bruns finished going over classroom rules and exectations. We will work on 7th grade review assignment more tomorrow.
Tuesday: Started 7th grade review assignment today and started presentation.
Wednesday: Jandy Petersen
Focus on studying
- Period of time
- Basic explanation of what happened
- Key people involved
- How did it impact the US both positively and negatively
- Key terms/people and other topics I stressed in class
Ten events that shaped US History to 1877 – Mr.Bruns
- Native Americans coming and going (forced) (10,000+ years ago)
- Exploration (1492 – early 1600s)
- Colonization (early 1600s – 1770s)
- Revolutionary War (1775- 1783)
- US constitution (1789)
- Westward expansion (1800s)
- Texas war for ind.,
Thursday:
Native Americans Going
- European explores eventually moved Native Americans out of the land, tried to Europeanize them.
- Lied, stole, cheated, to get Native Americans land and resources.
- Killed off the buffalo because they were important to the Native Americans
- Indian removal act – trail of tears (1830s – 40s)
- “we will give you money if you leave”
- 15,000 were forced from the southeast to Indian territory
- “Civilize and Christianize”
- Oklahoma was Indian territory
- Waged War
Exploration
- Finding new land AND what was on the land
- Spain
- France
- Great Britain
- Portugal
- 4 that explored the most
- Wanted to get to Asia for the spices
- Went around Africa instead of going through Italy. Italy had high prices.
Major Spanish explorers
- Christopher Columbus – went to Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, CARIBBEAN
- Magellan – first person to sail around the world
- Coronado – explored central of the united states, got very close to Iowa
- Cortez – concurred the Aztecs, found a lot of gold
- Pizarro – concurred the Incas
- Ponce de Leon – settles Florida, Florida was Spain’s
English explorers
- Cabot – explored Northeastern part of the united states, Canada, north east passage
- Drake – went up and down the coast of South and North America. Also went around the world
What were explorers after?
- MONEY
- GOLD
- Whatever they could make money on
- Sugar cane
Spain settled in Florida, southwest united states, most of eastern south America, and Caribbean
Portugal settled in brazil
French settled in central united states and Canada
Great Britain settled in northern Canada, east coast united states
13 colonies
- Georgia
- South Carolina
- North Carolina
- Virginia
- Maryland
- Delaware
- New jersey
- Pennsylvania
- New York
- Massachusetts
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- New Hampshire
Revolutionary war
The French and Indian war (1754-1763) – Great Britain and colonist won
- “no taxation without representation” in British parliament
- Great Britain rose taxes because they needed money
The proclamation of 1763 (1763)
The Townshend acts (1767)
- “we have the right to tax you
The Boston massacre (1770)
- 5 killed
The Boston Tea Party (1773)
- Sons of liberty dressed up as native Americans and go to Boston Harbor and dump Tea in the Harbor
- Closed the Harbor until payed back
The intolerable Acts 1774 (1774)
- Would not tolerate acts like the Boston Tea Party
- Quartering act
- Took away Massachusetts charter – ruled by king
The First Congregational Congress (1774)
- Got together to try and fix all the problems and that lead to the revolutionary war
Friday: New forum post leaders. Review how to daily blog and forum comments.
Benjamin Franklin’s “join or die” first political cartoon
- Rattle snake with colonies initials.
- Saying that the colonies need to come together
Declaration of independence
- “We have the right to over throw the British government because they aren’t treating us right”
- “he” is King George the 3rd – specific things that he did – taxing without representations – quartering soldiers -
- We clarified as independent
The articles of confederation
- Before George Washington
- Gave power to the states – they didn’t like having a king, so they didn’t want one person in control
- The Un-United States of America – 13 colonies seemed like 13 little countries
Weakness
- Taxation – money requests not always honored by states; no predicable national income
- No national military – states could ignore requests for militia/troops; hard to coordinate national defense
- One vote per state – populous states underrepresented; lack of equal access for citizens
Constitution convention – 1787
- Founding fathers met to try and fix the articles of confederation and make them better
- Ended up replacing it with the constitution
US Constitution
- Living document that establishes our government in 3 branches and protects our rights
- Founding fathers knew the articles weren’t working so the constitution came about
- Separation of power – judicial, legislative, executive branch
- Every branch has checks and balances on the other branches
- James Madison 4th president – father of the constitution
- Two houses of congress – senate and house of representatives
- 100 senators = 2 per state
- Based on population of state = 435
- 6 years for senate, must be 30 years old
- 2-year terms for house, must be 25
- Powers congress has
- Make laws
- Set taxes
- Declare wars
- Override vetoes
- Borrow money
- Regulate international and national trade
- Print money
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