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U.S. HISTORY
UNIT 2 –
CELEBRATION OF
FREEDOM
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
"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."
U.S. CONSTITUTION
We the People of the United States, in
Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic
Tranquility, provide for the common
defence, 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.
Unit 2 - Freedom Week Events
1. Events Leading to Independence
9. Rush of Immigrants (1880 – 1920)
2. The Declaration of Independence
10. Women's Suffrage
3. American Revolution
11. World War I
4. The U.S. Constitution
12. World War II
5. The Bill of Rights
13. Cold War
6. The War of 1812
14. Civil Rights Movement
7. The Civil War
15. The Equal Rights Amendment
8. The Emancipation Proclamation
16. 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Unit 2 - Freedom Week Events
Students Names & Class Period
What – Name of event in U.S. History that provided or
preserved freedom?
Who – Name people, group, and/countries involved in
freedom event?
Event
Picture
When – Timeframe of event?
Where – Place(s) where freedom event took place?
Why - Circumstances around why the event took place?
What was the meaning/result/outcome of the event?
What was the Price/Cost (money amount, life, blood, etc…)
of the event?
Miscellaneous information on event?
One or two pictures that summarizes event.
Save and Title Doc
as such: Freedom
Event #___ Class
Period ____
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Brin Herndon 8th
What – Events Leading to Independence such as the Stamp
act, the Boston tee party, and the Boston massacre.
Who –Colonial America and Great Britain
When – 1763-1776
Where – Colonial America
Why –Because the citizens in the colonies where tired of
Great Britain and there taxes.
What was the result/outcome of the event?
The declaration of Independence and the American
revolution.
What was the Price/Cost (money amount, life, blood, etc…)
of the event? The Boston tee party coast $1,000,000
dollars today in tee was duped. In the Boston massacre 5
people died and six where injured.
Event
Picture
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Cierra Sharp & 7th
What – The Declaration of Independence
Who – Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and John Adams were
people involved.
When – July 1, 1776
Where – Philadelphia
Why – It was written in order to clarify and justify the actions of The Second
Continental Congress, which was to assume the powers of an official government.
What was the result/outcome of the event? Everyone was happier and felt
freedom. They said that it was like rebirth to America.
What was the Price/Cost (money amount, life, blood, etc…) of the event? Five
signers were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons
captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary
War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
Miscellaneous information on event? To buy o copy of the Declaration of
Independence today you have to pay 4.2 million$.
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What – American Revolution
Who – The 13 American Colonies, England, and France.
When – 1775-1783
Where – Maine, Georgia, New Hampshire, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Rhode Island,
and Connecticut.
Why – King George’s unfair treatment & taxes on colonists.
A new country was formed, the United States of America.
25,000 American Patriots died during Revolution.
The French refused to aid the colonists in the beginning the
war in fear of angering King George of England. Later the
French decided to help when they saw the Americans had a
chance of defeating the British.
Event
Picture
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Haley Grantland & Paige Yancy & 8th
What – The Constitution
Who – James Madison wrote The U.S Constitution, 13 colonies.
When – Written in 1787, the Constitution was signed on September 17th.
Where – The U.S constitution took place in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787
Why –The United States Constitution is a system of basic laws and principles
that defines the rights of American citizens and sets limits on what the
government can and cannot do.
What was the result/outcome of the event?- Provided that every state would
give its “Full Faith and Credit” to the laws and decisions of every other state,
and that all citizens would enjoy the privileges and immunities of citizenship in
every state
What was the Price/Cost (money amount, life, blood, etc…) of the event?Purchased by the government in 1837 at a price of $30,000 (that would be
$666,000 today)
Miscellaneous information on event?
• Of the written national constitutions, the U.S. Constitution is the oldest
and shortest.
• The U.S. Constitution was prepared in secret, behind locked doors that
were guarded by sentries.
