4. describe why Europeans came over from Europe.
For ritches, gold fur trade. Religious freedom, they were forced over to be slaves. Endentured slaves, they worked off debt.
5. describe the diffrence between new england, the middle, and southern colonies.
New england started to have alot going on, like buisness, and finances.
6.describe the causes and effects of the french and indian war.
French and Indians were allies, and they were in war against the british. British wanted to kick out france and take over the general area. France wanted to keep it to keep trade with Indians, and they would probably get more land.The french lost, and British took over Canada. The english were unsucsessful. The effects were the line of proclemation, which is the farthest west that the French and Indians could move. Britian got in major debt, and they started enforcing taxes.
7.Causes and Effects of the revolutionary war.
The American Collonists and the british faught in this war. No taxation with no representation. This time period is when the stamp act took place. From that point on, communication was very difficult. Letters couldn't get through the mail. Everything added up, then war was started for independence. the quote "give me liberty, or give me death."
8. Describe the purpose of the declaration of independence.
The untied states declared independence. In the declaration it talks about how all men should be treated equaly. We are justified for declaring independence. The vas majority of the Declaration talks about how wrong the king of britian was to us.
9. Describe the set up of the Articals of Confederation and why it failed as a government.
It was set up so that congress could decide on when to go to war. Congress was set up with one per state, and there was no president.We got the thirteen colonies, that turned into the thirteen states. Most states would say no when federal goverment askes for money from the thirteen states. Back then, it was like the thirteen states were like their own little countries, they all had their own currency, and they didnt get along with other states at all. It ended with major failure, because they didn't get along, and all the states ran out of money. They decided to have a constitution to change the articles.
10. Describe what the u.s constitution does, including admenments.
it had been admended 27 times. The three branches are the Executive(president), Traditional branch(congress), and the Legislative branch(court). The bill of rights protects peoples rights, freedom of speech, right to not have cruel and un usual punishment, ect.. They generally protect peoples rights, extends rights to people, and sets up our government. Since 1790 we've only have 17 more admendments.
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