Learn History as a story something that is connected

tell the story of history

(Cause and Effect)

Find common threads like slavery.

WARS

1) French / Indian War

2) Revolution

3) Civil War

4) WWI

5) WWII

6) Korea

7) Vietnam

8) Cold War

NATIVE AMERICANS

emphasized

land - bridge at the Bering Straight 35,000 BC

During the Ice Age, ice melted

Plains Indians

Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains

nomadic, followed food source

matriarchal - women were in charge

Effects - Spanish brought the horse; but also brought disease

Pueblo

Southwest -

Adobe apartment buildings

farmers - permanent housing

bean, corn and squash

Onsazi

cliff dwellers are their ancestors

EFFECT OF NATIVE AMERICAN EXPANSION

Trail of Tears

Oklahoma

Reservations

EXPLORATION

European Exploration

Columbus

how did country get started?

Marco Polo 1300’s

Explored for spice, silk, gold in the Orient

Land routes blocked by Muslims

PORTUGUESE

Portuguese were early sailors, they sailed along the coast of Africa

Vasco Da Gamma sailed down and around the coast of Africa

Vasco Da Gamma made it all the way around the tip of Africa.

created trade and commerce open a trade route for his country

COLUMBUS

he decided to sail directly west

Lands in west Indies - Cuba, coast of China.

thinks he found China

Spanish go to South America and Mexico

occupy land, enslave people

Mexico

(link this to slavery)

FRENCH

try to go north, away from Spain and Portugal

French cooperate with Indians

Indians tell them to go down St. Lawrence River

Ohio River Valley.

ENGLISH

Atlantic coast

Jamestown 1609

COLONIZATION

SOUTHERN REGION

JAMESTOWN

Virginia, SC, NC, Georgia

Who? English; slaves from Africa

Why? Investment

James River in Virginia

In 6 months 1/2 of them are dead.

Time goes on; southern region turns into plantation

great soil and climate to grow a plantation

plantation - hundreds of acres

cash crop - grow just for profit

Indentured Servant - someone from Europe to work for passage

Tobacco was a major crop

SLAVERY

Portuguese

Triangle Trade

West coast of Africa

middle passage

West Indies

(copy diagram from hand notes)

NORTHERN REGION

religion / Mass. Bay Colony

Puritans

Puritans - religious reasons wanted a pure religion

They were called separatists; pilgrims; puritans

Family, religion, hard work

Did not allow freedom of religion

Roger Williams - Rhode Island

Ann Hutchinson - joined Roger Williams a women who objected to pilgrims

Salem witch hunt.

male ministers in charge of puritans

Great natural resources - power begins to shift to merchants

Puritans - less power

(diagram Slave Trade)

MIDDLE REGION

NY, NJ, PA,

PA - William Penn

a story of each colony

Middle region

people from all over Europe

opportunity for new life

cities, farming (tenant)

middle region farmers

tenant - farming like sharecroppers

job specialists - cooper - miller

people own shops

Pennsylvania - Quaker - tolerant of other beliefs

Quaker - William Penn

a model colony - constitution fairness for Native Americans

13 colonies going along fine

FRENCH & INDIAN WAR

French & the British 100 years war

French in the fur trading business

Taxation w/out representation

King needs money to pay for war

STAMP ACT

whenever you buy something, must place a stamp and pay for them

STAMP ACT

tax collectors were kicked out

King backs off (who was King)

TOWNSEND DUTIES

Lead, glass, paper, paint tea; all taxed. British tried to get them with their imports

Colonists boycotted products

King backs off again

keeps the tea tax, people were nasty to tax collectors

British soldiers sent to Boston

BOSTON MASSACRE

British soldiers open fire on colonists

BOSTON TEA PARTY

Sons of Liberty

They dressed up as Native Americans and dump all the tea in the harbor

INTOLERABLE ACTS

King closed Boston harbor

blockaded it

limit power of legislature

led to Continental Congress

Ben Franklin - join the “snake” or die - stand up together against England

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

BRITISH

Red coats; columns, Hessians

Hessians were hired to fight; German paid soldiers

colonist;

minutemen, militia, guerilla warfare,

militia - volunteer army

succeeded learned from Native Americans

Minute Men - ring a bell they’d be out in a minute

French support the Colonist - part of the 100 years war w/ England

War moved to South

Corn Wallace - he’s successful in South

Lafayette? - Washington

Surrender at Yorktown

NEW NATION PERIOD

First attempt

Article of Confederation

no central gov’t

no power to tax; or control over the states

Why? they didn’t want a King

no one in charge

MADISON - HAMILTON

Federalist Papers

try to persuade you need a strong central gov’t.

