1.Describe Native American cultures before and after the arrival of the Europeans. moved around and followed buffalo, monatic (moved around) hunters, lived off the land, family was vey important, farmers, hunters and gatherers, fisher people. europeans brought dieseases, they kept on moving them to different places cause they wanted their land.2. Describe reasons why Europeans started exploring in the late 1400’s. christopher coulmbus was looking for a quicker way to get to china to trade.3. List the major countries(including main explorers) that explored the New World and where they settled. five countries: England, France, Spain are the 3 major, Portugal and Netherlands. Protugal settled in Brazil, Spain in Mexico, central america, western america and some of south america. France had canada and the lower part of US. England settled in the east coast and netherlands in the new york area.4. Describe reasons why Europeans came over from Europe and the problems they faced. Religious Freedom, searches for riches, better opertunities, slavery, i dept or in trouble in Europe, they died of dieseas, native americans, not knowing the land, weather conditions5.Describe the impact the French and Indian War had on the American colonies. ended in 1763 , french and indians lost , war left brittian in massive dept and desided to tax the colonies, france lost and the were kicked out of canada and brittian took over.6.Describe the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War. colonies wanted indpendence, no taxation w/out representation(dont want to be taxed w/out parliment(government)), boston masscre... killed 5 prople, boston tea party...dumped millions of dollars of tea in to the sea, effect...gave us independence, brittian was pushed to canada.7.Describe the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and what it talked about. Freedom, it lead to war, most of the doc was what george the 3rd did to us.8.Describe the set up of the Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government. was a government that was set up to give the states were more powerful than the government, like 13 little countries, wasnt cohessive.9.Describe what the US Constitution does(including amendments). protects our rights(freedom of speech, press,right to bare arms, ect.), people in washington DC couldnt vote, the 3 braches judicial...courts, legislative...government, exectuive...president.10.Describe the causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence. war between texas and mexico, mexico was inviting prople into the texas area and the had rules...no slaves, and u had to be catholic but the people didnt listen, the first war that they had the texans won.11.Describe the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War. causes: the texans didnt want to follow the rules that the mexicans enforced, border disbutes, we invaded mexico to get our land and the mexicans fought back so polk told everybody that mexico started it, mexico hated us.12.Describe how the US grew as a nation. after the revolutionary war it was the atlantic ocean to the missssippi river, lousiana purschase 1801, 1821 puschased florida from spain, annex texas, mexican sessioun 1848, oregon territory 1846, gadson pursschase( where we were going to build the continential railroad.13.Describe reasons people moved westward in the early parts of our history and the problems they faced. religous rights, gold and silver rush, farming, cattle raching, adventures, escape trouble; not enough supplies, had to travel across mountians and rivers, wild animals, native american attacks, other peolpe, climate.14.Describe some new technologies/inventions that came about in the 1800's that changed the face of the US forever. cotton gin ( it seperates seeds from the cotton, made the need for more slaves and also brought prices down), the steel plow help plow up the great plains, the mini ball, more modern weapons, the telegraph cuts off weeks of travel and uses morse code, the steam boat and the railroad used for shipping goods, interchangable parts and assemble line, the loom helped lead to the computer15.Describe how the North and South developed differently. The south was more based on agriculture and the north was more based on industries.16.Describe major events, compromises and incidents leading up to the Civil War.-Compromise of 1820, Compromise of 1850, popular sovereignty, Dred Scott Case, John Brown's Raid, Lincoln's election, South's secession. Moussori comprimise of 1829 moussri had slaves and mississippi was free, compromise of 1850...california was a free state, fugitive slave law passed, popular sovereighty lasted for 7 yrs( the idea of letting the people decide if the state was free or slave), DC could have slavery, slave trade banned in DC; blacks were not us citizens so they couldnt sue in court, the dread scott case was not a possitive case in the north; john brown want ed to getrid of slavery, he was hoping that the slaves would help him win the war but they didnt so his children were killed and later he was hung; the south seceded from the north when linclon was voted president, they thought that he would abolish slavery17.Describe the North's and South's goals in the Civil War. their first goal was to save the union (original goal) and then to end slavery for the north... the souths goal was to keep slavery18.Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War. south had a home field advantage, better generals (west point graduates), had a better reason to fight (if they lost they would lose their slaves)...the northe had the railroads (72% of all railroads were in the south), the telegragh, more troops, manufactured stuff a lot faster than the south (North: # of states-23, pop.-71%, Railroad Mileage-72%, Factories- 85%, Bank Deposits- 81%, Exports- 43%, Iron Production- 96%, Farm Acreage- 65%) (South: # of states- 11, Pop.- 29%, Railroad Mileage- 28%, Factories- 15%, Bank Deposits-19%, Exports- 57%, Iron Produstion- 4%, Farm Acreage-35%)19.Describe what Reconstruction did to the South and the rest of the country. from 1865-1877- the period of time after the Civil War in which the South had to be rebuilt and reorganized and brought back into the Union. President Licoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the south, Johnson was a southern democrate, The republican radical reconstrection- rebuilt south socially, politically, and physically.,Split South into five military district contrilled by US Army, there were 5 places where the army split the south., 13th (abolished slavery), 14th (made blacks citizens) and 15th ( gave the right for black males to vote) amendments passed., Freedmen's Bureau set up to help former slaves., Southern governments taken over by "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags", the northerners were carperbaggers and scalawags were southerners that helped carpetbaggers, south hated both of them., These governments setup schools, raisedtaxes...generaly low taxes, government spends money on railroads, schools being built, and a lot of other things... the worse thing that the carpetbaggers did was took money and kept it for themselves, built railroads, helped ex-slaves, industrialized the South., Governments were accused of widespread corruption by southerners. Share cropping was a step above slavery. The Corrupt Bargain (compromise of 1877) (if you were a democrate you were white and racist) Reconstruction ended in 1877 with th Compromise of 1877, The south and Democrates in general accepted the controversial results of the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes The presidency over samuel tilden., The white racist democrates took over when Hayes won president. Effect of Reconstruction- Positive: Established the Solid South until 1964, Negative: After the North left ,the Redeemers took over Southern governments and established white, racist governments., Set up Jim Crow Laws and Segregation( seperated blacks and whites...ex. seperate water fountians, blacks in the back of the bus and whites in the front of the bus and if there was no seats then the blacks would have to give up their seats for the whites to sit down.
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