Monday - Work Day
Tuesday - Work Day
Wednesday - Presentations reviewing US History:
- Traveling west - expansion of America - 1849ish
- Oregon Trail
- Gold Rush
- Narcissa Whitman - first female to make the Oregon trail
- Levi Strauss - jeans
- Mark Twain - author
- Important for the exploration and expansion
- Revolutionary War - war of independence - 1775 - 1783
- War between 13 American colonies vs. GB
- 1/3 supported GB, 1/3 neutral, 1/3 wanted freedom
- Civil War
- Jefferson Davis and Abe Lincoln
- April 12, 1861 - May 9, 1865
- Battle #1 - Fort Sumter
- Emancipation Proclamation - sets goal for freedom of slaves
- Trying to bring the South back together
- Antietam Shaprsburg, Maryland
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- North was more industrialized - more weapons and supplies
- War of 1812 -
- American victory -kinda, just stop fighting
- US vs GB
- June 18, 1812 - February 18, 1815
- DC burned by GB
- GB wanted America back
- Francis Scott Key - Star Spangled Banner
Thursday -
- Civil War
- Started with Ft Sumter
- Grant vs Lee army generals
- Northern victory
- Union - 23, Border - 4, South - 11
- Revolutionary War
- Rebels - 48,000, GB - 22,000
- Boston Tea Party - taxation without representation
- Boston Massacre - sparks revolution
- Declaration of Independence - 4th of July 1776, out of British control
- Paul Revere's Ride - "The British are coming!"
- George Washington - Army Chief
- Ben Franklin - ended war with peace treaty
- Thomas Jefferson - Founding father
- New country to do whatever
- No experienced leaders
- Death and economic hardships
- Louisiana Purchase
- Land deal with France, cheap
- Mississippi river to Rockies
- Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, part of Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Industrial Revolution
- Began in Britain in late 1700s
- Modern inventions
- Factory jobs
- Agricultural to industrial
- Eli Whitney - the cotton gin - 1794
- Elias Howe - Sewing machine - 1846
- James Watt - Steam engine - 1776
- First steamboat - 1787
- First electrical light
- Bigger profits
- More jobs for women
- Bad working conditions
- Polluted air and water
- Employed children for long hours
- Discovering America
- Christopher Columbus - Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria
- 1492 - 4 voyages
- Amerigo Vespucci - proved that it wasn't India
- Named after him
- Exchange of food and crops
- Spread of Religion
- Expansion
- Disease spread
- Era of Exploration - 1460 - 1600
- Exploring Africa, Asia and Americas
- Explore for trades
- Christopher Columbus - 3 ships in 1492, ended up in Bahamas
- San Salvador for Spain
- Jon Cabot - sailed across Atlantic in 1497, east coast of NA
- Claimed land for King Henry VII
- America Vespucci - America and Asia are different continents -1501
- America and Asia named after
- Traveled to the tip of South America
- Positive, no US if no exploration
- Started slave trade
- Led to Colonization
Friday -
- Era of Colonization -
- diverse new world, Spanish, Dutch and English
- First British Colony - Roanoke, Raleigh and then John White - everyone was gone
- Jamestown - first permanent settlement - 1607 - different John White - Powhatan, Pocahontas
- Overcame great odds
- Plymouth - pilgrims and religion, it was a fresh start
- Befriended Squanto, Pawtuxet tribe, first Thanksgiving
- Farming
- Established a diverse America with different people, crops, religions and political ideas
- Many deaths, slaves, disease
- Revolutionary War -
- No taxation without representation
- Leave the British
- Thomas Jefferson was the founding father
- Paul Revere - midnight ride, the British are coming!
- Ben Franklin - Dec of Independence, Treaty of Paris
- George Washington - Army General, soon to be 1st president - Valley Forge
- Articles of Confederation - don't go over well, no president after articles
- Boston Massacre - shots fired
- Boston Tea Party - December 16, 1773
- Bunker Hill - turning point
- Battle of Saratoga
- Crossing the Delaware, Battle of Trenton
- Battle of Yorktown - last battle
- Treaty of Paris - September 3, 1783
- Made us an independent country, have our own government, our own decisions
- Had to start from the ground up - rough years
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