1. Describe Native American cultures before and after the arrival of the Europeans. moved around and followed buffalo, monatic (moved around) hunters, lived off the land, family was vey important, farmers, hunters and gatherers, fisher people. europeans brought dieseases, they kept on moving them to different places cause they wanted their land.2. Describe reasons why Europeans started exploring in the late 1400’s. christopher coulmbus was looking for a quicker way to get to china to trade.3. List the major countries(including main explorers) that explored the New World and where they settled. five countries: England, France, Spain are the 3 major, Portugal and Netherlands. Protugal settled in Brazil, Spain in Mexico, central america, western america and some of south america. France had canada and the lower part of US. England settled in the east coast and netherlands in the new york area.4. Describe reasons why Europeans came over from Europe and the problems they faced. Religious Freedom, searches for riches, better opertunities, slavery, i dept or in trouble in Europe, they died of dieseas, native americans, not knowing the land, weather conditions5.Describe the impact the French and Indian War had on the American colonies. ended in 1763 , french and indians lost , war left brittian in massive dept and desided to tax the colonies, france lost and the were kicked out of canada and brittian took over.6.Describe the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War. colonies wanted indpendence, no taxation w/out representation(dont want to be taxed w/out parliment(government)), boston masscre... killed 5 prople, boston tea party...dumped millions of dollars of tea in to the sea, effect...gave us independence, brittian was pushed to canada.7.Describe the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and what it talked about. Freedom, it lead to war, most of the doc was what george the 3rd did to us.8.Describe the set up of the Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government. was a government that was set up to give the states were more powerful than the government, like 13 little countries, wasnt cohessive.9.Describe what the US Constitution does(including amendments). protects our rights(freedom of speech, press,right to bare arms, ect.), people in washington DC couldnt vote, the 3 braches judicial...courts, legislative...government, exectuive...president.10.Describe the causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence. war between texas and mexico, mexico was inviting prople into the texas area and the had rules...no slaves, and u had to be catholic but the people didnt listen, the first war that they had the texans won11.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.
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