Today, we discussed our test that we will be having on tuesday over our eighth grade review blogs
Then, we did blog discussions
REMEMEBER WHAT THE CONSTITUTION DOES
protects our rights and sets up the government
11. early development of u.s. political parties
started 1792
jefferson and hamilton disagreed on the banks and the u.s constitution
jefferson strictly believed in the constitution and hamilton was more leanient toward it
hamilton supported the national bank
the national bank started taxing people and
jefferson didn't think that there should be a national bank
hamilton was a federalist and jefferson was anti-federalist
george washington supported jefferson to the point where hamilton resigned
hamilton's vision is reallly what we became
12. accomplishments of washington, jefferson, and jackson
washington:
first president
was a precident setting president
he stepped down after two terms
he set up the cabinet
help supreme court get going
everyone looked at him as the leader
jefferson:
believer is less governmet
purchased the louisana purchase
jackson:
people's president
tough guy
he strengthed the role of the federal government
tough on native americans forcing native americans out of their homes
established the first national bank
13. causes and effects of the war of 1812
the united states and great britian
the impressment- the british wouldn't stop siezing the american saliors which greatly upset the united states
there were disagreements on who won
many agreed that great britian won because of the treaty of gent which kind of ended the war
the effects
united stated gained respet from great britian
14. causes and effects of the texas war for independence
conflict between mexican government and
they were supposed to convert to catholisism, get rid of slaves, learn spanish and become mexicanized
all the tension lead to war
the alimo:
texas won the war
effects:
independence
was known as the lone star state
were independent until the u.s. anexed them
15. causes and effects of the mexican american war
causes:
territory
america thought the line went down the the rio grande and mexico thought that they were invading
war was instigated by the united states
to get land
unjust war
effects:
the united states won and got a bunch of land
the treaty of guatalupe ended the war
we paid them 15 million dollars for the southwest part of the united states
we got about 50% of mexico
16. reasons why people moved westward in early parts of our history
the gold rush. 1849. drew people out west
there wasn't as much gold as they thought
they also moved west for religious freedom
farmland was a big reason too
some moved for adventure
some to escaped legal problems
manefestationany
17. major events compromises and incidents leading up to the civil war
the underground railroad
hariet tubman is a major person in the underground railroad
dredscott case
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