Last Friday-
NEW PROJECT
Driving Idea:
What are the main historic events that took place in 7th Grade US History that helped shape the United States up to 1877?
-Research and create a presentation on what you and your group consider to be the five biggest events that shaped our government and nation from Native Americans coming over the land bridge until 1877 with Reconstruction.
-Use Ch. 1-4 of the US History textbook to help
Content-25 points
Delivery-10 points
Visuals-10 points
Sources-5 points
Monday and Tuesday are work days. Think of your own top 5 over the weekend.
1. Revolutionary War
2. Era of Exploration
3. Civil War
4. Colonization/Settlement
5. Louisiana Purchase
Monday-
Worked on our 7th Grade History Project:
Lindsey- Civil War
Katelyn- Era of Exploration
Morgan- Revolutionary War
Andrea- Age of Colonization
All- Louisiana Purchase
Tuesday-
We worked on our 7th Grade History Project
Wednesday-
We started presentations.
Jackson, Aaron, and Wyatt's Presentation:
1. Traveling to the West
- Pioneers travel west of United States to look for resources and to expand to America
- Oregon Trail played a really big role during this time
- Traveled from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon)
- California Gold Rush big role (travel to California looking for gold)
- Narcissa Whitman
- First female to make Oregon Trail on foot and first attempt to travel Oregon trail by wagon
- Levi Strauss
- dry goods wholesaler on San Francisco's Market during California Gold Rush
- Made jeans
- Mark Twain
- Author who wrote popular novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer)
2. Revolutionary War (Morgan has this in our presentation - I will include notes from hers)
3. Civil War (Lindsey has this in our presentation - I will include notes from hers)
4. War of 1812
- Second war of independence
- American Victory
- More like let's stop fighting
- Washington DC was burned by the British
- Great Britain wanted America back
- June 18th, 1812 - February 18th, 1815
- Francis Scott Key wrote National Anthem
Thursday-
Kara, Spencer, Padyn, and Alicia's Presentation:
1. Civil War (Lindsey has this in our presentation - I will include notes from hers)
2. Revolutionary War (Morgan has this in our presentation - I will include notes from hers)
3. Louisiana Purchase (We all did this in our presentation - I will include notes from ours)
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Oklahoma
- Kansas
- Nebraska
- Iowa
- North and South Dakota
- Montana
- Wyoming
- Colorado
- New Mexico
- Arkansas
- Missouri
4. Industrial Revolution
- Began in Britain late 1700s
- modern inventions, jobs, and transportation were created
- population went from agriculture to industrial
- manufacturing goods went from small shops and homes to factories
- Eli Whitney
- 1794 cotton gin
- Elias Howe
- 1846 sewing machine
- James Watt
- 1776 steam engine
- May 1787 - First steamboat invented
- Robert Fulton
- May 1809 - First electrical light was invented
- Positive
- changes in industry increased production of goods
- companies earned bigger profits
- women had more opportunities to work outside
- changed concept of work
- Negative
- work conditions in factories were bad
- air and water was polluted
- environment was damaged
- children were employed
- worked long hours
5. America Is Discovered (I did this in my presentation)
Our Presentation (Lindsey, Andrea, Morgan, and Me):
1. Era of Exploration (Me)
Friday-
2. Age of Colonization (1558-1763)
- Europeans colonized in the Americas
- established their place in "new world"
- multitude of religions and politics (diverse)
- Roanoke (1585-1590)
- Queen Elizabeth I sent Sir Walter Raleigh
- 100 more colonists with John White
- White went back to England
- Came back and no one was there
- Jamestown (1607)
- first permanent settlement
- went to find gold and riches
- King James I sent them out
- Rough times with Natives
- Leader was John Smith
- Pocahontas was never in a relationship with Smith (different John)
- Plymouth (1620)
- King James I sent them out
- Pilgrims - sent out for religious purposes
- Rough years
- Pawtuxet tribe helped them and befriended them (Thanksgiving)
- Expanded into 13 colonies
- Positive
- established America
- Brought variety of crops, religions, political ideas
- Negative
- Many rough years
- Brought slaves
- Death
- Conflicts with Natives
3. Revolutionary War
- Taxes
- Fight against British
- Freedom for the colonies
- Thomas Jefferson
- Declaration of Independence
- Paul Revere
- Lexington and Concord- Midnight Ride
- Ben Franklin
- Drafts of Declaration of Independence
- George Washington
- STB first president of US
- General of Army
- Valley Forge
- Articles of Confederation
- Boston Massacre
- Taxation without Representation
- no representation in Parliment but were still taxed
- Boston Tea Party Dec. 16, 1773
- Dressed as NA as disguises but still got caught
- Bunker Hill
- Drafting and Signing of Declaration of Independence
- The Battle of Saratoga
- Realized that they could actually win
- Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton)
- Battle of Yorktown
- Treaty of Paris - Sept 3rd, 1783
- Impacts
- Positive
- Made us an indepentdent country
- inspired people
- Negative
- Start from ground up
- No one to lean on
- Economic troubles
- Positive
4. Louisiana Purchase
- Positive
- expanded our country
- more opportunities
- transportation options
- Negative
- More territory
- NA land
- More responsibility
- Changed shape of our nation
- doubled in size
- controlled Mississippi
- More Union States - Civil War
5. Civil War (1861-1865)
- Abe Lincoln elected
- Didn't want slavery in new territories
- Southern state secession
- Lead by Jefferson Davis
- Lincoln declared war
- 1,100,000 casualties
- 620,000 deaths
- Fort Sumter - start
- Battle of Gettysburg - bloodiest
- Abraham Lincoln
- won 1860 election - republican
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Won re-election in 1864
- United the nation
- Underground Railroad
- Network of houses
- Slaves traveled North to escape
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Set goal to abolish slavery
- Southern states didn't obey
- Robert E. Lee
- surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant - May 9, 1865
- Positive
- No UNITED States - 2 countries
- Slavery abolished
- Negative
- Deadliest war for our country
- 3.1 mil slaves freed
- Democracy survived
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