Mon. Aug. 30

1.Native American Cultures Before Europeans


Indians didnt waste any part of the animals and the elders had more respect than the younger people they got here after the ice age on a frozen brige and migrated all the way down to south ameica after the europeans came they brought over diseases that Indians weren't used to so they died


2.Reasons why Europeans

They wanted to christianize people, better and faster ships plus compasses land riches religous freedom money power and to escape debt



3.Reasons why Europeans started to explore in the 1400's



Major countries and explorers that explored new world and where they settled

Spain, France, England, Portugal, Dutch Leif Erickson discovered New Foundland sailed for Vikings Colombus sailed for Spain he found the Carribean area Vasco DeGama from Portugal Magellan first crew to go around the world Spanish settled in Central and South America and southwest United States



4.Why Europeans wanted to come and live here



Differences between new england, middle and southern colonies

New England used all their wood for ships because they didnt have good soil also wanted good education middle also had a lot of trading and had decent soil for fertilizing crops south remained heavily off of the land and needed cheap workers



5. Differences between New England, Middle, and southern colonies


New england colony was more industrial because it didnt have fertile soil, middle colony was both industrial and agriculture did a lot of trading, southern colonies was very depenent on agriculture because of good soil


6.Causes and Effects of French and Indian War


Between French and the 13 colonies George Washington told the French to move out but they refused, it was basically about who would control the new land England beat the French so the had more land great britian took canada over from the french


7.Causes and Effects of the Revolutionary War


Boston tea party, boston massacre, taxes we got indepence after the war ended because Britains fled to Canada


8. Purpose of the Declaration of Indepence


main purpose was to set them selves free from britian and the type of government we should have


9. Set up of Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government


It was the united states first government system it didn't want a strong government so all power went to people and states the congress wasn't being listened to so they couldn't make or do anything only one house was congress lack of money and power


10. what the u.s. constitution does and what are the amendments


sets up our government with three branches, makes federal stronger than states the first ten amendments are the bill of rights, right to remain silent freedom of speech and religion, right to bear arms


11. early development of u.s. political parties


political parties didnt start til after washington's first term he preached against them but he also leaned towards one side, hamilton and jefferson both of his parties hamilton wanted rich to run things and jefferson was more focused on normal people

12.Accomplishments of jefferson, jackson, and washingtion

jackson believed in common mans right not in the rich and keep power away from the wealthy jefferson gave all the power to the rich

13. Causes and effects of the war of 1812

War between the u.s. and french biggest thing is impressment which was britian stopping u.s. ships and take people back to british ships, treaty of ghent ended the war wasn't really needed so it was wasteful

14. causes and effects for texas war of indepence

mexico was forcing people in texas to become catholic and speak spanish and the battle of gonzalez biggest battle was the alamo which mexico won but overall texas won the war and they got to become their own state

15. causes and effects of mexican and american war

when we won the war mexico thought we wanted their land we had different disputes over where the boundary lines are polk said he was protecting them from mexico we paid them 20 million and the southwest part of the united states

16. Reasons why people move westward

jobs, land, riches basically a better life some people lost everything and some got everything they could dream of plus the gold rush in 1849

17. Major events of civil war would be slavery, had an organization to help free slaves a lot of states seceded because of lincoln

18. Advantges of north and south during civil war

north advantages- more people, more supplies for war

south advantages - know their land, lot hotter than north

19. positive and negative effects reconstruction

had to get rid of slavery rules and rebuilt because of the war and economy and everything,

positive- 13, 14, and 15, ammendments gave rights to slaves, blacks were protected, freedman's bureau was to help african americans get jobs, education etc.

negative- blacks had most of the population in the south and were concerned because they had power now, stated the groups like KKK

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