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Alyssa Salinas, Nijee Jones & 7
What – Bill of Rights
Who – James Madison & George Mason ( groups involved anti-federalists and federalists)
When – on December 15, 1791 is when the Bill of Rights was proposed and ratified.
Where – delegates from the 13 states convened in Philadelphia
Why - the Bill of Rights was made to have a list of limits on government power and to also
assigned specific rights for an individual.
The Bill of Rights limited only actions taken by the federal government against people. The
Founders assumed citizens would be protected by their home states’ constitution. For this
reason, the Bill of Rights did not strongly impact Americans’ lives until the Fourteenth
Amendment was passed. The Fourteenth Amendment applied the Bill of Rights to state
governments. In the twentieth century, the role of the federal government shifted. As a
result of the federal government’s expanded role, its size, purpose, and significance have
changed. The change also affected the national view of the Bill of Rights.
The cost of having the Bill of Rights would be that the government together gave up some
of their power for us in order to provide the rights we have today. For example if we didn't
have the Bill of rights today our government could have possibly been run by dictatorship.
There were three men who refused to sign the Constitution. Elbridge Gerry of
Massachusetts, George Mason of Virginia, and Edmund Randolph of Virginia because
there was no Bill of Rights.
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What – War of 1812
Who – James Madison, Henry clay
When – 1812-1815
Where – The War of 1812 took place in both the U.S. & Canada.
Battles fought in the Great Lakes, the Canadian frontier, the
Southern states and southwestern territories.
Why - U.S. declared war on June 18, 1812 for several reasons,
including trade restrictions by the British war with France.
The War Of 1812 Fought ... British Empire: 1,600 battle deaths,
5,000 total casualties
War cost the U.S. about $200 million, 15,000 total deaths.
U.S. suffered many deaths and the capture and burning of the
White House, Washington, D.C., in August 1814.
Event
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Ezekiel P. & Charles W. 2nd
What – American Civil War
Who – North, South, and United States
When – 1861-1865
Where – Manassas, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and
Vicksburg.
Why - tensions between the northern and southern United States
over issues including states’ rights versus federal authority,
westward expansion and slavery.
The result of the event was the Emancipation Proclamation and
the assassination of President Lincoln
620000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and the
price was 6,190,000,000.
The Kansas-Nebraska act, which essentially opened all new
territories to slavery within three months seven southern states
seceded from the United States.
Event
Picture
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Makenna Rogers, Andrew Jones 2nd period
What – The Emancipation Proclamation
Who – Abraham Lincoln, all enslaved African Americans in
the confederate states.
When – The Emancipation Proclamation ratified in 1863.
Where – It was signed in Antietam, Maryland
Why – It was to grant freedom to the slaves in Confederate
states if the states did not return the Union by January 1,
1863.
What was the outcome? Slaves were free. But Confederate
states didn’t care and still held slaves illegally.
What was the Price/Cost? They had to sacrifice their time
and effort to sign/write it.
Miscellaneous information on event? Lincoln issued the
Proclamation twice, and his advisors didn’t support it.
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What – U.S. Rush of Immigrants
Who – Name people, group. Old Immigrant.
When – 1880 - 1920
Where – Mostly came from the West coast and East
coast.
Why - There are many reasons but the main one is
lack of work in there home country that’s why they
moved to the U.S
What- result. Help Americans build this country.
What Price-Free immigrants.
Miscellaneous. There's 25% of eueapeuons.
Event
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Alvarez, Cristal & Rodriguez, Priscilla 6th period
What –Women’s suffrage the right for women to vote
Who –Susan B. Anthony , Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy
Stone, and Ida B. Wells. Finland, Norway, Austria, Germany,
Poland, Russia, etc.
When – 1920
Where – Seneca Falls, N.Y.
Why- woman wanted the same rights to vote as men
The result/outcome of the event was that woman's got to vote
and run for office
The price/cost of women suffrage was they had to fight bloody
resolution and men had range.