wrote - in essays in newspaper

can’t go on, need someone in charge

leads to a change

Constitution is the result

3 Branches

based on John Locke - French idea

Legislature - Representatives and Senate

Executive - President

Judicial - courts - Supreme Court

Checks & Balances

works by checking and balancing each other

Congress 2 years

Senate 6 years

President 4 years

Judge lifetime

Large State, Small state

House of Representative - Based on Population

Senate - 2 for each state

They did not address Slavery

CONSTITUTION

Bill of Rights 1 - 10 Amendments of the Constitution

13th, 14th, 15th Amendment

13th Amendment - Abolish slavery

14th Amendment - Rights of Citizenship

15th Amendment - Guaranteed right to vote for male ex-slaves

GROWTH OF THE REPUBLIC

LOUISIANA PURCHASE

(who was president)

paid 15 million to France

828,000 square miles

Napoleon sold land to France to Thomas Jefferson

LEWIS & CLARK

wanted them to travel to explore

Oregon trail; California trail;

Mormon trail, Santa Fe trail

Independence Miss. to Oregon trail

South Pass - divert the Rocky Mountains along snake and plaid rivers

Columbia River region of Oregon

Oregon inexpensive land

new life; new life, new land, new crops

California Trail

1849 Gold Rush

Stockton, Sacramento

Gold discovered

Independence MO

took Oregon trail

Mormon Trail

eastern cities - wanted to move somewhere Salt Lake City

Oregon trail and drop to Utah

Santa Fe Trail

Southwest - Texas

wanted land

Texas story

land (obey Mexico's laws)

Cheap land

settlers

learn Spanish, become member of Roman Catholic church

learn guns

Mexican gov't upset settlers didn't follow their rules

Sam Houston, Alamo

Santa Ana

13 day battle, everyone killed

Santa Ana defeated troops

Sam Houston defeated the Spanish

they became their own state for 10 years

1845 Texas chooses to become a state

Texas was a Republic for 10 years

Impact on immigration at the growth of cotton plantations in Texas is due to

new technology that enabled them to have larger farms due to a greater

space of land in Texas

Increase in slavery and the cotton gin

Mexican American War

illustrates South still had a demand for slavery

1846 - 1848

Mexico opposes to Texas, becoming US territory

Border disputes (Rio Grande)

Manifest Destiny - it's our destiny to rule the continent

results - Southwest, Texas, California

(15 million)

(Gadsen Purchase) another 5 million for railroads.

SLAVERY ISSUES LEADING TO CIVIL WAR

1820 Missouri and Maine want to be states

MISSOURI COMPROMISE

1820

Missouri slave state

Maine free state

Henry Clay Great Compromise

COMPROMISE OF 1950

California free state

other territories could decide

fugitive slave act

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

this becomes federal law

slave becomes property

SLAVERY ISSUES

Dread Scott Decision 1857

Dread Scott was a slave

owners went to a free territory

is he free because he was a free man

Supreme Court said he was property, slaves were property

Anti - slave groups enraged

ELECTION OF 1860

Lincoln

Anti-slave platform

states believed in states rights

RECONSTRUCTION

Rebuilding the South

1865 - 1877 how do you make these people citizens

13th Amendment - abolish slavery

people who were slaves what do they do

14th Amendment - rights of citizenship; all former slaves become citizens

still doesn't work

15th Amendment - right to vote for male ex-slaves

JIM CROW laws

south laws

ex-slaves do not go certain places

ex-slaves have no rights

to enforce Jim Crow laws

enforced with lynching

federal gov't ignored lynching

SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

states would induce literacy laws

they had poll taxes

1) poll tax

2) literacy laws

KKK - specially to stop voting

1865 Civil War ended

Civil Rights Act of 1875 - to stop Jim Crow laws - didn't work

PLESSY VS. FERGUSON 1896

validated 'separate but equal'

went against 14th Amendment

where he could sit on the train

Supreme Court said he had a place to sit

BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCATION

1954 Undid Plessy vs. Ferguson

This undoes (Plessy vs. Ferguson)

1963 MARTIN LUTHER KING

March on Washington "I have a Dream"

what that speech is about

what was he trying to accomplish

1964 - CIVIL RIGHT ACT

Lyndon Johnson

period of time in America, know Civil Right Johnson, not Vietnam Johnson

(12:45 lunch break)

