Today groups gave presentations.
Columbus discovers america:
- born in Geno, Italy
- began sialing at 10
- recieved royal approval from spain in 1492
- Santa Maria became ship wrecked and destroyed in Cuba
Louisiana Purchase:
- Thomas Jefferson wanted the port of New Orleans
- largest land purchased in history
- Final cost $15 million ($283,000)
War of 1812:
- confirmed once and for all American Independence
- The Impression Issue is were they forced American sailors to work for their ship and their government
Monroe Doctrine:
- created so europeans could'nt expand their colonies into ours
- This ended the trade between the 2
Traul of tears:
- By the 1840s few natives were still living in the southeastern U.S.
- They were all working the cotton fields for white settlers
California Gold Rush:
- John Sutter moves to California and builds Sutter's Fort in 1848
- James Marshall is hired and discovers gold
- Sam Brannan revealed proof of gold near sacramento
- News spread around the country, and the rush accelerated in late 1848
- People traveled over land with wagons through deserts and mountains
- People traveled by sea by boats and steam boats through fierce storms and sickness
- Many sea travelers did'nt know that the gold was 150 miles inland
- Most miners were actually of other trades
- The Gold Rush soon attracted the wrong crowd
- Most miners had troubles affording basic supplies
- Brought people to the west and expanded our nation
- brought back the U.S. currency
Trans continental railroad
- 1st convention for the railroad was held in 1838 by John Plumbre
- In 1862, Congress passed and President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Bill
- Central Pacific Railroad Co. and Union Pacific Railroad Co. were the 2 companies
- Cenral set a record of laying 10 miles of track in one day
Civil War:
- Economic diffrences between the North and South
- Growth of the Abolition Movement
- South Carolina left the Union when Lincoln became president
- Then 6 more left after them (MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, and TN)
- 1st battle of bull run, battle of shiloh, battle of antietam, battle of gettysburg, and surrender at appomattox were the major battles of the war
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