I have to redue because my blog didn't post...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.4.Describe reasons why Europeans came over from Europe and problems they faced.5.Describe the impact the French and Indian War had on the American colonies.-Anything in 1763. The French and the Indians against Great Britian and the Colonists. The colonists and the British won the war. No taxation without representation. The colonists shouldn't be taxed without being represented in the British Parliament.6.Describe the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War.-Causes.... taxes. Boston Tea Party. Boston Masequer. Lexington and Concord.Effects... we got independence. Great Britian was forced to Canada.7.Describe the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and what it talked about.-Our freedom.8.Describe the set up of the Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government.-It was Americas first U.S. government. There was no president at the time. There was the 13 colonies.9.Describe what the US Constitution does(including amendments).10.Describe the causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence.11.Describe the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War.12.Describe how the US grew as a nation.13.Describe reasons people moved westward in the early parts of our history and the problems they faced.14.Describe some new technologies/inventions that came about in the 1800's that changed the face of the US forever.15.Describe how the North and South developed differently.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 secession17.Describe the North's and South's goals in the Civil War.18.Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War.19.Describe what Reconstruction did to the South and the rest of the country.-Republican Radical Recontruction. Rebuilt south socially, politically and physically.-Split South into five military ditrict controlled by US Army-13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passed-Freedmen's Bureau set up to help former slaves-Southern governments taken over by "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"-These governments set up schools, raised taxes, and built railroads, helped ex-slaves, industrialized the South.-Governments were accused of widespread corruption by southerners-Ended in 1877 with the compromise of 1877
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