300 YEARS OF HISTORY

NATIVE AMERICAN DIVERSITY

CULTURE & LIFE IN AFRICA

• Timbuktu- city
• Niger River- gold
• Mansa musa- their emperor
• Islam- Muslim religion
• Caravans- a group of people who travel across a desert together

TRADE, EXPLORATION: BRINGING CULTURES TOGETHER

• Trading: Italy trading with Asia, profit, Mediterranean
• Competing for land: Spain, France, England, Dutch
• Columbian exchange: America and Europe- cattle, corn, potatoes

SLAVERY IN AMERICAS

• Native American servants
• Africans: imminent disease, couldn't run away, farming, sheep labor

JAMESTOWN AND COLONIZATION

• 1607- Jamestown found in Virginia
• 1619- woman and Africans came to Jamestown
• First English colony- Virginia

PURITANS, PILGRIMS, AND NEW ENGLAND, SALEM WITCH TRIALS

• Pilgrims: wanted to separate from Church of England
• Puritans: wanted to reform the Church of England
• Life in England: hard work, religious, farming, fishing, trading
• Salem witch trials: Puritan society, witch hunts, 100 woman arrested, 20 killed(hung)

MIDDLE COLONIES & SOUTHERN COLONIES COMPARISON

• Middle colonies: religious freedom, equality
• Southern colonies: slaves, tobacco, cash crops, plantation

CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION & REVOLUTIONARY WAR

• War: France and England at war for land
• Outcome of war: England won land up to Mississippi
• Colonies upset with England: taxes, stamp tax, sugar act, laws, Boston massacre & tea party

AMERICAN REVOLUTION & DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• Made Declaration of Independence for freedom, own government, no king
• American revolution battles: Lexington and concord- colonists won

AMERICA'S NEW GOVERNMENT

• Article of confederation: blueprints on how to run new government, gave most power to states
• Constitutional convention: in Philadelphia, wanted to design a stronger government, came up with Virginia plan
• Government: 3 branches-executive, judicial, legislative

PRESIDENT WASHINGTON AND FIRST PRESIDENTS

• George Washington: 1st president, humble, state attorney, General/led the war
• John Adams: 2nd president, 1st elected, kept peace with France

ELECTION OF 1800 & THOMAS JEFFERSON

• Election of 1800: Jefferson and Burr-tie, went to House of Representatives 36 times
• Jefferson: 3rd president, democratic values, humble, tried to keep USA small farming country