Transcript Brief History of the US

A BRIEF HISTORY
OF THE
UNITED STATES
IMPORTANT US
DATES & PEOPLE
PROBLEMS IN JAMESTOWN
•SWAMPY
•MOSQUITOES
1609 - 800 MORE SETTLERS
•SICK
INDIANS STOPPED TRADING
•INDIANS
SETTLERS SCARED
•GREEDY
ADVENTURERS
ATE RATS AND MICE
•2/3 DIED
ONLY 60 SURVIVED
JOHN ROLFE & TOBACCO
John Rolfe was a tobacco
entrepreneur who married
Pocahontas, the daughter of
the Algonquian Chief, gave
peace between settlers and
Indians.
Agreement signed by 41 men
before leaving the Mayflower that
outlined a form of government
based on social compact. Obey
the laws passed by the group was
the philosophy that set a
precedent for later documents in
the development of selfgovernment in America
THANKS
A committee of Ben Franklin, John Adams,
Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and
Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration
to declare the 13 colonies as independent
states, free from the rule of Great Britain.
The preamble contains the three primary
reasons.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's
God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The war for independence fought between the 13
colonies and Britain. The war began in April 1775.
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The right of the people to control
government
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The acts of the British Parliament which
forced the colonists to do things against
their will
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The frustration caused by repeatedly
being ignored by the British
The Constitution was
written in 1787 to correct
problems created by the
Articles of Confederation
in 1781.
Includes:
 Bill of Rights
 3 Branches of
Government
 Other Amendments &
Laws
The Constitution was written in 1787 to correct problems
created by the Articles of Confederation in 1781.
Problems with the Articles of Confederation
Congress had powers limited to creating laws
and entering into treaties
Congress could not tax (money by donation only)
Congress could not regulate trade
Congress could not control coinage (many forms of
money)
The new constitution address these problems and set forth
the foundations of the government we have today.
The Constitution of the United States of America
We the people of the United States, in order to form
a more perfect union, establish justice, insure
domestic tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare, and secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America.
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The Louisiana Territory,
consisting of about 800,000
square miles of mostly
uncharted land extending
from the Mississippi River to
the Rocky mountains, was
purchased from France for a
mere $15 million by
President Thomas Jefferson.
Assess why this purchase was perhaps one of the most
valuable land buys in US history.
The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United
States. As Lewis and Clark explored the area with the help
of their Native American guide, Sacagawea, it proved to
contain valuable natural resources.
War between the north and the south
caused over controversies revolving
around the constitution, freedoms,
and slavery.
Emancipation
Proclamation-freed all
slaves in the south on
paper
Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continents a new
nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created
equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil
war, testing whether that nation or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can
long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives that that
nation might live…. -
This was the time
period (1865-1877)
that the United
States took to
rebuild the
southern states.
TAKE OUT
YOUR PEN OR
PENCIL.
JAMESTOWN
1607 BY
THE FIRST BRITISH SETTLEMENT FOUNDED IN __________
_________________.
JOHN SMITH THE GREEDY ADVENTURERS FACED MANY PROBLEMS
INCLUDING DISEASE AND FAMINE.
MAYFLOWER COMPACT
1620 BETWEEN
AN AGREEMENT MADE ONBOARD THE MAYFLOWER IN ________
41 MEN. THEY AGREED THAT ALL PEOPLE WOULD OBEY THE LAWS
DECIDED UPON BY THE GROUP.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
THE DOCUMENT CREATED IN _________,
1776 PRIMARILY BY
__________________________.
THOMAS
JEFFERSON ITS PURPOSE WAS TO DECLARE
INDEPENDENCE FROM GREAT BRITAIN BECAUSE THE BRITISH FAILED TO
GIVE THE COLONIES RIGHTS THEY FELT ENTITLED TO.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1777-1783 BECAUSE
THE WAR FOUGHT AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN FROM ____________
OF THE FAILURE FOR THE BRITISH TO RECOGNIZE THE INDEPENDENCE OF
THE 13 COLONIES.
US CONSTITUTION
JAMES MADISON IN
THE DOCUMENT WRITTEN MOSTLY BY ___________________________
1787
____________
(TO REPLACE THE FLAWED ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION)
TO SET UP THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WE KNOW TODAY. THIS
INCLUDES THE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND
OTHER AMENDMENTS.
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
FRANCE
1803 FOR $15
LAND PURCHASED FROM __________________
IN __________
MILLION. THIS LAND DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE UNITED STATES.
CIVIL WAR
THE WAR BETWEEN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STATES FOUGHT
FROM _________________
DURING THE PRESIDENCY OF
1861-1865
________________________________.
THE PRIMARY ISSUES WERE STATES
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
RIGHTS AND SLAVERY.
RECONSTRUCTION
TIME FROM _______________
1865-1877 USED TO REBUILD THE SOUTH