General Introductory Review

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General Introductory Review
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Thirteen Original Colonies
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NEW ENGLAND COLONIES

• Puritans
• Religious
• Land rocky
• Climate long, harsh winters
• Subsistent Farmers
• Sold FISH and LUMBER for profit

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MIDDLE COLONIES

• European Germans, French, Irish, Scots, Swedes
• Bread Colonies
• corn
• wheat

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SOUTHERN COLONIES

• Searching for gold
• Trading with Indians
• Good soil and climate for crops
• Many small farms
• Small number of large
• plantations
• Tobacco and Rice

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AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• Declaration of Independence
• Thomas Jefferson wrote Declaration
• Freedom from Great Britain
• Continental Army led by George Washington

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

• Latin motto e pluribus unum
• from many, one
• Found on Seal of the United States

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• Found on Presidential Seal

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• Found on money

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

• United States Constitution
• Oldest living constitution in the world

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3 Branches of Government

• Executive enforces laws
• Legislative makes laws
• Judicial interprets laws

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BILL OF RIGHTS

• First 10 Amendments
• Guarantees INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
• Written by James Madison

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Tidbits

• Lewis and Clark sent by President Thomas
  Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory

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Trail of Lewis and Clark
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Tidbits continued

• Francis Scott Key

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Star Spangled Banner
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• This is the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key
  to write The Star-Spangled Banner.
• The flag flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore
  during the 1814 battle at the fort.
• Adopted by Congress as the U.S. national anthem
  in 1931.

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5 CIVILIZED INDIAN TRIBES

• Cherokee
• Chocktaw
• Chickasaw
• Creek
• Seminole

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TRAIL OF TEARS 1838 - 1839

• Forced march of the 5 Civilized Tribes to the
  Oklahoma Territory

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Civil War
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• President of the United States
• Glue that held the Union together

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JEFFERSON DAVIS

• President of the Confederate States of America
• Graduate of West Point
• Senator from
• Mississippi
• Born in Christian County
• Kentucky

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Issues

• Economic
• South agricultural
• North industrial
• Tariff hurt South and helped North
• Tariff tax on imports

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• Popular Sovereignty allowing people in a
  territory to decide whether or not to allow
  slavery
• Dred Scott case Supreme Court Case made
  compromise on slavery impossible
• Emancipation Proclamation 1863 Lincoln made
  slavery an issue

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UNION ARMY

• General
• Ulysses Grant

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CONFEDERATE ARMY

• General
• Robert E. Lee

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Surrender

• Appomattox Court House, Virginia
• McLean House
• April 9,1865

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RECONSTRUCTION

• status quo antebellum just the same as before
  the war
• Many people wanted this to be true once the war
  ended.
• RECONSTRUCTION rebuild the U. S. following the
  Civil War 1865-1876

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RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS

• 13TH ABOLISHED SLAVERY - 1865
• 14TH GRANTED CITIZENSHIP TO BLACK
  AMERICANS - 1868
• 15TH GAVE ALL MEN WHO WERE U.S. CITIZENS AND
  AGE 21 AND OLDER THE RIGHT TO VOTE - 1870