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SOUTHERN COLONIES 13 Colonies Plantation system and slaves Fertile soil and long growing season Cash crops – rice tobacco- indigo
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SOUTHERN COLONIES
13 Colonies
Plantation system and slaves
Fertile soil and long growing season Cash crops – rice tobacco- indigo
MIDDLE COLONIES
13 Colonies
Great harbors Good soil for farming Livestock
NEW ENGLANDCOLONIES
13 Colonies
Rocky soil Long winters Along Atlantic Ocean Fishing Trade Ship Building
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SOUTHERN
COLONIES
Virginia 1607Maryland 1634North Carolina 1653South Carolina 1663Georgia 1732
13 Colonies
4 MIDDLE COLONIE
S
13 Colonies
Delaware 1638New Jersey 1664New York 1664Pennsylvania 1682
4 NEW
ENGLAND COLONIE
S
Massachusetts 1620New Hampshire 1623Connecticut 1635Rhode Island 1636
13 Colonies
PILGRIMS“Separatists” who felt problems from the Church of England were too severe and left for the new world to form their own church.
13 Colonies
QUAKERS Religious group known for peaceful nature and treating Indians fairly.
William Penn established Pennsylvania for the Quakers
13 Colonies
Mayflower Compact (1620)
13 Colonies
Social contract signed by men aboard the
Mayflower to govern their colony. It
established the idea of self-government and
majority rule.
The first assembly of
elected representatives
of English colonists in
North America.
13 Colonies
Virginia House of Burgesses
Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut
13 Colonies
This document was the first written
constitution in the colonies established
by the Puritan community in Connecticut.
Puritans
Early Europe
Puritans wanted to fix or purify the issues of the
Church of England
EARLY EUROPE
Protestant Reformation The movement that
divided Christians into Catholic and
Protestant because of supposed corruption
in the Catholic church.
Proclamation of 1763
EARLY EUROPE
The King’s order that prohibited
the colonists from establishing
settlements west of the
Appalachian Mountains.
EARLY EUROPE
Martin Luther
German monk who wrote 95 reasons the Catholics Church was corrupt, causing the
Reformation.
Magna Carta
EARLY EUROPE
King John I of England was
forced to sign a charter giving people certain
rights and limiting his own rights
1607In this year, the first permanent
English settlement in
North America was established in Jamestown.
DATES
1620
Pilgrims establish Plymouth
Rock
DATES
DATES
The Treaty that officially ended the French and
Indian war.
1763
Treaty of Paris
Declaration of Independence
1776
DATES
The Treaty that
officially ended the
French and Indian war.
DATES
American Revolutionary
War
1775-1781
Colonists fight for
independence from England.
1787
DATES
This was the year that the U.S. Constitution was accepted as the official plan for our
nations government.
1803
DATES
The United States buys the Louisiana
Territory for $15 million from
France doubling the size of the
nation.
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
GLORIUS REVOLUTION --- William and Mary
brought about a change of leadership
in England by overthrowing King
James II
DATES
1861-1865
Also known as the War Between the States, the United States was divided over the issues of
states rights , trade and tariffs, and
slavery.
THE CIVIL WAR
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
English Bill of Rights
An agreement that William and Mary had to sign before taking the throne, to respect the rights of the English people.
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Enlightenment
An intellectual movement stressing science and reason- appealed to mostly
wealthy.
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Ben Franklin A well known “Enlightenment” thinker who had an idea to unite
the colonies.
Known for creating the Albany Plan of
Union
The 1st formal proposal to unite the colonies.
(Ben Franklin’s idea)
The Albany Plan
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
John Locke Enlightenment
thinker argued that people have natural
rights.
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The Great Awakening
Emotional religious conversions from a state of sin to a "new birth" given through dramatic and powerful preaching.
It was a new effort to reach out to Native Americans and African-Americans.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Lexington/Concord
April 1775 The 1st battle of the American Revolution before the Declaration of Independence was created.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Paul Revere
He warned the colonists at the
start of the Revolutionary War that “the
British are coming”.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Lexington, Massachusett
s
The British were going to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock;
It was the “shot heard around the world.”
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The British were going to Concord to destroy supplies at the arsenal.
Concord, Massachusetts
Sons of Liberty
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
A secret society of colonists who wanted freedom from Britain .
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Common Sense “ These are the times
that try men’s soul.”
A revolutionary
pamphlet written in 1776 by
Thomas Paine supporting American
Independence.
Patrick Henry “Give me
liberty or give me death.”
One of the most famous of
the Sons of Liberty.
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Thomas Jefferson
The 3rd President of the United States
He wrote the Declaration of Independence
& purchased the
Louisiana Territory from France.
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
The 1st President of the United States
He was the Commander of the Continental
Army
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Samuel Adams Leader of the
Sons of Liberty and also helped plan the Boston Tea Party.
GOVERNMENT
Articles of Confederatio
n
The first Constitution of
the United States which specified how the Federal
government was to operate.
GOVERNMENT
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
A plan for the orderly expansion of the United States
(How to become a territory, a state.)
THE CONSTITUTION
PREAMBLE
Introduction to the Constitution – It tells what the founding fathers set out to do.
We the people,In order to form a
more perfect union,Establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility,Provide for the
common defense,Promote the general
welfare andSecure the blessings
of libertyTo ourselves and our
posterityDo ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of
America.
THE CONSTITUTION
Congress
THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE:
The House of Representatives – based on population of the state represented
The Senate – 2 senators from each state/equality.
THE CONSTITUTION
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Branch of government that makes the laws ----
Otherwise known as
CONGRESS
THE CONSTITUTION
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Branch of government that carries out the laws----
The President and Cabinet
THE CONSTITUTION
JUDICIAL BRANCH
Branch of government interprets the laws *******
The Supreme Court
THE CONSTITUTION
CHECKS AND BALANCES The ability of
each branch of government to limit the power of the other two.
THE CONSTITUTION
BILL OF RIGHTS
The 1st Ten Amendments to the Constitution that guarantee every citizen certain fundamental rights that the government should NOT be able to take away.
REPUBLIC
A representative democracy –You elect people to represent you in government.
GOVERNMENT
CIVIL WAR
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
President of the United States during the Civil War.
CIVIL WAR
STATES RIGHTS
At the time of the Civil War, the South
believed the States had more power than
the Federal Government.
CIVIL WAR
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Statement made by President Abraham
Lincoln that freed the slaves in the
Confederate States.
CIVIL WAR
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
JULY 1-3, 1863
The bloodiest battle of the Civil
War and was fought over 3
days.
CIVIL WAR
BATTLE OF VICKSBURG
Gave the North complete control over the Mississippi River
thus cutting the South in two.
CIVIL WAR
ANTIETAM(Battle at
Sharpsburg)
The bloodiest day in American History
– 51,112 casualties
September 17, 1862
CIVIL WAR
Ft. Sumter
April 12-13, 1861
The Confederate forces fire the first
shot of the Civil War upon Union forces at
Ft. Sumter, South Carolina.
CIVIL WAR
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
(The Southern States)
The name given to the 11 states that
withdrew from the Union and formed their own nation.
CIVIL WAR
The Union(Northern States)
The name given to the 20 free states and 5 border states that remained and gave support to the federal government.
