Today is a EARLY OUT!!!! YAY!!!!
Group 2 from yesterday:
war of 1812: Monroe doctrine, created so Europeans wouldn't expand their colony into ours.
trail of tears 1830's: Georgia Tennessee alabama north carolina flordia, difficult and deadly journey.
California Gold rush: john sutter moved to california and built sutters fort in 1848, james marshall is hired and eventually discovers gold, sam brannan revealed proof of gold near Sacramento, news spread across the country, and the rush accelerated in late 1848. getting to california; land: really hard, many were unprepared and died, advantage more room for supplies. Sea: around sa and cape horn took 5-7 months, fierce storms, lots of sickness. panama via steamboat: much quicker, very expensive, lots of sickness. Many didnt know gold was 150 inland. life as a miner: most miners were actually of other trades, lived in wooden houses or canvas tents, cooked over open campfires-poor health, formed friendships and communities-many had trouble affording basic supplies. the gold rush soon attracted the wrong crowd. the gold rush is what brought people to the west and expanded our nation from coast to coast. all the gold from the gold rush helped the us with currency.
Transcontinental Railroad:
1838 planning by john plumbe, final decision in 1862
laying the track: central pacific railroad co. started on west coast. brought together by theodore judah in April of 1861 groundbreaking took place in Sacramento on January 8, 1863. Union pacific railroad co. fouded in chicago on September 2, 1862. ground breaking on December 2, 1863. made communication and trade a lot easier, made us 1 country
Civil war and reconstruction: i have information on this from my groups presentation. First Battle at Bull run, battle of Shiloh, battle of Antietam, battle of Gettysburg, surrender at Appomattox, presidential reconstuction, radical reconstruction, reconstruction comes to an end. class is over now
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