Miscellaneous information: In 1923, the National Women's Party
proposed an amendment to the Constitution that prohibited all
discrimination on the basis of sex. The so-called Equal Rights
Amendment has never been ratified.
Event
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Tristan Rodgers, Jimmy Wesson; 2nd period
What – World War I
Who - Britain, France, Russia, Italy, The United States, Germany,
Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
When – 1914-1918
Where – European Theater and Turkey
Why –The assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by a
Serbian nationalist propelled several countries into total war.
Outcome of the event? The treaty of Versailles and the disbanding
of Prussia and Austria-Hungary
What was the cost of the event? 37,000,000 casualties;
125,690,477 dollars on Allied Side; 60,643,160,000 on Central
Powers side
Miscellaneous – The youngest authenticated combatant, Sidney
Lewis, was only 12
Event
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Kayla Appleton & Montana Armentrout/
2nd period
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What- World War II
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Who –almost every country in the world was involved with the exception of a few
states that remained neutral/ some important people were Adolf Hitler, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, general Hideki Tojo, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini,
and Winston Churchill.
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When-September 1, 1939- September 2, 1945
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Where- Russia, Europe, Africa, Asia, middle east, Pacific ocean, Scandinavia, and
Atlantic ocean.
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Why – World War II started because Japanese militarism (their military) and
invasions of china in the 1930’s, and the biggest reason is that in 1939, Adolf Hitler
invaded Poland, which caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
• The result of World War II was a new age of nuclear weapons, and a cold war had
begun between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• World War II costed $1.075 trillion between all the countries and over 60 million
casualties.
• Miscellaneous- The “we can do it!” girl was promoted during world war II to
promote feminism and spirit to fight.
Freedom Week Event # 13
Jones, Avery & Ramsour, Maxwell 2ndperiod
What- Cold War
Who –USA, Soviet, NATO, UK, and France
When –1947-1991
Where – USA, Soviet Union, Europe, Vietnam, Cuba,
Greece, Korea, East Asia, and South America.
Why –USA and the USSR had a economic struggle between
the two.
Results- U.S. won in the Cold War. Communism fell and
the west won.
The total cost was $8 trillion. 7 Million lives where lost.
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What: Civil Rights Movement
Who: African Americans, Jewish, etc.
When: 1954 1965
Where: The United States ; North Carolina, Alabama,
etc.
Why: To end racial segregation and discrimination
against black Americans and other minorities, and to
secure legal recognition and federal protection of the
citizenship rights counted in the Constitution and
federal law.
What was the result/outcome of the event?: All
Americans are treated with fairness and equality.
What was the Price/Cost (money amount, life, blood,
etc…) of the event?: Several lives of protesters, and
many lives of African Americans.
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Hogan, Ashley 2nd Period
What – Equal Rights Amendment
Who – Women all over the United States and even some men.
When – Equal justice was finally passed March 22, 1972
Where – All over the United States. The first women’s rights convention
was held in Seneca Falls, New York.
Why - The Equal rights amendment never gotten ratified.
What was the result/outcome of the event? The Women’s Equal Rights
Movement was finally passed March 22, 1972.
That’s why today women have the same rights as men and everybody
else.
What was the Price/Cost (money amount, life, blood, etc…) of the event?
Suffragists chained themselves to the white house fence, they held
marches, most suffragists were arrested and taken to jail where they
went on a hunger strike.
Miscellaneous information on event?
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Rostad, Caitlin & Miller, Rose
What – 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Who – Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the Americans were
involved in this event.
When – September 11, 2001
8:46 a.m. Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower
9:03 a.m. Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower
9:37 a.m. Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon
10:03 a.m.
Fourth hijacked plane crashes at 10:03 in a field in Shanksville, Pa
Where – New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania
Why -The presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia, US support of
Israel, and sanctions against Iraq
What was the result/outcome of the event?
2,977 people were killed and more than 6,000 others were
wounded
What was the Price/Cost of the event? $3 billion to $4.5 billion
and 2,977 lives