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
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- America won
- Gave us California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, some of New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado
- Civil War (1861 - 1865)
- Succeeded when Lincoln said he was abolishing slavery
- Southern states- Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, etc
- Northern States- Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc
- Bordering States- Missouri, Virginia, Kentucky
- Goal was to bring the south back
- Jefferson Davis - President of the south
- Stonewall Jackson- General of south
- The North won because they had more states, more railroads, more money, more weapons
- South were more familiar with weapons, knew their land, had better generals
- Reconstruction (1865 - 1877)
- Time after Civil War when South had to be rebuilt and organized and brought back to Union
- Had to be rebuilt politically
- Rebuilt socially
- Made more jobs
- Split south into 5 different districts controlled by US army (enforcing rules)
- 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment were passed
- Freedman's Bureau set up to help former slaves
- Southern governments taken over by "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"
- Those governments set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, etc
- Governments were accused of widespread corruption by southerners
- All of the reconstruction divided the states
- Once the governments and military left, the south racist males took over
- Jim Crow laws and segregation were established
- African-Americans didnt get rights till 1964
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
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