Monday: No school
Tuesday: Presentations
Fourth Group:
French and Indian War
(Seven Years War)
Started in 1754- France expanded into Ohio
French vs British
Bruns' Top ten events
Native Americans Coming and Going (10,000 years ago)
Columbus and Exploration (1492 - early 1600's)
Ferdinand Medellin - first person to sail around the world
Amerigo Vespucci- named after him
Hernan Coretes- led expedition that led to Aztec downfall
French, Spain, England, and Portugal were the biggest countries that explored.
Jamestown and Colonization (1600's - 1770's)
Colonists overpowered Native Americans because of disease, better technology, and amount of people
Spain settled in the SW United States, Central America, and most of South America
French settled in the Central United States and Canada
Great Britain settled in the Eastern Seaboard, Central America, etc.
Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783)
US Constitutions (1789)
Not the first government
Articles of Confederation wanted to give power to the states
"Un-United States of America" - were not on their own, taxed each other
U.S Constitution replaced it
James Madison was father of constitution
Protects rights
Established our government
Legislative Branch (congress and representatives) (2 senates) They make laws, declare war, approves members of courts
Executive Branch- (president) Executive orders
Judicial Branch- (supreme court) interprets meaning of laws, etc.
First Ten Amendments
4 groups of people and voting rights (black males, women, 21 to 18 yr old, had to be in a state (D.C.))
Westward Expansion (1800's)
Looking for gold and land
Northern boundary (Canada) Southern boundary (Florida)
Louisiana Purchase
Texas War for Ind. (1835 - 36)/ Mexican- American War (1846-1848)
Opened up immigration
Mexico was independent
Anti Roman Catholic
Texas won and became independent
America won
Gave us California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, some of New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado
Civil War (1861 - 1865)
Reconstruction (1865 - 1877)
Wednesday: filled out Jamestown & Colonization to U.S. Constitutions
Thursday: filled out Westward Expansion to Texas War for Indians/ Mexican American-War
Friday: Civil War to
1820 Missouri compromise
split country north and south
Scott case California became a state due to gold rush fugitive slave law, compromises didn't solve issue
1861-1865
Lincoln cause south to leave
why did the north win
more states
population
railroads
bank deposits
iron production
reconstruction
1865-1877
building america right after the civil war
cant allow people to stay in power
social, political, economical, physical
provide lots of jobs
split south into 5 military reconstruction
freedmens bureau- helped lsvaes get job training and education
carpet bagger - northerners that went to south and took over government -scalawags southern that supported carpetbaggers
(easy for them to make money)
left deep division between south and north
1877- northerners got tired of being in south
democrats to over government
segregation laws
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