A New Republic

Activating Strategy

List 5 major events in American history, in sequence

Word sort: vocabulary with meaning Shout it out

Vocabulary

indigenous: people native to the land

representation: having someone to speak for you or represent your ideas

Revolution: a sudden and complete change in government or people’s lives

Vocabulary

declaration: official statement

Independence: freedom to rule oneself

constitution: written plan of government

republic: citizens vote for officials

Native Americans

Northeast and South tribes: hunted deer and other animals, farmed

Middle West

Hunted bison or buffalo Used all parts for:

clothing food shelter

West

Settled along Pacific coast Fished Hunted whale

1492 Columbus

in search of new trade route to Asia; Columbus sailed for King Ferdinand of Spain

landed on island of San Salvador

opened the Americas to settlement

Turn and Talk

How might the Americas (North and South) be different had not Columbus landed in San Salvador?

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European Invasion

Many European colonists journeyed to America for:

religious freedoms

wealth

Spanish

First to arrive in present day United States

Claiming land in South and West regions; Florida

French Invasion

Claimed what is now Canada

Claimed much of the Middle West region; Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin

Great Britain (England)

Claimed land along the Atlantic Coast

13 colonies: North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Maine

Rebellion and Independence

1763:French and Indian War (dispute between colonists and Native Americans over land between the Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River)

Result: Britain’s victory gave them almost complete control of eastern North America

Rebellion and Independence

Result of French and Indian War: Britain’s victory gave them almost complete control of eastern North America

Rebellion and Independence

After war, King George wanted colonists to pay for war = increase taxes on goods sent from Great Britain

“Taxation without Representation”= raising taxes without asking the colonists

Rebellion and Independence

1775: colonists grow more and more angry as new laws were taking away freedoms and rights

Patrick Henry … “give me liberty or give me death”

Rebellion and Independence

1774 First Continental Congress 1.met in Philadelphia

2 representatives from the colonies decided not to obey British rule

Rebellion and Independence

April 19, 1775: battle at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts broke out between British troops and Patriots= beginning of American Revolution

Rebellion and IndependenceSecond Continental Congress

1.army established 2. T. Jefferson appointed to began to write

declaration 3 appointed George Washington as leader

July 4, 1776=declared independence, first national holiday

Rebellion and Independence

September 3, 1783 Treaty of Paris=ended American Revolution

13 colonies became 13 states Symbol of freedom and opportunity

Articles of Confederation

first constitution states had majority authority; citizens

wanted this congress had little authority afraid of strong government finally realized state control was not

working

Constitutional Convention