continued 8th grade review1.Describe Native American cultures before and after the arrival of the Europeans.( nomadic foolowed animals to hung, they lived of the land. a Green culture. Depended on enviorment didn't waste anything. Hunters and gatheres, fishermen.) They brought desease wanted to conquer the land, we pushed them on to reservations.2.Describe reasons why Europeans started exploring in the late 1400’s. ( Wanted to get to asia trade silk spices etc. Columbus wanted to sail west to see of it was a shorter route to Asia. Land, Money, Power, Riches, They did everything in the land of the lord.3.List the major countries(including main explorers) that explored the New World and where they settled.( England, France, Spain, Portugual, Dutch/ Netherlands.) Spain-central america, and western part of the U.SFrench- Canada and missipit river. English- eastern seaboard of the United States. Dutch- New york. Brazil-portugal. pizzaro,Cortez4.Describe reasons why Europeans came over from Europe and problems they faced.( Religious Freedom, Opurtunity, fur trade or farm. They were in debt or in trouble in Europe. Poor white Europeans. Desaease, lack of food, Native Americans, weather conditions, wild animal attacks.5.Describe the impact the French and Indian War had on the American colonies.( ended in 1763 French and Indains vs British and colonies for land. The British won. The British were taxing the colonies beacause of the war, and because Britain was greatly in debt. Great Britain took over Canada and France was kicked out.6.Describe the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War ( No taxation without representaion. Boston Massacer, Boston tea party colonist dumped millions of dollars worth of tea into the harbor. We got indipendence, Our boundary was now the mississippi river, and people were killed and the British were pushed to Canada)7.Describe the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and what it talked about.( The document were we declared ourself as an independent country. Show the world that we had a reason to go to war.)8.Describe the set up of the Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government.( Was a goverment set up that gave the state goverment most of the power. It was like 13 small countries. The federeal goverment was to weak to get anything done)9.Describe what the US Constitution does(including amendments). ( Protects our rights, Freedom of speech, right to bare arms, freedom of press. 17 amendments. Our goverment, judicial supreme court, legislative congres, executive president of the United States.10.Describe the causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence. ( Texas vs Mexico was inviting people from the u.s they were supossed to follow to rules, no slaves, and have to be catholic. The texans fought of indipendence. They were a indipendent country for a while until they anexed.11.Describe the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War. Causes- Mexico invited americans to texas to help it be settled follow certain rules, they didn't. Mexico tried to stop it, and the americans didn't so we went to war. Mexico lost over half its land to the united staes12.Describe how the US grew as a nation.( defeated great britain, lusiana purchase 1803, spain bout florida 1821, anexed texas 845, 1848 mexican cesion, 1846 made deal with britain, gadson purchase bought from mexico, to make a railroad13.Describe reasons people moved westward in the early parts of our history and the problems they faced.( religious right espeically mormons, gold rush, farming, adventure, escape troubles. Not enough suplies, travel trough mountains and river, wild animals. cold weather, native americans attacks14.Describe some new technologies/inventions that came about in the 1800's that changed the face of the US forever.( Cotton gin, brought more slaves, and did work way much faster, the mini ball. The telegraph, and railroad. interchangeble parts15.Describe how the North and South developed differently. the economy of the south was based on agriculture, and the north was based on indutry.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,( 1820 misouri would be a slave state, and maine would be free basically north free south slave.1850-California free state, fugitibe slave law passe, popular sovereignty idea of letting the state decide wether their free or slave. D.C could have slavery, but slave trade was banned in washington D.C. Dread scott case got rid of popular sovereignty, nd said that slavery was every were nd cuould not be banned. John Brown was hopin the slaves wuld help him in his rebellion, he was a big symbol, Licons election they seceded becuase of lincon's election.17.Describe the North's and South's goals in the Civil War.( North- save they union they did not believe the south had the right to secceed, later their goal was to end slavery. South goal- to keep slavery and to maintian thier way of life.)18.Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War.( south- home field advantage, better genereals stone wall jackson, genereal Lee, better reason to fight.) ( North- railroads, the telegraph lines better communication systems, more troops, manufatured alot faster had way more stuff, all the factories and resources, more food.)19.Describe what Reconstruction did to the South and the rest of the country.(1865-1877) the perid of time after the civil war in which the south had to be rebuilt and reorganized and brought back into the union. Jonson was a democrat, and Lincon was a republican that way licon will get more votes. Republican Radical Reconstruction was passed in the late 1860's. Radical means crazy. Rebuil south socially, politicallly and physically. Split the south in to five military disctrict controlled by the U.S army. 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment passed. 13th abolished slavery, 14th made ex-slaves U.S citizens and gave them equal protection of the laws, 15th gave male black males the right to vote. White Notherners went to the South and took control of the Southgoverment. Scalawags southerners who helpted the carpetbaggers. The south hated these people not only becuase they helped african Americans, but also becuase they steal from the southern tax payers. The reconstruction didn't bring the contry back together it diveded them even more. Democrat white and racist, republican wanted to make change and wanted to help african americans. Republican Rutherford. b Hayes won the election which was a republican, the sout was mad! So they make a deal that the south will acept the new president if the norht stops reconstruction. After that the white racist democrtas took back over the south. Republican ended slavery, democratic wanted slavery. After the norht left the Redemeers took over the souith goverements and established white, racist goverments, Set up Jim crow laws segregation. Established the solid south until 1964. they always voted democrats.Be able to give examples of stories from the video. For example, when asked what problems people faced moving west(#13), mentioning the Donner party would be great!Tags:
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