today mr. bruns started by telling us bout the upcoming test tomorrow. then he went over the assigned blogs. and wat we need for them.
16) descibe the reasons why people moved westward in the early parts of our history.
when people started moving west they werent suppose to because of britan. they moved west because of competition, gold rush, it was getting packed on the eastern side. people from europe went straight up. religious veiws also when they moved west they could farm and have more land so they could grow crops and not have to pay for everying.
17) major events, compermises, and insedents that lead to the cilval war
in the 1770s there were alot of slavery. it was a issue at the beginning of our history. the north was based on industry. it took forever to become a state because of the balance they had to keep. popular sovereignty new states voting to become a slave state or not. this was in the 1850's. there were many acts and compermises made before the civial war. some of them were...
-the missouri compermise
-kansas nebraska act
-dread scott- slaves were not people, and government could not ban slavery anywhere.
-slavery- there were 3 million slaves in the united states before the war broke out
north set up forts, and fort sumpner was the 1st one to be hit on. the confederates didnt like abe lincoln.
18) advanages of north and south
north:
the north was more industrilzed. and had more factories. had more railroads. the railroads could transport supplies down to the south where they were fighting.
south:
better conections with other countries. better cause to fight because if they lost the war then there would be no more slavery in the south. they also knew the land better because of the war being faught down there.
19) give positvie and negative effects reconstructions had on the u.s.
Negatives:
cities and farms had to be rebuilt physically. social fixing had to be done. the economy had to be fixed and worked out. what were the african americans gonna do?? becuase they couldnt really do anything but work with cotton. so they started the freemans bureau which helped teach afticans how to read and write so they could get a degree, but it ended 12 years later. kkk came about. they took it apon them selves to get rid of the african americans because they didnt like them.
positives:
freeman burman they helped african americans get degrees, and helped train they to do manythings. it ended in the early 1870's. southern racist person was gotten rid of. rewrote the constitution. made the government more pro black. the 13, 14, and 15th amendments, 13 got rid of slavery, 14th made the citizens, 15th gave they if they were male could vote. white women couldnt vote, woment felt that they were below them. they also rewrote state constitutions. so that slavery wasnt allowed, even though people found ways afound it,
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