Today we are going to finish these test questions and tomorrow is the test1.Describe Native American cultures before and after the arrival of the Europeans.they crossed the barian straight. spiritual and nomatic and survived completely off the land. wars. hunters. disease was big and so was weapons. we moved them to reservations. They got horses learned fur trade..2.Describe reasons why Europeans started exploring in the late 1400’s.gold, find shorter way to asia,riches, silk, spices, religious reason.3.List the major countries(including main explorers) that explored the New World and where they settled.spain, france, endland, portugal, netherlands.. portugal settled south america, netherlands settled in new york, england settled the 13 colonies eastern coast, spanish settled mexico floride central mexico sw u.s, 4 explorers: columbus- sailed the ocean to the americas. mgellen- first guy to circum navigate the world. cortez- went after the aztec and destroyed them. pizzaro- went after the inca and destroyed them.4.Describe reasons why Europeans came over from Europe and problems they faced.religious freedom, riches-gold, silver, lumber, fur, tobacco, cotton, start a new life, cheap land, reunite families, adventure... disease, native americans, lack of food, weather.5.Describe the impact the French and Indian War had on the American colonies.french and indians againts british the british one and the french got kicked out of canada, britian was in big debt.. britian started to inforce taxes on the colony..6.Describe the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War.no taxation with representation. boston tea party, paul revere's ride- lexigton and concord war after. boston massacare, the newspaper. declaration of independence. we got independence. families torn apart7.Describe the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and what it talked about.to declare independence from great britian officially.. 90% of the document said what king george did to us.8.Describe the set up of the Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government.state government had all the power. federal government had like no power and thats why it kinda failed. it was like 13 different countries.9.Describe what the US Constitution does(including amendments).sets up our government: president, congress, and supreme court. check and balance system..Sets up our government. The different branches set up different parts of our government, such as... the president, congress, courts, etc. Checks and Balance system. We did not want a dictator. We wanted to make it that all three branches were balanced..none more powerful then another. The Constitution also protects our rights10.Describe the causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence.Mexico opened up Texas for citizens to come into. They set up rules. No slaves. Only Catholics. After a while, Texans didn't feel as though they were connected to Mexico. So they fought. They became a independent nation. Then they came back to the U.S. That's how they got the name Lone Star State.11.Describe the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War.dispute where the border was.. mexico lost land we gained big land.12.Describe how the US grew as a nation.purchase the louisiana purchase from france. purchased florida from mexico. annexed texas. mexico seceded and we bought it. Oregan county was purchased with a deal with great britian. the gadsen purchase where a major railroad was going to go(transcontinetal).13.Describe reasons people moved westward in the early parts of our history and the problems they faced.gold, new life, cheap land, silver, farming, andventure, fur trapping. religious freedom.14.Describe some new technologies/inventions that came about in the 1800's that changed the face of the US forever. cotton gin. speed up cotton, negative slaves. steal plow, help til ground. railroad, speed up transportation. telegraph, communication is faster. postal. better more modern weapons and ammunitian used.15.Describe how the North and South developed differently.north-industrial. south-agriculture.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.free vs. slave state. 36 30 lateral line is how they seperated slave and free state. soon a new compromise would have to be drafted. fugitive slave law- south could go in north and take black escaped slaves back. popular sovereignty- let the people of the state decide weather free or slave state. problem was neighbor state people would move in to vote for what they want. dred scott-sued for freedom but they said that black were not u.s. citizen and he cant sue and he is a slave. john browns raid- aboloitionist who took control of armery in south and hoping that surrounding slaves would help them. lincoln and south secession- when lincoln was eleceted the south thought he would abolish slavery and they seceded. he would not allow slavery into new territories.17.Describe the North's and South's goals in the Civil War.north- unify the country. end slavery.South- keep slavery, allow slavery18.Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War.South- home land, better generals, better cause- if they lost they lost slaves....North- more troops, more railroad mileage, telegraph lines, factories and iron production, money,food.19.Describe what Reconstruction did to the South and the rest of the countrybuilding the south back together, the period of time after the civil war in which the south had to be rebuilt and reorganized and brought back into the union. reconstruction was lincolns idea and he was going to be easy forgive and forget but he was shot. then president andrew johnson took over. republicans dominated the north and the democrats dominated the south. Andrew and johnson was impeached bc he was in a head butt with congress. after the 1866 presidential election congress took over the reconstuction. rebuilt south socially, politically and physically.split south into five military distrit controlled by us army. 13, 14, and 15 amendments passed. Freedemn's bureau set up to help former slaves "carmetgbagger" and "scalawags".these governmnets set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, helped ex-slaves, industrialized the south.governmnets were accused of widespread corruption by southernerers. 13-slavery abolished 14-slaves get citizenship rights 15- blacks get to vote. carpetbaggers- are northern government in the south scalawags- southerners who helped carpetbaggers. reconstructions ended in 1877 with the compromise of 1877. the south nd democrats in accepted the controversial results of the 1876 presidential election which gave republican rutherford b. hayes the presidency over samuel tilden. the republican in turn agreed to pull troops out of the south and end reconstruction. no equal protection of laq.. south ended up being a white racist government. the solid south always voted democrat bc they wanted keep their traditions. blacks love republicans. 1964 lydon johnson created the civil rights act.
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