Review COLONIES TO THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Review COLONIES TO THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1492 -1865

Colonial Times Mayflower landing near Cape Cod Established Jamestown Used Native Americans to learn ways to survive in new world Other nations in the New World included France and Spain

The French and Indian War France and the Iroquois Native Americans pitted against the British in the New World Very expensive war for everyone involved Heavy taxes imposed by the British on the Colonies in order to pay for the warcolonies very unhappy

The American Revolution Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party The Declaration of Independence Lexington and Concord (The Shot heard ‘round the world) Valley Forge, Washington, and the Delaware Crossing

The United States of America War ended in 1783 with the birth of the United States of America The Articles of Confederation and Shays Rebellion The Constitutional Convention Virginia Plan New Jersey Plan 3/5 Compromise

The War of 1812 British hostility and American Fortitude The Burning of the White House

Native Americans and Westward Expansion Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act Westward Expansion began when people started moving across the Appalachian Mountains into “Indian Territory” Legislation passed to remove, and relocate Native Americans from their homes (1830’s)

The Mexican American War Texas gained it’s independence from Mexico in 1836, expansionist U. S. lead by James K. Polk wanted to complete its manifest destiny Skirmishes broke out all throughout Texas along Rio Grande and eventually War ensued U. S. emerged victorious with new lands in California, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and Nevada from Treaty, Texas in Annexed

From Coast to Coast, now what? Added states brought in new resources and opened up lands to U. S. citizens but a major law dictated how congress would function (is slavery legal) Missouri Compromise of 1820 (Missouri a Slave State) Compromise of 1850 (California Free State, Nevada and Utah ruled by popular sovereignty) What is Popular Sovereignty? Kansas-Nebraska Act (Kansas and Nebraska established, popular sovereignty decided slave or free state) Encouraged John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

Map of U. S. at Kansas-Nebraska Act

South Carolina Secedes- 1861 The Slave states heavily argued against the Federal Governments right to dictate states legislation and saw it as too powerful. Seceded form Union becoming the first state of the Confederate States of America Battle of Fort Sumter

The Civil War The first battle at Bull Run Border States Antietam (Emancipation Proclamation) Gettysburg (Gettysburg Address) The Appomattox Courthouse with Grant and Lee

Lincoln’s Assassination https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=6 q. Ae. Fj. Csc. RY