IMMIGRATION

not stressed here (know for Lang. Arts)

1820 to 1930 more than 37 million people come to US

People come for new life;

adventure, to escape problems in their home country, religious freedom,

or sold into slavery

many settled into cities

most population movement because of jobs

INDUSTRIALIZATION

steam engine and growth of railroads

jobs - textile mills - population movement

cotton gin

FACTORIES

RAILROADS

STEEL PRODUCTIVITY IN PITTSBURGH

POPULATION MOVEMENT - FARMS TO CITIES

IMMIGRATION

had no control over their lives in the factories of the new world

WORLD WAR I

President Wilson

wanted to rebuild Europe

League of Nations

country voted no.

we were Isolated at this time

TREATY OF VERSAILLES - no Congress voted no.

WAR GUILT CLAUSE

strict restriction on Germany

pay 37 million, led to WWII

HITLER'S IMPACT on WWII (MSAT big on Hitler)

US Isolationism

WORLD WAR II

Impact of Hitler

US stayed out of War

Hitler began taking land with approval of France and England

US remained Isolationist

1939 non-aggression pact between Germany and Soviet Union

(Poland, ends in 1941)

Pearl Harbor

we were cutting off oil supply to Japan

END OF WWII - Cold War

1945 Cold war begins

Soviet troops remain in Eastern European countries

Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech

Iron Curtain - split between communist East Europe and democratic West

War of words and ideas not weapons

Communist scare

Senator Joseph McCarthy, blacklisting people

Domino theory - foreign policy for Vietnam and Korea

1945 - 1990 END OF COLD WAR

Gorbachev

Perestroika - Restructuring

Glasnost - Openness

1985

1989 - 1990

Soviet Union doesn't stop Eastern European countries from leaving Soviet Union

Berlin Wall falls

GREECE

Alexander the Great - conquered, spread Greek culture

established great cities

Empire stretched from Greece in the west to India in the east

died when 32

Empire divided among generals

FALL OF ROME

problem choosing leaders

heavy taxation to support military

diseases

outside attack from barbarians

conflict over power

problems with economy and food production

AFRICA

Africa 1945 - 1990

movement toward independence

they show 2 maps

they were highly controlled

Middle East - formation of State of Israel

RENAISSANCE

Michelangelo

DaVinche

MIDDLE AGES

Feudalism - economic structure - land owners and peasants

no middle class

no education or science structure

BLACK PLAGUE

wiped out a huge population of Europe

Church thought it was the cats, it was the rats that carried the disease

ANCIENT CIVILIZATION

prosper and decline

(1st lesson in BS answer)

1) always (water)

2) always (food source)

3) structured religion

4) common purpose

5) defense

6) strong leadership

DECLINE

1) natural disaster

2) disease - and thee undoing of any of the above

WRITING ESSAYS

8 to 10 minutes in length

Pre - Write clustering outlining

1 minute - pre-write

Do those you know 1st

personal note (I'm going to go in order, just do it)

write complete, clear, concise, sentences

Edit at the end, when all 18 are done

Don't leave an essay blank

make up stuff

(respond to something everyday

personal notes ( on the essay, make sure to support with details. Throw details that you know, even if they don't seem to answer the question.

Sample Essay Questions

How did the role of the US change after WWII.

What were the results of the Spanish American War?

Cuba

yellow journalism - trying to push for political things -

results, Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and an independent Cuba

Battleship Maine was sunk,

Rise of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

PITTSBURGH STEEL MILLS

Why did Pittsburgh become a center of steel production in the early 1900's?

What event in the early 1900's created demand for steel?

Cars

BLACK PLAGUE

What factors led to the population increase 1500 to 1800?

Renaissance

Classical thought allows them to find a cure

industrialization

education

growth of the middle class

control of disease ( Plague - Black Death)

Presidential approval slide

Two maps of the US - 1811 - 1854

Domino Theory

PROGRESSIVISM - Teddy Roosevelt

Speak softly - carry a big stick

try to help the little man

trying to stop big business - conglomerates

NEW DEAL - FDR

try to get the country back on track

Social Security

WPA

CCC

TVA Tenn. Valley Authority

more power for unions

FDR very popular

ways of getting people back to work

HITLER / STALIN

MUCKRAKERS / TEDDY ROOSEVELT

Teddy Roosevelt in favor of writers in support of workers

PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT

Upton Sinclair

BIG STICK THEORY