Today we continued presentations
Native americans crossing the land bridge-happened thousads of years ago, there crossed while searching for big game, importantbecause they wereable to poulate the county
christopher columbous-born october 1451, died may 1506. the king sent him to get spices in china but ended up in america.
colonies-founded in 1603 and 1733
frnch and indian war-1754-176'
revoultionary warit was a war over our independence. it began is 1776 we won and it resulted in our freedom about 37000 died during the war.
lewis and claark-the traveled through the lousiana territory to survey the land. 1804-1806 and was authorized by thomas jefferson. to native americans it was the beginning of the end. jeferson wanted to link the columbia nd missoroui rivers. the pourpose was to create a map, and claim oregon .
the gold rush of 1849-started in 1848, claifornias population went from 100 to 100000. in 1852 the gold rush hit its peak. people got the idea that they could ay of there debts and not work for the rest of there life.
civil war- the south states whanted less laws binding them and it also freed the slaves.
the assasination of lincoln-took lace on april 14th 1865. the assination was planed and exicuted by john wilkis booth
reconstructin from 1863 to 1869 abe lincoln and andrew jackson took action agaist the south to pull the us ack together.
settlement at james town-in 1607 people settled along the james river, this was the first big settlement in north america, it was named after the king of england, in 16 14 john rolfe began to harvest tobacco and he married pocahountas.
the constitution- the laews the founding father created, these are the highest laws in the united states, it was written in 1767.
the jeffersion era-was when jefferson was i office, he was responible for buying the louisana terratory.
indian removeal act- andrew wanted to remove the indians from their land, the native then fought back with warfare, this was the cause of the trail of tears, this cause atleast 4000 of them to die.
The oregon trail=was a route that crossed central an the western us
George washington presadency-in 1789 when he becmame the first president was a commander in the revolutionary ar. he recived 100% of the votes.
lousiana purchase- in 1803 france sold 828,00 square miles of land to us for a very cheap cost
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