1585, first settlers, after 3 years came back from London with supplies - disappeared,no trace, no clue
Longest rivers
Missouri, Missisipi, Rio Grande, Yukon, Arkansas, Colorado
Wilderness road, Daniel Boone
1775, explorer D. Boone found the way foe the settlers to the west through the Appalachians
the Virginia Company
commissioned by King James I - it had the power to appoint a Council of leaders in the colony, a Governor, other officials
Indians are moved from their lands - forced migration
Northwest ordinance - the land of the indians will stay theirs, > Indian Removal act, > Trail of tears, Cherokee tribe
[country] helped americans during the war of independence
France, by the proxy of B. Franklin, the American ambassador in Paris at the time, 1778 French King signed an alliance with Americans
"No taxation without representation"
colonists to the Crown, no seats in parliament - no taxes
The Bill of rights
first 10 amendments in the constitution, human rights
First fire shots of the American REvolution
1775, Lexington village, eight people dead, sb fired the first shot - British troops replied
main challenges of the war of independence
no military training or discipline of the troops, though commanded by G. Washington,
American mountain ranges
The appalachians, The Rocky mts, Sierra Nevada
westward movement/growth
Louisiana purchase (Naploeon 15m), need $ for war with UK, Lewis & Clark expeditions, Oregon trail > west -wagon trains
Potlatches. An Indian giver
a ceremony of giving gifts; the one who wants sth back
Slavery beginnings in America
1619, a Dutch ship brought first 20 black slaves from Africa
the end and the outcome of the american revolution
1781 - British army surrender to Washington, 1783 - TReaty of Paris, official recognition by the UK
First British colony in the New World. City, state, date.
Jamestown, Virginia, 1607
Roots of the War of Independence
Stamp acts, Trade laws, new taxes, housing British troops
Declaration of Independence
07/04, 1776, Continetal Congress issued, drawn up by Thomas Jefferson, a lawyer from Virginia, John Hanckock-first to sing, famous signature phrase
First European explorers before Columbus
Vikings from Iceland, Lucky Leif
Discovery of America, who/when, naming of the continent
discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492; named after Amerigo Vespucci, an italian merchant, who first understood that it was the new continent
Pilgrim fathers
settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first permanent colony in New England ( arrived on Mayflower ship in 1620)
The Boston Massacre
1770, first armed conflict with the British army, three poeple dead, resonated across the country due to the popular engraving thereof
Tidewater period in the colonies
majority lived close to the coast, travelled by rivers and close to them
Geography of the North American continent
is washed by the Atlantic(E) and the Pacific(W) o, borders Canada, Mexico,
The Boston Tea Party
1773, colonists disguised as Amerinidians throw tea from the British ships into the ocean
First original colonies? How many? Can you give names?
13: New Hampshire, Mass, Rh Isl and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, NY, NJ, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, N & S Carolina, Georgia
moving westward in the colonies
moved in search of more fertile soil
Civil war, cause and result
Lincoln, election, new repub party, abolitionists, material adv of N, spiritual adv of S, preserve the union, abolish slavery, emancipation proclamation
Why people moved to America in the beginning?
in search of riches, from religious or political persecution,
Biggest Lakes
Superior, Michigan, Ontario, Huron, Erie,
The story of Pocahontas.
A daughter of an Indian tribe's chief who saved a settler from being killed. First Amerinidian to visit London in 1616.
State names origins
...
"Frontier" way of life for settlers
Independent American settlers: long distance between villages/farms, people depended solely on themselves, tough character
Who said and why: "let sleeping dogs lie"
British Pm Robert Walpole about the colonists, wasn't wise to distrub them
North and South
abolitionists, the Missouri compromise, cotton gin, Fugitive Slave Act, bounty hunters, Underground railroad, John Brown-bleeding Kansas, new Republican party
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