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? SHARE OUT

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 Independence Second 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