Monday - No school
Tuesday - NOTES ON PRESENTATION
- Louisiana Purchase
- About 4 cents an acre
- America originally said no until offered more money
- French and Indian War
- 1754
- AKA Seven Years War
- France expanded into Ohio - British land
- 10 French were killed in the first battle - surprise attack
- French fought with the Indians - British fought again them, still the colonist
- Steam Engine
- Thomas Newcomer created the first
- Foundation of Industrial Revolution
- Powered factories and trains etc.
- Civil War
- North had upper hand
- South was more self reliant
- North was more industrial
- South knew the land well
- Brothers would fight each other
- 11 States seceded
- Native Americans Coming and Going (Forced)
- 10,000-50,000 years ago
- Native Americans came over the land bridge
- Following foodstuffs
- Supposedly came over from Africa
- Trail of Tears
- Destroyed Native's way of life
- Columbus and Exploration
- 1492 - early 1600s
- Columbus didn't know he found a new continent
- Ferdinand Magellan - first person to sail all around the world
- Amerigo Vespucci - America was named after him
- Hernandez Cortez - Conquered the Aztec
- Ferdinand Pizarro - defeated the Incas
- Henry Cabot - English Explorer - Canada/Northeast America
- Spain had biggest empire
- Line of Demarcation - 1494
- Sir Francis Drake - Went on Extremely long voyage, around the tip of South America, to the west coast of America - basically the coast of the Americas
- France, Spain, England, Portugal big countries that explored
Wednesday - NOTES ON PRESENTATIONS
- Jamestown and Colonization
- Early 1600s - 1770s
- Overpowered Native Americans with better technology, disease, and sheer numbers
- After 1890, Native Americans basically surrendered to colonists
- Spain settled Florida, Southwest America, Central America and West South America
- Portugal settled Brazil
- French settled Central United States and a good chunk of Canada - much bought from Americans from Louisiana Purchase
- British settled East coast of United States, and much of Canada
- Russia settled Alaska
- Dutch settled New York for a little while
- Not easy to settle in New World
- After French and Indian War, Britain started enforcing tax
- Revolutionary War
- 1775 - 1783
- Biggest cause was taxation without representation
- Declaration of Independence July 4th, 1776
- Colonists learned warfare from Native Americans
- US Constitution
- 1789
- Articles of Confederation were the first government of United States
- George Washington became president in 1789
- Articles of Confederation gave all power to the states - Un-united States of America: The states were all separate with different currency
- One of greatest document in History
- James Madison was the father of US Constitution
- Constitution
- Protects freedoms and rights
- Establishes our government - separates the government into three branches - evens out the power
- Branches - Check and balances so no overpowering
- Legislative - Congress(House and Senate) - Makes Laws/Bills - Declare War - Approve all people in Congress
- Executive - President - Pass or Veto laws - Sign treaties - Diplomacy
- Judicial - Supreme Court - Final saw with laws
- If president veto a law but congress has 2/3 vote, law still passes - supreme court still decides whether law is unconstitutional
- Amendments
- Freedom of speech, religion, press and to assemble peacefully
- Right to bear arms
- Quartering soldiers
- Right to trial quickly
- No cruel and unusual punishment
- If a power isn't specified, the state government has power
- Abolish slavery
- Minorities can become citizens
- Civil Rights
- Blacks to Vote
- Income tax
- Woman's Suffrage Laws
- Terms for Legislative and Executive Branches
- 2-Term Presidential Limit
- Voting age 18
Thursday - NOTE ON PRESENTATION
- Westward Expansion
- 1800s
- Gold - farming - adventure
- Florida - 1819
- Louisiana Purchase - 1803 - Surveyors called it the Great American Desert
- Lewis and Clark - Journey to Pacific Ocean
- Texas Annexation - 1845
- South Western America (California, Nevada, Arizona, 1/2 of New Mexico and Colorado) - 1848
- Oregon Territory (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, parts of Montana and Wyoming) - 1846
- Alaska - 1867
- Hawaii - 1898
- Texas War for Ind. / Mexican-American War
- 1835 - 1836 / 1846 - 1848
- People in Texas had slaves and hated Roman-Catholic
- Mexicans won Alamo - united Texas to win
- Lone-Star republic for about ten year - annexed by america in 1845
- Mexico thought Nueces River was Border
- America thought Rio Grande was Border
- America wanted land
- War could have been prevented
Friday - NOTES ON PRESENTATION
- Civil War
- 1861-1865
- California and Oregon were Union States
- Missouri Compromise of 1820 - Drew line where slave were in the south and free in the north
- 1850 - Popular sovereignty - Let the people of the state decide whether they want slavery by voting
- The Reg Scott case basically said that slavery was allowed everywhere
- California was added as a state because of the gold rush
- South seceded because they thought Lincoln would abolish slavery in the south after he banned slavery in the west
- North wanted to unite the states, not end slavery
- Emancipation Proclamation 1883
- Jefferson Davis - President of the Confederate
- Stonewall Jackson - General of the south
- Union had
- More states
- More population
- More railroads
- More Factories
- More money
- More Iron Production
- More Farmland
- South had
- More exports
- Better generals
- More knowledge of the land
- More knowledge with weapons
- Reconstruction
- 1865-1877
- The period of time after the Civil War, in which the South had to be rebuilt and reorganized and brought back into the Union
- Physically - lot of construction had to be done
- Economically - slaves were gone, had to industrialize
- Politically - Had to change their government
- Socially - Slaves were now free and people had to find their family after the war
- Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the South
- Lincoln had a Democratic VP to gain the southern democratic vote
- Republican Radical Reconstruction
- Rebuilt south economically, socially, politically, and physically
- Benefited other companies because things were being built
- Military Reconstruction - Assigned zones for different generals
- South was split into five different military districts controlled by the army
- 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed
- 13 abolished slavery
- 14 declared blacks citizens
- 15 gave black men the right to vote
- Freedmen's Bureau set up to help former slaves get jobs and get back into the real world
- Southern governments taken over by "carpetbaggers"and "scalawags"
- Carpetbaggers were northerners that went south to take over the southern government
- Scalawags were southerner that help carpetbaggers
- They set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, helped ex-slaves, industrialized the South
- Government was accused of corruption by southerners
- Reconstruction left deep divisions between the northern states and southern states
- Once northerners left the south, rich, white racist males took over the governments
- Set up segregation laws (Jim Crow Laws) starting in 1877
- African Americans would not see the rights they should have had in 1865 until 1964
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