8th grade review test tomorrow.
assigned blog #2.
due Sunday.
describe in detail what happened on 9/11.
who was responsible?
why did they do it?
impact on the people/ on your country.
worth 40 points.
due Sunday!
review.
native American removal.
1492-to late 1800's
got rid of the native Americans by trail of tears.
deals with them.
sometimes wars.
some died of disease.
killed off the buffalo.
Columbus and Exploration.
1492 and all of the 1500's early 1600's.
wanted a fast route to Asia.
wanted spices and silks.
brought a lot of riches over to their home countries.
Spain, France, England, Netherlands, Portugal.
Jamestown and Colonizations.
1600's in to the 1700's.
why did they come over to live?
to be free.
want their own land.
wanted riches.
maybe in trouble with the law.
maybe in debt.
Revolutionary War.
1700's into the 1780's
started to enforce taxes.
British and the colonists.
who make up the branches of government?
legislative branch.
congress
judicial branch.
supreme courts and federal courts.
Louisiana purchase.
boundaries?
Atlantic ocean to the Mississippi river.
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas also called The great plains.
doubled the size of the united states.
they discovered different plants and animals.
industrial revolution early 1800's.
building infrastructure.
brought prices down.
Mexican American war.
was a battle about land disputes.
defeated the Mexicans.
Mexico didn't like us very much after that.
civil war.
it was all about slavery.
north won.
large number of casualties.
gave blacks the right to vote.
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