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Week of Sep 5-9

Posted by 1Kara on September 6, 2016 at 1:33pm

Monday: no school

Tuesday: presentations

Fourth Group

  • Louisiana Purchase
    • Signed April 30, 1803
    • Sold for $15 million
    • US bought it from France
    • Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark who explored the land
  • Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
    • War between Britain and 13 colonies
    • On North American land
    • Battle of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775)
    • George Washington- commander of US army
    • 13 states became the United States of America
  • French and Indian War (1754)
    • Between France and Britain
    • aka 7 years war
    • George Washington attacked first on May 28, 1754
    • Killed 10 french men
    • Britain won
    • Britain fell into debt and started taxing which led to Revolutionary War
  • Steam Engine
    • Thomas Newcomen invented 1st true steam engine
    • Powered everything from factories to trains
    • Foundation of Industrial Revolution
  • Civil War
    • Between North and South
    • North
      • Ulysses S. Grant- general
      • Abraham Lincoln- president
      • Had upper hand
    • South
      • Robert E. Lee- general
      • Jefferson Davis- president
      • Great hunters
    • Started at Fort Sumter
    • 11 states seceded
    • Union (North) won
    • America has to rebuild

Top 10 Events That Shaped US History to 1877

  1. Native Americans Coming and Going (Forced) (10,000 years ago)
    1. Ocean levels dropped allowing land bridge
    2. Coming from Asia
    3. Followed food sources 
  2. Columbus and Exploration (1492-early 1600's)
    1. Sailed West to look for India
    2. Ferdinand Magellan
      1. Sailing for Spain
      2. First person to sail around the world
    3. Amerigo Vespucci
      1. America named after him
    4. Francisco Pizarro
      1. Defeated Incas
    5. Henry Cabot
      1. English explorer
      2. Explored Northeast part of US into Canada
    6. Sir Francis Drake
      1. Sailing for England
      2. Went on voyage around coasts of Americas
      3. 1st person to go up west coast of North America
    7. France, Spain, England, Portugal: major countries to explore

Wednesday: continue top 10

  1. Jamestown and Colonization (early 1600's-1770's) 
    1. Colonizations of Americas
      1. Spanish (southwest US, central America, western part of South America)
        1. 1820's: got independence from Spain
      2. Portuguese (present country of Brazil)
      3. French (Central US, Canada)
      4. British (East Coast of US, Canada)
      5. Russian (Alaska)
      6. Dutch (Paramaribo) 
  2. Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
    1. Started enforcing taxes which caused war
    2. No Taxation Without Representation
    3. Boston Tea Party
      1. Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and threw Boston tea into harbor
    4. Boston Massacre (1770)
      1. Colonists rioting
      2. Threw stuff at British guards
      3. British guards fired
    5. Declaration of Independence
  3. US Constitution (1789)
    1. 1st constitution was Articles of Confederation (1783-1789)
      1. No president
      2. Central government- gave power to states
    2. Completely scrapped Articles and drafted US Constitution 
    3. 2 major Constitution does
      1. Protects freedom and rights
      2. Establishes our government
    4. 3 branches of government
      1. Legislative
        1. Congress
          1. Make bills that become laws
          2. Declare war
          3. Emits states
          4. Approves Supreme Court nominations
        2. House of Representatives
        3. Senate (100- 2 from each state)
      2. Executive
        1. Cabinet
        2. President
          1. Can pass or veto laws
          2. Chief law enforcer of country
          3. Diplomacy 
          4. Appoint judges
          5. Can do executive orders (gun control, immigration)
      3. Judicial
        1. Supreme Court
          1. Final say with laws
          2. Make sure laws are constitutional 
      4. Branches check on each other so no one overpowers another
    5. Amendments
      1. First 10- Bill of Rights
      2. Civil War amendments (13, 14, 15)
      3. 4 groups of people voting rights extended to
        1. Black males
        2. Women (19th amendment)
        3. Age 18 can vote
        4. Washington D.C.

Thursday: continue top 10

  1. Westward Expansion (1800's)
    1. People moved west for gold and land
    2. Eastern Boundary- Atlantic Ocean (1783)
    3. Western Boundary- Mississippi River (1783)
    4. Southern Boundary- Gulf of Mexico (1783)
    5. Lewis and Clark were sent to explore Louisiana Territory
    6. Treaty with Great Britain gave us Oregon Territory
  2.  Texas War for Ind. (1835-1836)/ Mexican American War (1846-1848)
    1. Texas War for Independence
      1. Texas was part of Mexico
      2. Opened up immigration for US
      3. No slaves and have to be Roman Catholic: enforced by Mexico to US moving into Texas
      4. Battle of Alamo- Texas won 
      5. Texas annexed by US
    2. Mexican American War
      1. Boundary dispute between US and Mexico
      2. James K. Polk wanted land
      3. Moved troops to border and Mexico thought they were being invaded
      4. War breaks out
      5. American Wins
      6. Paid Mexico $20 million for California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and parts of Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming (Mexican Cession)

Friday: continue top 10

  1. Civil War (1861-1865)
    1. Popular sovereignty
      1. Let people of state decide by voting 
    2. 36/30 line
    3. Gold rush make California a state before all the territories
    4. Compromises delayed inevitable (war)
    5. Abe Lincoln said he was gonna make territories slave free
    6. Made South believe he was gonna come after them next
    7. South seceded from Union
    8. Border states: Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland
      1. Had slaves but still part of Union
    9. North's goal to bring South back
    10. Important people of war
      1. Jefferson Davis
      2. Abraham Lincoln
      3. Ulysses S. Grant
      4. Robert E. Lee
      5. Stonewall Jackson
    11. Union- 23 states
    12. South- 11 states
    13. Why North won
      1. North had more states, population, railroad mileage, factories, bank deposits, iron production, and farm acreage
      2. South had more exports
      3. South had better generals which is why North struggled at first
  2. Reconstruction (1865-1877)
    1. Rebuilding of America after the Civil War
      1. South had to be rebuilt and organized and brought back into Union
        1. Physically rebuilt
        2. Economically rebuilt
        3. Industrialization
        4. Politically
        5. Socially (slaves being free)
    2. Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on South
    3. Lincoln was republican and Johnson was a democrat
    4. Republican Radical Reconstruction
      1. Created lots of jobs
      2. Split South into 5 military districts controlled by US Army 
        1. Military enforced things
      3. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passed
      4. Freedman's Bureau set up to help former slaves
      5. Southern governments taken over by "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" (Northerners)
      6. These governments set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, helped ex-slaves, industrialized the South
      7. Governments were accused of widespread corruption by southerners
    5. Reconstruction left divisions between North and South
    6. When northerners left south, traditional rich, white racist males took back over
      1. Segregation laws
    7. Took 99 years for African-Americans to see the rights they should have had in 1865
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