Today some more groups gave presentations.
Columbus discovers america:
- born in Geno, Italy
- began sialing at 10
- recieved royal approval from spain in 1492
- Santa Maria became ship wrecked and destroyed in Cuba
Louisiana Purchase:
- Thomas Jefferson wanted the port of New Orleans
- largest land purchased in history
- Final cost $15 million ($283,000)
- triggered the gold rush
- Was 828,000 square miles
War of 1812:
- confirmed once and for all American Independence
- The Impression Issue is were they forced American sailors to work for their ship and their government
- Napolean was defeated April of 1814
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln:
- Booth the killer was famous in acting
- 2 weeks after his death the southern armies fall
- his death was the turning point of the war
Monroe Doctrine:
- created so europeans could'nt expand their colonies into ours
- This ended the trade between the 2
Trail of tears:
- By the 1840s few natives were still living in the southeastern U.S.
- They were all working the cotton fields for white settlers
California Gold Rush:
- John Sutter moves to California and builds Sutter's Fort in 1848
- James Marshall is hired and discovers gold
- Sam Brannan revealed proof of gold near sacramento
- News spread around the country, and the rush accelerated in late 1848
- People traveled over land with wagons through deserts and mountains
- People traveled by sea by boats and steam boats through fierce storms and sickness
- Many sea travelers did'nt know that the gold was 150 miles inland
- Most miners were actually of other trades
- The Gold Rush soon attracted the wrong crowd
- Most miners had troubles affording basic supplies
- Brought people to the west and expanded our nation
- brought back the U.S. currency
Trans continental railroad
- 1st convention for the railroad was held in 1838 by John Plumbre
- In 1862, Congress passed and President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Bill
- Central Pacific Railroad Co. and Union Pacific Railroad Co. were the 2 companies
- Cenral set a record of laying 10 miles of track in one day
Civil War:
- Economic diffrences between the North and South
- Growth of the Abolition Movement
- South Carolina left the Union when Lincoln became president
- Then 6 more left after them (MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, and TN)
- 1st battle of bull run, battle of shiloh, battle of antietam, battle of gettysburg, and surrender at appomattox were the major battles of the war
- 620,000 deaths total
Underground railroad:
- Slaves ran away in the middle of the night and were always on the move
- Harriot Tubman helped the slaves escape
- The slaves tried to find safe houses
French and Indian War:
- War over who would get control of the land and colonies
- The English came in control of the colonies, but at a cost
The constitution:
- There are 28 amendments
- Written in 1787
- Ben Franklin wrote it
The Alamo:
- Originally a mission settlement
- It was a very important battle of the Texas Revolution
The Great Awakening:
- Happened in the 1730's and 1740's
- Inspired schools for free of religon spread
Idusrtrial revolution:
- 1750-1850
- Development of steam powered ships and railways and factories
The crossing of the land bridge:
- it is an imaginary bridge from Russia to Alaska
- that land bridge was a large glacier
- it arose 70,000 years ago and it disappeared about 145,000 years ago.
Slave Trade:
- slave trade: African's had been traded as slaves for centuries
- Portugal was reponsible for transporting over 4.5 million slaves
- lots of slaves died on long trips (40-50 days)
- Slaves were packed very tight in hard conditions
- Some ships had small poxs and other diseases that killed slaves
- About 54,000 voyages were made
- Spain was one of the biggest slave traders
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