Monday- Went over a review for the test
- Constitution was made to get rid of Articles of Confederation
- Sets up government
- Protects our rights (take away rights)
- Three Branches:
- Legislative (Congress- Senate and House of Representatives)makes laws
- Executive- President- enforces
- Judicial- Supreme Court- interprets laws
- 27 Amendments
- Western Boundary- Mississippi River
- Louisiana Purchase for $15 million
- Purchased by Thomas Jefferson
- Florida from Spain
- Oregon Territory (Treaty with Great Britain)
- Texas War for Independence 1830's
- Invited people in, but Mexican government said you must be Catholic and no slaves
- Battle of Alamo (Mexico won)
- Texas was an independent country (lone star republic for about a decade)
- Rio Grande was area in between Texas and Mexico
- Mexican Session ($20 million)
- California, Nevada, Utah, Part of Arizona and Colorado and New Mexico
- 1860 Election (Abe Lincoln)
- South were the Confederates because the southern states want to have more power
- North wanted South to join back in the country
- North had a better advantage than the South
- Reconstruction-
- 10 year Office Act
- Republican Radical Reconstruction (12 years)
- Set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, industrialized the South, helped ex-slaves
- 13th no slavery, 14th blacks were citizens, and 15th blacks could vote Amendments passed
- Jim Crow laws- Racists things happened (Segregation)
- The Compromise of 1877
Tuesday- Test
Wednesday- Test
Thursday- Talked about Next Projects
Friday- Review over Projects
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