1.Describe Native American cultures before and after the arrival of the Europeans.( nomadic foolowed animals to hung, they lived of the land. a Green culture. Depended on enviorment didn't waste anything. Hunters and gatheres, fishermen.) They brought desease wanted to conquer the land, we pushed them on to reservations.2.Describe reasons why Europeans started exploring in the late 1400’s. ( Wanted to get to asia trade silk spices etc. Columbus wanted to sail west to see of it was a shorter route to Asia. Land, Money, Power, Riches, They did everything in the land of the lord.3.List the major countries(including main explorers) that explored the New World and where they settled.( England, France, Spain, Portugual, Dutch/ Netherlands.) Spain-central america, and western part of the U.SFrench- Canada and missipit river. English- eastern seaboard of the United States. Dutch- New york. Brazil-portugal. pizzaro,Cortez4.Describe reasons why Europeans came over from Europe and problems they faced.( Religious Freedom, Opurtunity, fur trade or farm. They were in debt or in trouble in Europe. Poor white Europeans. Desaease, lack of food, Native Americans, weather conditions, wild animal attacks.5.Describe the impact the French and Indian War had on the American colonies.( ended in 1763 French and Indains vs British and colonies for land. The British won. The British were taxing the colonies beacause of the war, and because Britain was greatly in debt. Great Britain took over Canada and France was kicked out.6.Describe the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War ( No taxation without representaion. Boston Massacer, Boston tea party colonist dumped millions of dollars worth of tea into the harbor. We got indipendence, Our boundary was now the mississippi river, and people were killed and the British were pushed to Canada)7.Describe the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and what it talked about.( The document were we declared ourself as an independent country. Show the world that we had a reason to go to war.)8.Describe the set up of the Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government.( Was a goverment set up that gave the state goverment most of the power. It was like 13 small countries. The federeal goverment was to weak to get anything done)9.Describe what the US Constitution does(including amendments). ( Protects our rights, Freedom of speech, right to bare arms, freedom of press. 17 amendments. Our goverment, judicial supreme court, legislative congres, executive president of the United States.10.Describe the causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence. ( Texas vs Mexico was inviting people from the u.s they were supossed to follow to rules, no slaves, and have to be catholic. The texans fought of indipendence. They were a indipendent country for a while until they anexed.11.Describe the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War.12.Describe how the US grew as a nation.13.Describe reasons people moved westward in the early parts of our history and the problems they faced.14.Describe some new technologies/inventions that came about in the 1800's that changed the face of the US forever.15.Describe how the North and South developed differently.16.Describe major events, compromises and incidents leading up to the Civil War.-Compromise of 1820, Compromise of 1850, popular sovereignty, Dred Scott Case, John Brown's Raid, Lincoln's election, South's secession17.Describe the North's and South's goals in the Civil War.18.Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War.19.Describe what Reconstruction did to the South and the rest of the country.Be able to give examples of stories from the video. For example, when asked what problems people faced moving west(#13), mentioning the Donner party would be great!Tags:
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