Wednesday, September, 7

[4Melissa]

1.Describe Native American cultures before and after the arrival of the Europeans.They got here across the bering land bridge, they were nomadics, travel, spiritual, by nature, didnt waste anything2.Describe reasons why Europeans started exploring in the late 1400’s.Because they wanted a water route to asia, for trading, and riches did it in the name of god,3.List the major countries(including main explorers) that explored the New World and where they settled.Five countries France, Britain, Spain, Portugal, and Netherlands. Netherlands settled in new york area. Poturgese settled in Brazil, English settled on the east coast of the United states, France Canada and along the Mississippi river, Spain settled Florida, Mexico, Central America and west United states. four major explorers, columbus first to find america, magellan first to travel around the world, cortez destroyed the aztecs, pizzaro destroyed Incas in peru.4.Describe reasons why Europeans came over from Europe and problems they faced.religous freedom, better opputunities, riches, fishing, fur trading, farming, logging, whaling, to escape political reasons, shipped over for conviction, adventure. Weather, diseases, native Americans, lack of food and good water, lack of equipment, conflicts with other countries5.Describe the impact the French and Indian War had on the American colonies.ended in 1763, the french and indians against great britain and the colonies. Britain won then they started taxing colonies, started inforcing, no taxation with out representation, no taxes with out some body from the colonies in the parliment,6.Describe the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War.causes: taxes, boston massacre, boston tea party, lexington and concord, paul rivera famous ride, shot heard round the world effects we got independence,7.Describe the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and what it talked about.freedom from Britain, talked about George the third king if Britain and what they didnt like about him8.Describe the set up of the Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government.government before the constitution that didnt work at all, gave more power to states than federal government, didnt work together, taxed for trading between states, struggled as a country under these9.Describe what the US Constitution does(including amendments).protects rights, freedim, speech, voting rights for white rich men, before admendments, extends rights, 27 amendements, establishes the us goverment branches, judical, executive, legislative.10.Describe the causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence.texas letting americans come in then they didnt want them because they didnt want them there anymore and the texans wanted independence form mexico texas in own country for a while became part of us11.Describe the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War.the border between us and mexico over Rio Grande and this other river, they attack us becaus they want the rio grande, we got the mexican section of land in the us,12.Describe how the US grew as a nation.we we bought florida form spain, then the Lousiana purchase Great Plains, texas, mexican section, oregon territory, and a little piece from mexico again Gadson purchase13.Describe reasons people moved westward in the early parts of our history and the problems they faced.gold and better land, riches, better life, religious freedom, oppurtunities, adventure, farming, hunting, mainfest destiny, problems, no riches, diseases, weather, lack of food, transportation lack of it, anomal attacks, 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- cotton production booming, prices down for clothes, steam engine- quick shipping, lower prices, trains- quick tranportaion, telegraph- faster messaging, better weapons, factory production, mass production15.Describe how the North and South developed differently.The south did more farming for shipping and trading, The North more industry better ports, smaller farms16.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 of 1820-upset in power in Congress, maine and missouri asked to be come a state, missouri a slave state, maine free state, every thing below 3630 was slave state, 1850- California free state, popular sovereignty in territories let people of the state vote, fugitive slave law- escaped, free slave could be taken back to south, D.C. could have slavery, Slave trade banned in D.C., Dred Scott- abolitionist, supreme court said, blacks are not U.S. citizens, slavery can not be banned North didnt accept it, John Brown- abolitionist raided armory hoping the slaves would revolt and help him, Lincoln's election- effected our country by the south not liking it and seceded from the union because they thought he was going to ban slavery17.Describe the North's and South's goals in the Civil War.The north wanted to bring back the union together and later goal to end slavery, the south was to keep slavery18.Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War.advantages of north better weapons, more men, food, railroads, states, factories, money, iron productions, farm acerageadvantages of south, knew the land, exports, generals, better reason to fight19.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.