Monday -
Big Historical Events: 1. Native Americans Coming and Going(10,000 yrs ago), 2. Exploration(1492-1600's), 3. Colonization/ Settlement(1600's-1770's), 4. Revolutionary War(1775-1783), 5. U.S Constitution/ Bill of Rights(1789), 6. Westward Expansion(1800's) Slavery, 7. Texas war for Ind.(1835-36), 8. Civil War(1861-1865), Re-building(1865-1877)
Trail of Tears - Native Americans were forced from the East to the Indian Territory
-(First Bullet Answer): Disease, Wars, Lies, Buffalo Killings
Explorers: Christopher Columbus - founded the new-world, came on voyages, 1992 sailed the ocean blue,
Medallion - crew was first to go around the world
Cortez - destroyed Aztecs, after gold
Sirfrancis Drake - 2cd person to go around the world
Coronado - explored Midwest
Tuesday -
2 Major Countries - Portugal, Spain
Major areas that Spain settled - Texas, California, South America, Florida
Major areas the French settled -Canada, Central United States, Great Lake States
Major ares England settled - Canada, Eastern United States
13 Colonies - Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire
Causes of the Revolutionary War - French and Indian War - fought the French and Indians. British won. , Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, Intolerable Acts, Proclamation of 1763, The Townshend Acts, The first Congregational Congress
"Don't Tread On Me" flag is called the Galveston flag, Rattle snake became a symbol of the colonies
Declaration of Independence - to declare independence from Great Britain. Giving the rights to rise up from King George lll. Explains how Great Britain is being terrible to us, explains the horrible things that King George lll did to us, then says we declare independence
Articles of Confederation - 1781-1788, The Un-United States of America
Constitutional Convention - supposed to change the articles
U.S Constitution? - document that sets up our government . Came about because of the failure of our articles; to be stronger.
Separation of Powers? - Establishes rules and separates powers of the government ; judicial, executive, legislative
Checks and Balances? - Balance of power so that no branch overrides another
Father of the Constitution? James Madison
two houses of Congress - House of representatives, senate
There are 100 Senators in the U.S. 2 per state.
435 people in the House of Represatives. Population
6 year terms for the senate and you have to be 30 years old
Wednesday -
2 year terms for the house of representatives and you have to be 25 years old
Congress can make laws and declare war
December 8 1941 was the last time the U.S declared war- Pearl Harbor
You must be 35 years old to be president
Franklin Roosevelt served the longest time - 12 years
The longest mound of time a president can serve is 10 years
In order to be in the US Supreme Court ... be a US citizen
President appoints justices of the Supreme Court to get their job
Powers of the US supreme Court - Suggests laws
Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court - John Roberts
The Constitution protects rights, sets up our government, and protects peoples rights
Jury Trial - To have time to talk about the action. To have more people to conceal the decision
West in US History(1790)- Appalachian mountains then it kept expanding
People moved west for gold, religion, farming, military reasons, silver mining, animals
Manifest Destiny - right to expand westward
Name five states that came out of the Louisiana Purchase - Louisiana, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, South Dakota
Thursday -
Describe one of the territory's that were bought
Texas War for Independence : colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the Mexican government
Stephen F. Austin
Sam Houston
Issue with Roman Catholicism
Mexican- American War
Causes - Bad blood between Texas and Mexico (Land)
President Polk sent troops to the border. Mexico thinks we have invaded so they attack. U.S wins.
Main causes of the Civil War:
1. Sectionalism - North and south
2. Slavery
3. States Rights
4. Tariffs
5. Election of 1860 & Secession - secession is leaving, several states secede and war breaks out
Every time a new state wanted to come in, it was a problem
Missouri wanted to come in as a slave state. The north was concerned. They broke Maine off Massachusetts and drew the Missouri compromise line. North free. South slaves.
Dread Scott- African American given freedom. U.S Supreme Court said that blacks were not citizens. Said that government could not abolish slavery. Suddenly, slavery could be open anywhere
The confederate states considered themselves as their own country
The south is doing better than the north at first
The north won the Civil War, though, because they had more resources (Population, Railroads, Factories)
Friday -
Reconstruction - rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Republican Radical Reconstruction- Rebuilt south economically, socially, politically and physically
- Split the south into five military districts
- 13, 14, 15 amendments passed (slavery now unconstitutional, can't take rights away, allowed all men to vote no matter color)
1920 - when women got the right to vote
Freedmen Bureau - Provided food, clothing, education, and job training to freed slaves
Carpetbaggers - Northern, white republicans who moved south after the war. Many became rich businessmen or won political office
Scalawags - Southern, white republicans Southerners believed these people were betraying the South
These governments set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, helped ex-slaves, industrialized the South
Governments were accused of widespread corruption by southerners
African-Americans would not see the rights they should have had in 1865 until 1964
Election of 1876 -Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel J. Tilden
Tilden won the popular vote but Hayes won the election
Hayes removed federal troops from the south ending Reconstruction
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