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A Difficult Past How the Americas Change By: Tryzon Valencia

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Page 1: A Difficult Past

A Difficult Past How the Americas Change

By: Tryzon Valencia

Page 2: A Difficult Past

The Little Ice Age• Only 30% of the world was covered in ice; very

climatic shift; even with only a few drop in temperature ; happened right after the “medieval warm period.”

• Caused a lot of major food problems; no good land to farm on and people failed to understand the choice of crops such “wheat & grains” were a vulnerable to the change in rainy climate.

• Glaciers of the Alps swiftly advances surround the area, and the people believed it to be possessed

• The cooler time played hard on the humanity and changed the course of history

• Created fathom in which people of France demanded affordable bread that led to the French Revolution

• 1347 Plague arrived in Europe, people weakened by fathom. Rat carried fleas that help spread the epidemic

• They accused others of being witches and bringing about the weather, burnt thousands of people

• Potatoes grew underground, saved many.• Americans drink beer more since the Ice Age killed

grape vines, used leftover of cereal crops to make beer move to North America

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Frontiers of the Americas• April 30th 1803, purchase of land

North American colonies doubled the amount of states known as the Louisiana Purchase

• Cost 15million dollars from the French “Napoleon”

• America acquired due to the court intrigues of the Spanish crown, Napoleon, and ice storms

• Britain loan the money to keep France out of North America, though the money helped funded the French

• French ruler cared very little of Louisiana was much more interested in the Caribbean and wanted Haiti

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Frontiers of the Americas• 1833 Prince Maximilian and a Swiss

artist Bodmer went to study and write about the culture of the Indians in the jungles of Brazil

• The buffalo had great trade value between the native Americans and the “whites”

• The “whites” kill many buffalo, caused the tribe to migrate to start a new culture

• Bodmer and Maximilian spread smallpox to Mandan tribe leader, which resulted the tribe killing the two, the tribe soon followed death by infection of smallpox

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Crossroads of Freedom• September 17, 1862 Village near

Sharpsburg Maryland, bloodiest war in American history. 6,300 to 6,500 Union and Confederate soldiers dead

• 11 States establish a government of Confederacy near Richmond controlling 750,000 square miles of land

• The South only needed to defend what they already had by fighting off the Union from taking their land

• Lincoln had to defeat Confederate Army and occupy their land which seems impossible

• 1861 Union Navy captured bases, Northern troops secured Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland; they drove the Confederate out of West Viriginia

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Crossroads of Freedom• Union captured a warship envoy which

had James Mason and John Slidell from the British steamer “Trent” which almost sparked a diplomatic crisis and a war with Britain in which the Union release them (North looked bad afterwards)

• 1861 June to July McClellan lead Union army to secure most of West Virginia

• McClellan loyalty was questioned since he was “soft” on the South and Slavery. McClellan was “fighting to preserve the integrity of the Union

• 1861 Ulysses S Grant took command of troops in Cairo Illinois, sent troops to occupy Paducah

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Crossroads of Freedom• April 5th 1862 McClellan lead Virginia

Peninsula for the siege of Yorktown• 1861 Union was considered hopeless

by European observers• Confederacy have won most battles:

Manassas, Wilson’s Creek (Missouri), and Balls Bluff

• Thomas J Jackson “Stonewall” renowned commander in the south and most feared in the North

• First Seven Days battle, 20,000 Confederates and Federal dead

• McClellan was mentally defeated though his army was good to continue the fight and retreated southward to a base on the James River

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Crossroads of Freedom• 1862 Cotton Famine• Confederate success in Shenandoah

Valley and Seven Days battle showed Europeans the North was going to fall

• Fredrick Douglass, pushed Lincoln to make war for freedom for the slaves

• July 12th Lincoln frustrated went ahead with Proclamation of Emancipation

• August 27 Jackson destroyed Manassas Junction, Virginia

• September 18 McClellan received reinforcements at Sharpsburg and won the battle, though he was underappreciated