Wednesday September 7

[8Brittany]

The test is tomorrow and there are 4 in a group.1.Describe Native American cultures before and after the arrival of the Europeans.Europeans forced the Native Americans off their land and brought over diseases that kill them. Native Americans lived off the land and the came over on the land bridge.2.Describe reasons why Europeans started exploring in the late 1400’s.They wanted to get to Asia by faster trade routes, for the better of there own country more riches. In the name of God (Jesus) used it as justicifation for killing people.3.List the major countries(including main explorers) that explored the New World and where they settled.5 counties the big 3 were England, France, Spain. The Netherlands and Portugal were pretty big. The Netherlands settled in New York, Portugal settled in Brazil, Englished settled on the east coast, French settled on Canada and by the Mississippi and in New Orleans. Spain settled in Florida, Mexico, Texas, Central America, and Western United States, South America outside Brazil. Christopher Columbus- discovered America, Cortez- destroyed the Aztecs in Mexico, Magelen-first person to travel around the world(his crew) , Pizzrao-destroyed the Incas4.Describe reasons why Europeans came over from Europe and problems they faced.Religous freedom, Better life- richers, opportunities, farming, fur trade, fishing, whaling, to escape the government in Europe, Georgia a place for convicts, adventure, weather, diseases(small pox) Native Americans, lack of food, lack of equipment. Conflicts with other countries.5.Describe the impact the French and Indian War had on the American colonies.Ended in 1763,war between French and Indians against Great Britian, colonists and Britian won, After they won Britian taxed the colonist and enforce the taxes. No taxation without representation means you can't tax us if we don't have a person in the parliment to represent the colonist.6.Describe the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War.Causes- taxes, Boston Masacre, Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord started the war, where Paul Rivier and the shot heared around the world, We won and gained independence.7.Describe the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and what it talked about.Freedom from Britain, so the world knows why we wanted our independence.8.Describe the set up of the Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government.the first U.S. government, it gave too much power to the state government instead of the federal government, it was like 13 little countries, it failed because every state was out to benifit themselves.9.Describe what the US Constitution does(including amendments).The admendments protects our rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, voting rights, if you get arrested or accused of a crime you have a right to a fast and speedy trial with a jury. People in D.C couldn't vote until 1961. There are 27 admendments and the fist ten were the Bill of Rights, it establishes the US government it sets up the 3 branches and gives them their powers, Legislation, Juditicial and Executive.10.Describe the causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence.Texas was apart of Mexico and they wanted freedom, at first Mexico let them in if the became catholic and get rid of slaves. Texas won and became their own country and then the joined the U.S.11.Describe the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War.Took place in the 1840's over a border dispute, we say it was the Rio Grande and they said it was the Neuces River. The president sent troops to the Rio Grande and Mexico thought they were being invaded so they attacked the US troops and we thought we had been attacked. We wanted land from Mexico12.Describe how the US grew as a nation.After the Revolutionary War we had all the land up to the Mississippi River and then we got the Louisiana Perchase from France, bought Florida, won Texas, a deal for Washington and then bought land from Mexico.13.Describe reasons people moved westward in the early parts of our history and the problems they faced.Better land and gold, silver, better life, religious freedom, adventure, farming, hunting, manifest destiny-countries believe that god wanted us to go from the Atlantic to the Paciffic Coast. Problems not finding any gold or silver, diseases, lack of food, lack of transportation, wild animal attacks, and native americans.14.Describe some new technologies/inventions that came about in the 1800's that changed the face of the US forever.Cotton gin-it made the south want more slaves and it made it easier to produce more cotton and brought prices down. Steam engine- able to travel up and down the river more quickly and brought prices down, trains-transported people and goods, the telegraph- transported information from weeks to minutes. Weapons, factories- interchangable parts, machines for mass production brought down prices.15.Describe how the North and South developed differently.North- did their own work and the south used slaves. Saw more industry in the North than in the South better ports and harbors. North more industrious and the South more agrictural.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 secessionMissouri compromise(Compromise of 1820)- up to 1820 congress was about equal with north and south. Maine asked to become a state and so did Missouri. Missouri became a slave state and Maine a free state and any new state coming in above the 36.30 line were free everything south was a slave state. Compromise of 1850-California came in as a free state. Popular sovereignty in territories means in the future territories the people would vote for slaves or to be free. Fugitive slave Law- if your an escape slave or a free black you could be taken back to the south. Washington D.C. could have slavery, slave trade banned in D.C.The nickname for Kansas was bleeding Kansas during the popular sovereignty. 1857 Dred Scott Case- said the slavery can't be banned anywhere and that blacks could not become citizens. John Brown's Raid- broke into an armory in the south, and he hoped the slaves would join him and fight but they didn't and he got cought and trailed. Lincoln's election- the south didn't like it so they seceded from the union, because they thought he was going to end slavery.17.Describe the North's and South's goals in the Civil War.North's goal at the beginning at the war was to united the Union. Later on the goal to end slavery. South's goals to keep slavery/ perserve their way of life.18.Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War.South- fought on their land, more exports, better generals, Stone Wall Jackson and Robert E Lee and had a better reason to fight.North- had more people, Lincoln, had more trains, more factories-to make more stuff, more money, more iron and more farm land.19.Describe what Reconstruction did to the South and the rest of the country.Reconstruction-1865-1877- the period of time after the Civil War in which the South had to be rebuilt and reorganized and brought back into the Union.President's Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the South.That changed in the 1866 Congressional election.Lincoln was republican and Johnson was demorcatic.Republican Radical Reconstruction- rebuilt the South socially, politically and physically. Socially they brought families together. Spilt the south into 5 military district controlled by the US Army.13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passed. 13th ended slavery, 14th gave them US citizenship and rights under the law and 15th gave african american males the right to vote. Freedmen's Bureau set up to help former slaves, many became tenant farmers. Southern governments taken over by "carpetbaggers" (northerners) and "scalawags"(southerners that help northerners). These governments set up schools, raised taxes, bulit railroads, helped ex-slaves, industrialized the South. Governments were accused of widespread corruption by southerners. "The Corrupt Bargain"- reconstrucion ended in 1877 with the Compromise of 1877. The South and Democrats in general 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 Reconstrucion. Effects of Reconstrucion- 1. established the "Solid South"-were all democrats until 1964, 2. After the North left, the "Redeemers" took over Southern governments and established white, racist governments, 3. Set up Jim Crow laws and segregation.