We went over the content of tomorrows test.
We moved the Native Americans until we "needed" the land they were on.
The major countries that were exploring during the time period were, Spain, France, England, Netherlands, and Portugal.
Why did people come over here to live? Some came for freedom, they wanted their own land to farm, to find gold, and some were fugitives.
People settled over here, which started our nation. The Europeans brought over many diseases. Many events lead up to the Revolutionary War. "No taxation without representation." The war was due to the fact that the colonists wanted their freedom. We lost many men, but we got our freedom.
The US Constitution gave the people their rights, also they set up our three branches of government.
Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase. IA, NE, MO, SD, AR, parts of WY, MT, KS, CO, MN, OK, and ND. Lewis and Clark explored the new territory and discovered many new plants and animals.
Infrastructure is building up education, transportation, health care systems to shape the country.
The Mexican - American War was a war about boundary dispute. The United States thought the boundary was the Rio Grande, but the Mexicans thought it was the Nueces River.
The Civil War was the war between the North and South. The Southern states thought that President Lincoln was going to abolish slavery, which caused some Southern states to secede from the North. The 13-15th amendments were created after the war.
Reconstruction was when the North brought the South back into the Union. The South had to be reconstructed physically and socially. The South started segregation, they separated the whites and blacks. The South created the Jim Crow Laws which continued until the 1950s.
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