we got a new assigned blog to do, we have to write about 9-11. we have to write about what happened that day.
topics we want to know for our 8th grade review test dates, events, and time periods.
there were 3 big exploring countries back when Columbus lived they were Spain, France, England, and then others like Portugal, and the Netherlands.
Revolutionary war: it was 1700's to the 1780's
started to enforce taxes.
British and the colonists
made up branches of government.
legislative branch: senate, and house (congress).
judicial branch: supreme courts, federal courts.
industrial revolution: building infrastructure such as building transportation systems, education systems, communication, factories, school, business's.
when we built the boundaries from Mexico we thought it was the Rio Grande, they said it was the Nucess river. so there was a war and we beat them fairly easy and thats how we got the states like Texas, California. that war was called Mexican-American war.
Civil War: there was a period of time after that, that the south had to be brought back into the union.
It was about the South wanting slaves and the north wants them free.
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