A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

IMPORTANT US DATES & PEOPLE JAMESTOWN WAS FOUNDED - 1607 BY JOHN SMITH

PROBLEMS IN JAMESTOWN JAMESTOWN SWAMPY MOSQUITOES SICK INDIANS GREEDY ADVENTURERS 2/3 DIED 1609 - 800 MORE SETTLERS INDIANS STOPPED TRADING SETTLERS SCARED ATE RATS AND MICE ONLY 60 SURVIVED

JOHN ROLFE & TOBACCO JAMESTOWN John Rolfe was a tobacco entrepreneur who married Pocahontas, the daughter of the Algonquian Chief, gave peace between settlers and Indians.

MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620 Agreement signed by 41 men before leaving the Mayflower that outlined a form of government based on social compact. Obey the laws passed by the group was the philosophy that set a precedent for later documents in the development of self-government in America

THANKS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 1776 A committee of Ben Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration to declare the 13 colonies as independent states, free from the rule of Great Britain. The preamble contains the three primary reasons.

THOMAS JEFFERSON When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 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. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1777-1783 1st PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON The war for independence fought between the 13 colonies and Britain. The war began in April 1775. The war for independence fought between the 13 colonies and Britain. The war began in April 1775. The right of the people to control government The acts of the British Parliament which forced the colonists to do things against their will The frustration caused by repeatedly being ignored by the British The right of the people to control government The acts of the British Parliament which forced the colonists to do things against their will The frustration caused by repeatedly being ignored by the British 1st PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION 1787 The Constitution was written in 1787 to correct problems created by the Articles of Confederation in 1781. Includes: Bill of Rights 3 Branches of Government Other Amendments & Laws

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION 1787 The Constitution was written in 1787 to correct problems created by the Articles of Confederation in 1781. Problems with the Articles of Confederation Congress had powers limited to creating laws and entering into treaties Congress could not tax (money by donation only) Congress could not regulate trade Congress could not control coinage (many forms of money) The new constitution address these problems and set forth the foundations of the government we have today.

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION 1787 The Constitution of the United States of America We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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. ================================

LOUISIANA PURCHASE 1803 The Louisiana Territory, consisting of about 800,000 square miles of mostly uncharted land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky mountains, was purchased from France for a mere $15 million by President Thomas Jefferson. Assess why this purchase was perhaps one of the most valuable land buys in US history.

LOUISIANA PURCHASE The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States. As Lewis and Clark explored the area with the help of their Native American guide, Sacagawea, it proved to contain valuable natural resources.

CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 War between the north and the south caused over controversies revolving around the constitution, freedoms, and slavery.

Emancipation Proclamation-freed all slaves in the south on paper ABRAHAM LINCOLN Emancipation Proclamation-freed all slaves in the south on paper

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continents a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle- field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live…. -

RECONSTRUCTION 1865-1877 This was the time period (1865-1877) that the United States took to rebuild the southern states.

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1607 JOHN SMITH 1620 1776 THOMAS JEFFERSON 1777-1783 JAMESTOWN THE FIRST BRITISH SETTLEMENT FOUNDED IN __________ BY _________________. THE GREEDY ADVENTURERS FACED MANY PROBLEMS INCLUDING DISEASE AND FAMINE. MAYFLOWER COMPACT AN AGREEMENT MADE ONBOARD THE MAYFLOWER IN ________ BETWEEN 41 MEN. THEY AGREED THAT ALL PEOPLE WOULD OBEY THE LAWS DECIDED UPON BY THE GROUP. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE DOCUMENT CREATED IN _________, PRIMARILY BY __________________________. ITS PURPOSE WAS TO DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM GREAT BRITAIN BECAUSE THE BRITISH FAILED TO GIVE THE COLONIES RIGHTS THEY FELT ENTITLED TO. AMERICAN REVOLUTION THE WAR FOUGHT AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN FROM ____________ BECAUSE OF THE FAILURE FOR THE BRITISH TO RECOGNIZE THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE 13 COLONIES. 1607 JOHN SMITH 1620 1776 THOMAS JEFFERSON 1777-1783

JAMES MADISON 1787 FRANCE 1803 1861-1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1865-1877 US CONSTITUTION THE DOCUMENT WRITTEN MOSTLY BY ___________________________ IN ____________ (TO REPLACE THE FLAWED ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION) TO SET UP THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WE KNOW TODAY. THIS INCLUDES THE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND OTHER AMENDMENTS. LOUISIANA PURCHASE LAND PURCHASED FROM __________________ IN __________ FOR $15 MILLION. THIS LAND DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE UNITED STATES. CIVIL WAR THE WAR BETWEEN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STATES FOUGHT FROM _________________ DURING THE PRESIDENCY OF ________________________________. THE PRIMARY ISSUES WERE STATES RIGHTS AND SLAVERY. RECONSTRUCTION TIME FROM _______________ USED TO REBUILD THE SOUTH JAMES MADISON 1787 FRANCE 1803 1861-1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1865-1877