1.Describe Native American cultures before and after the arrival of the Europeans.2.Describe reasons why Europeans started exploring in the late 1400’s.3.List the major countries(including main explorers) that explored the New World and where they settled. Spain Britian France Portugule and netherlands.4.Describe reasons why Europeans came over from Europe and problems they faced. Religious freedom, better life, riches, fur trade, opertunities, Prblems they had chicken poxs dieases lack of supplies5.Describe the impact the French and Indian War had on the American colonies. 1763 war started. Britian started enforcing taxes. no taxation with out representation.6.Describe the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War. Causes: taxes, shooting in the streets Boston tea party. Effects: we got independence7.Describe the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and what it talked about. Independece from great britian.8.Describe the set up of the Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government. it failed miserably no government9.Describe what the US Constitution does(including amendments). The ammendment protects our rights people the couldnt vote blacks, womens, poor whites, people in washington dc. keeps your rights10.Describe the causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence.11.Describe the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War. took off in 1840's12.Describe how the US grew as a nation. we wanted land13.Describe reasons people moved westward in the early parts of our history and the problems they faced.Better land and gold and silver.Better life. Religious freedom. Farming. Problems: dieases bad weather not finding gold or silver.14.Describe some new technologies/inventions that came about in the 1800's that changed the face of the US forever. cotton gin, Steam engines, trains, Teleograph, mores code, better weapons.15.Describe how the North and South developed differently. South dependended on tobacco and cotton. The north grew more food crops.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. Congress we equal, Californa free state, popular sovereignty, DC could have slavery. Slave trade banned dc.17.Describe the North's and South's goals in the Civil War. North goal to get the south back in the union and to end slavery. South goal to keepmslavery.18.Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War. North had more weapons and people had more railroads and more states had more food. south fought on own land more exports, better generals,better reason to fight.19.Describe what Reconstruction did to the South and the rest of the country. After the cival war were the south rebuilt the union. Rebuilt south socially, politically and physically.13th, 14th and 15th amendment passed. Gave african americans voting rights.
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