1. Kennis van land en volk:

2. The New World 1492: Christopher Columbus Aim: find shorter trade route Los Indios – Indians – Native Americans – Amerindians Pueblo, Apache, Iroquois, Sioux, Dakota, Cherokee Farmers, nomads, fierce, warlike Potlatches (gift giving)

3. Indian Affairs: Sitting Bull – Sioux 1881:‘ I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle’ Ghost Dance Movement (1890) Wounded Knee (1890) 1924: Indians were given right to vote

4. Puritan New England Pilgrim fathers (1620) Mayflower Thanksgiving: Fourth Thursday in November ‘Thank God for surviving first year’ Celebrate together with Indians

5. First States New Hampshire Massachusettes New York Rhode Island Connecticut Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia

6. The Stars and Stripes

7. Independence Thomas Jefferson (landowner and lawyer) 4 July 1776 Declaration of Independenc e The United States of America

8. George Washington 1788: First President of USA 1789: Constitution went into effect

9. Amendments 1791: Bill of Rights (freedom of religion, free speech, free press, right to a fair trial) 2nd amendment: 13th amendment:

10. Abraham Lincoln President 1861-1865 Civil War Assassination 1865 John Wilkes Booth

11. Federal Government: branches

12. Congress: -2 Senators per state, 6 years (term)

13. Congress II: House of Representatives: 435 members. Elected every two years Every state represented Capitol Building Washington D.C.

14. Presidents:

15. President Elected every 4 years Voters! Two terms ‘ Kiesmannen’ 270 / 538 Republicans / Democrats Swing states

16. Other Presidents: Rooseveldt: New Deal (1929: Wall Street crash) MacCarthy 1950s: Witch Hunts Kennedy 1963: assassination Nixon 1974: Watergate

17. Statue of Liberty “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

18. The Golden Door 1840-1860: poor crops, hunger, political unrest Irish: potato famine During civil war: many immigrants Melting Pot Ellis Island

19. Black Americans Civil Rights Movement Rosa Parks 1955 Martin Luther King 1968 KKK AAVE (African American Vernacular English)

20. The Anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK7xF1RGCQY&feature=fvwrel