Blog discussion day!!!!
1. Exploration and Colonization -King Philip's war-the colonists wanted more land, so they started taking it from the indians, king philip was originally from an indian tribe, the colonists won and got land from native americans, it was the bloodiest war fought on american soil.
Exploration was earlier like colombus. Colonization was after like jamestown, to get money, etc.
2. Revolutionary War -Patrick Henry was born in virginia, originally wanted to be in politics, one of the original founders of the militia, famous speech "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" willing to fight and die for our freedom.
Battles at Lexington and Concord, the battle wasn't that bad, it was the period leading up to the battles and what happened afterward, Militias are a rag tag group of regular people, general washington was able to hear about what the british were going to do, so they hid the weapons and one of the big places was Concord, one of the 3 people was Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride.
Women in the Revolutionary War-My blog post
Boston Tea Party- "No Taxation without Representation" meaning, they didn't want to be taxed by a parliment that they weren't being represented by (Britian) The tax on tea was the only tax on the colonists at this point, the people that dumped over 90,000 pounds of tea dressed like native americans while they were dumping tea into the harbor. After this happened, great britain repealed with the "intolerable acts" by patroling boston and arresting people more harshly for what they did.
Winter at Valley Forge- George Washington had to move there after he was defeated, they built log huts, there was influenza, dysentary, etc. 2/3ds of the men there died from these diseases, Ivaan Stuben was hired to help get Washingtons army back on their feet, and he helped them survive the disease, during this winter his army got stronger.
George Washington- Born Feb 22nd, the leader of the French and Indian war, which was where he got his leadership skills, became general of the continental army, was asked to train over 14,000 men, it was his idea to put smallpox into the cut to immunize his soldiers, he took his troops across the deleware river to surprise attack the british in Trenton and he won, he was unanimously voted to be the president (only president to ever be unanimously voted in)
3. Westward Expansion - The Oregon Trail, it took six months, started in Independence, missouri, used for 5 years, the fur traders and explorers were the first people to travel the trail, there was a lot of death (10,000) 12-15 miles a day, some people walked the whole way!! O.o The Mormon Trail-2 big parts- 1.)from iowa to the southeast.
4, Industrial Revolution of the early 1800's
5. Civil War and Reconstruction
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