Friday, August 31st, 2012

navtive american crossing the land bridge;

thousand years ago

important because they were able to popluate

chris coloumbus;

he arrived in 1492, he acrossed the world cause he thought it was flat but then he hit the land.

13 colonies;

first one was  virgina and last one was georgia.

the foduation of our country

French and Indinia War;

britain defeated.

after the war britain control canada south of the mississippi and french didnt own any land after.

George Washington

he was the only president to get all of the elctoral college

he died in Decemeber from playing the snow.

Relvolutionary War

the war was a result of a plotional american relvoltion.

and after the war the declartion of indepence was signed.

a war between british and american for our freedom

it ended with an american victory

25,000 americans died from this war

Lewis and Clark

they followed the mssouri to get to the west coast.

they sailed through harsh weather conditions

they also had to face strange animals and people.

Thomas Jefferson wanted them to start this and it was going to help advance trading.

Map a route of the passage and to claim orgean territory for the US

Gold Rush;

was in 1848 gold nuggets were found in sacormento valley,

it hit its peak in 1852

it brought thousands new people to california

Civil War;

it was between south and north

this what held the united states together.

Assination of Abraham Lincoln

he died on good friday

john booth killed him, who shot him from behind.

lincoln was everyones fav prezzy

reconstructions-

was bringing everything back together after the war.

we presented..

Jamestown:

they arrived to late to plant crops and most were not used to working hard. They built house right when they got there. Everything changed when John Rulf planted tobacco

Lousiana Purchase;

we bought 828,000 square miles of land which is called lousiana purchase

SElf Evaluation

i think it went good, i could of had more content for jamestown tho.

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