EXPlORERS
This European Explorer was the first to claim Islands in the Caribbean for Spain in 1492
Christopher Columbus
This Country ruled the American Colonies and put heavy taxes on them so the colonist complained and said "taxation with no representation"
England/Great Britain
under King George the 3rd
In the beginning stages of the development of human society, what is the term used to describe how those early people got their food?
Hunter-gatherer.
What is the term for when people breaking away from a country, to make 2 different countries?
secede
Why did the United States enter WWII?
Japan launched a surprise air attack in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
This Spanish explored the southern United States especially discovering the Mississippi River.
De Soto
The King consider the 13 Colonies rebellious and sent troops to stop the rebellion. Tensions turn into the war known as the American Revolution. When did it start and when did it end?
It began in 1775 in Lexington and Concord Massachusetts
England surrender at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781
The war ended with a peace treaty in 1783.
One of the results of early world exploration in the 15th century was the process by which plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas have been introduced from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas and vice versa. Example: Italy had never seen a tomato until Columbus brought some back from the New World. What term is used for this bring back and forth of ideas and items?
The Columbian Exchange
(notice the root word in Columbian is Columbus)
Disagreements developed between the South and North. The South wanted to break away from the North and Call their country the Confederate States of America so they could keep their way of life. The President of the this new Country was Jefferson Davis.
Who said "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand" and what did he mean by this?
Abraham Lincoln
He meant that the United States would have to choose between slavery and freedom and stop compromising. He made this statement during a campaign speech in 1858 when he was running for Senate against Stephen Douglas.
After the Civil Way, the United States began to grow. what is the term that is used to describe goods that are made by a machine?
How did the US deliver those good all over the US?
Manufacturing
Transcontinental railroad
Who was the French explorer that began exploring North America in 1603 and mapped the Atlantic coast and the Great Lakes.
Samuel de Champlain
The Declaration of Independence was a letter sent to the king of England with a list of complaints against the King and his government they failed to address.
It declared it's formal break away and that it would become its own country. When and where did this take place this Declaration take place?
July 4, 1776
in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Once the United States became a country in 1783, it wanted to explore and own the land to the west. What was the idea called that the United States should expand the country westward from the East Coast to the West Coast?
Manifest Destiny
Name the President that believed or did the following:
Believed in States Rights, slavery, and manifest destiny, and became the First and only President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
The United States still had deep divisions between the majority white people and blacks and other sub cultures in that lived here.
In the United States, the South had rules or laws restricting where black people could live, go to school and what kind of jobs they could have. This is called discrimination. Black people could not vote.
Martin King Jr
Civil Rights Movement
This Spanish explorer lived in Mexico in 1540.
He led a major Spanish expedition up Mexico’s western coast and into the region that is now the southwestern United States. He did not find the gold cities however he discover the Grand Canyon and other major physical landmarks of the region, and clashed violently with local Indians.
Francisco Vazquez Coronado
The 13 American Colonies formed a government that included every colony having official representatives that would vote on policies and laws.
They met in a central location; Philadelphia, PA.
What was this group of representatives known as?
The Continental Congress
As settlers moved and settled into California, gold nuggets were discovered in the Sacramento Valley at a place called Sutter's Mill.
What year did this take place?
early 1848 but the gold rush began in 1849
(that is why the football team in San Francisco is called the 49ers)
Which President
Grew up poor, was self-educated and became a lawyer. He became a politician and served a term in the Illinois state legislature. He went to Washington DC in 1847 serving a single term in Congress
Believed in preserving the Union, Economic opportunity (people should be free to move, have opportunity to be able to become what they wanted, and enjoy of the fruits of their labor).
Opponent of states’ rights. Committed himself politically to the extinction of slavery.
Believed in the importance of the Survival of Constitutional Democracy:
What years was he president?
Abraham Lincoln 16th president
1861 - 1865
The United States was a democracy that gave citizens the right to vote and elect government leaders and allowed people to own their own houses and businesses and choose the kind of work they wanted to do.
The Soviet Union had a communist form of government where the government owns and operates all the business and puts people in jobs. They provided places to live.
Each country tried to influence other countries to become like them.
These two ideas are at war with each other. Name the term for that War?
The Cold War
Put these explores in a timeline of their New World discoveries
Coronado Champlain Columbus De Soto
1 Columbus 2 De Soto 3 Coronado 4 Champlain
When and where was the last battle fought and won for the War for Independence?
The Battle of Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781,
Southern States passed Jim Crow Laws. What is it, and did those laws do?
Laws that kept African Americans and white people separate.
This is called segregation.
Lincoln lived to see the Southern General Lee surrender helping to bring the Civil war to a close.
He was assassinated 5 days latter.
What was the name of the plan that Lincoln proposed to help the South rebuild after the Civil War?
Also list some parts/ideas of this plan
Plan called Reconstruction:
Rebuild cities that were destroyed
Free every Slave and provide land to the Slaves from the large plantations.
Give every black man 40 acres of land and a mule plus farming tools.
The Civil Rights Movement impacted more than race. What else did the Civil Rights Movement lead to?
Equal rights for mown.
Congress got rid of quotas (the certain number of immigrants from a country)