Week of Sept 5th - Sept 9th

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
  • -
  • 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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