a difficult past

A Difficult Past How the Americas Change

By: Tryzon Valencia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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