US History Unit #1
Category: Other
Updated: 13 Sep 2017
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Created bySiena Rohan
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1492: Columbus
- Wanted to sail around the world to Asia
- Landed in the "New World"
- Followed by other exploreres by the 1500sSouthern/Jamestown Settled (1607)Middle/Netherlands (1620)New England/Plymouth (1624)Middle/Pennsylvania (1680)Why go to the New World??
Push:
- Starvation, common hunger
- No land or wealth leftover for young sons
- No welfare system
Pull:
- Potential Wealth
- Food / Water
- Fertile Soil
- Friendly IndiansNavigation ActsSugar ActStamp ActTownshed ActTea ActThe Intolerable ActsThe Boston MassacreThe Boston Tea PartySecond Continental CongressBattle of Bunker HillThomas Paine's Common SenseDelegates voted unanimously that the American colonies were free 1776, July 2nd
Now they had to fight for itTreaty of ParisShay's RebellionBritish Soilders sail to New York to seize it with 32,000 soildersArticles of ConfederationVirginia PlanNew Jersey PlanThe Great CompromiseThe 3/5 CompromiseLouisiana PurchaseWar of 1812Monroe DoctrineManifest DestinyMissouri CompromiseCompromise of 1850Kansas Nebraska ActDred Scott CaseBeginning of the Civil WarBattle of GettysburgSouth SurrenderAbraham AssasinatedPeriods
Exploration (1492-1600)Colonial Period (1607 - 1776)The summary of the United States (1787 - 1848)Revolutionary WarThe French and Indian WarWar with MexicoCivil War
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