Week of September 5 - 9 - Blogs

Monday - LABOR DAY

Tuesday - NOTES ON PRESENTATIONS

Louisiana Purchase - $15 mil
- April 30, 1803
- Lewis and Clark
- France wanted money to fight Britain
Revolutionary War - 1775 -1783
- America fighting Britain
- 13 States of Murica
- George Washington
French and Indian War - 1754
- Seven Years' War
- France expanded into Ohio, repeated conflict with British
- George Washington attacked first
- French + Indians vs British +Colonists
- Surprise attack!
Steam Engine
- Thomas Newcomen and Thomas Watt
- Powered everything from factories to trains
- Foundation of the Industrial Revolution
Civil War
- Grant and Lincoln vs. Lee and Davis
- Bloody war - families against each other
- 11 states seceded
- Rebuilding the whole country
- Union won - more industrial and had more weapons

ACTUAL 10 EVENTS:
- Native Americans coming and going (forced) - 10,000 years ago
  - Ocean levels dropped
  - Land bridge from Russia
  - Followed food sources
  - From Canada to South America
  - Humans started in Africa
- Columbus and Exploration - 1492-early 1600s
  - Thought it was India
  - Didn't think he discovered anything new
  - Ferdinand Magellan - first person to circumnavigate the globe
  - Amerigo Vespucci - America was named after him
  - Hernand Cortez - defeated the Aztecs
  - Francisco Pizarro - defeated the Incas
  - Henry Cabot - he was English that explored the northeast corner of America
  - Dutch were in New York
  - Spain had biggest empire in America before British took over
  - Line of Demarcation - 1494 - Pope settle argument between Spain and Portugal
  - Sir Francis Drake - long voyage around the coast of the Americas
  - Biggest countries to explore - England, Portugal, France and Spain

Wednesday - NOTES ON PRESENTATIONS

Jamestown and Colonization - early 1600s-1770s
- NA were open to colonists
- Disease, more kept coming, violence
- Moving west
- Spain settled in...
  - Florida
  - Central America
  - Mexico
  - Southwest US
  - South America
  - Caribbean
- Portugal settled in...
  - Eastern South Am
- France settled in...
  - Central US
  - Canada
- England settled in...
  - Eastern coast of US
  - Canada
- Russia settled in...
  - Alaska
- Dutch settled in...
  - New York for a little bit
Revolutionary War - 1775 - 1783
- British started taxation without representation of the colonists in Parliament
- Boston Tea Party - Sons of Liberty
- Boston Massacre - British soldier killed a rioting colonist
- Declaration of Independence - 1776
US Constitution - 1780
- Not first government - the Articles of Confederation, no president, embarrassing - UNunited States, all power to the states, uncooperative
- George president - 1789
- Wanted to give power to the states, not a single ruler
- One of the most important document
- Establishes our government
  - 3 powers, judicial, executive, legislative
  - Legislative
    - Congress, 2 from each state
      - create laws
      - declare war
    - House of Representatives - based on population
  - Executive
    - President
      - pass or veto laws
      - diplomacy
      - make treaties, approved by senate
      - appoint judges, approved by senate
      - working with congress for laws
    - Cabinet
  - Judicial
    - Supreme Court
      - makes sure laws are constitutional
- Protects our rights
- Checks and balances
  - makes sure so branch overpowers
  - President vetos - congress overrides
  - congress makes law - supreme court finds unconstitutional
  - President can make treaties - approved by the senate
- We don't want a king - term limits
- Amendments
  - Bill of Rights
    - Freedom of Speech
    - Right to Peaceably Assemble
    - Right to Religion
    - Right to Bear Arms
    - Right to a Lawyer
    - Right to a Trial
    - Right to Privacy
    - Right to Remain Silent
    - If the power isn't mentioned in the Constitution, then it goes to the state
    - Civil Rights
      - Abolished slavery
      - Minorities of citizens are citizens
    - Women's Suffrage Laws
    - Black Males Voting Rights
    - Prohibition
    - Voting Rights have been extended to
      - Black Males
      - Females - 1920
      - Ages 21-18 - 26th Amendment
      - People in Territories
    - Congressional Pay Raises

Thursday - NOTES ON PRESENTATION

Westward Expansion - 1800s
- Gold and riches
- Settling
- Louisiana Purchase
- Great Plains - the American "Desert"
- Lewis and Clark - Surveyors
- Florida
- Texas War for Independence, Annexed Texas
- Mexican Cession
- Oregon Territory, treaty with Britain - 1846
- Gladsen Purchase for Railroad
Texas War for Ind - 1835 - 36/Mexican American War - 1846-1848
- Texas fought Mexico for Independence
- Battle of the Alamo
  - Destroyed
- United Texans to defeat Mexico
- Lone Star Republic
- Annexed in 1845 by the US
- Mexican American War, 10 years later
- Thought we invaded boarder, misunderstanding
- Imperialism
- We win
- Give Mexico 20 mil and they give us the Mexico Cession

Friday -

Civil War - 1861-1865
- Popular sovereignty
  - let the people of the state decide by voting
- Dred Scott Case - slavery can't be abolished anywhere
- Slavery went from a line, to the popular sovereignty, to completely abolished
- California Gold Rush 1849 - became a state
- Fugitive slave law
- Compromises delayed war
- Lincoln said no slavery in new territories, South thought that the government would target them next - seceded
- Goal of the North - keep the United States United
- Goal of the South - make their own decisions
- Stonewall Jackson - general of the South
- Union won - 23 - 21, railroad mileage, population, factories, bank deposits, exports, iron production, farm land
- South had better generals, more open land, knew their land, hunters and gatherers
Reconstruction - 1865-1877
- Rebuilding America after the Civil War, South was rebuilt and reorganized and brought back into the Union
- Most fighting took place in the South
- Physically rebuilt
- Economically rebuilt - tobacco and cotton production without the help of slaves
- Had to industrialize
- Politically rebuild - new state constitutions, no racism
- Socially - slaves freed, find families, segregation, jobs, sharecropping and tenant farming
- Republican Radical Reconstruction - creates jobs, iron production, wood, brick
  - split the south into 5 different military districts
  - 13th, 14th, 15th amendments
  - Freedmen's Bureau set up to help former slaves with jobs and education
  - Southern governments taken over by 'carpetbaggers' (northerners went south to take over governments) and 'scalawags' (southerners that helped 'carpetbaggers')
  - accused of widespread corruption
  - embezzle money
- Divided the Northern and Southern states
- 1877, northern governments and military left, racist, white men took over
  - created Jim Crow laws - segregation
    - different water fountains, bathrooms, sit at the back of the law
- 1964, blacks get rights

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