1. Warm Up
Make a list of the top ten major events that you can remember about US History off the to of your head! Make sure to put them in order in a timeline. Then name the top 3 in order of importance for America! You have 10 minutes to complete the activity!

2. History and Gov’t of the U.S.
Chapter 6 Section 1

4. Spanish Arrived First First Europeans in North America
Founded St. Augustine in 1565
1600s: French settled near Quebec, Canada and English settled Eastern coastline of modern U.S.
English made first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607
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St. Augustine is the oldest permanent Euro settlement in America
French settled in 1600s in modern day Canada near Quebec
English around the same time
Columbian Exchange– Goods native to Europe where traded for native goods from the Americas

5. Columbian Exchange
Goods native to Europe & Africa were traded for goods native to the Americas
Examples of goods going from America to Europe/Africa:
Corn, turkeys, sweet potatoes, peanuts, pineapple
Examples of goods going from Europe/Africa to America:
Cows, pigs, sugar cane, Diseases (smallpox & malaria), coffee

6. Establishing and Maintaining the Union
1763: Great Britain controlled all North America east of Mississippi River
: American Revolution
1803: Louisiana Purchase
: Civil War
1763: 13 colonies are the territory of Great Britain; GB controlled all trade, taxes, and government; colonists had no representation/ability to make decisions for themselves
1775: Resentment from the American colonists against their leaders (who were thousands of miles away) led to the Amer. Revolution; Founded the U.S. and expansion moved rapidly
1803: U.S. nearly doubled in size; Land purchased from France; gained all territory between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mtns.
1861: North had industrialized (began using machinery in textile mills and factories) while the South relied on slave labour for their agricultural production; led to economic and political tension between the North and South; “pitted brother against brother”; Confederacy formed in the South as a separate entity than the Union.

7. What led to industrialization?
Oregon Trail
Wagon train takes 6 months to travel
From 1860 to 1900, 14 million immigrants come to the United States.
Immigrants came here to move westward into the Frontier for a better future
USA goes industrial!
Examples: textile mills, steel production, oil drilling, and food processing
Wagon train taking 6 months to travel
Examples of industrialization: textile mills, steel production, oil drilling, and food processing

8. How Did America Become a Super Power?
Global economic depression and 2 world wars
After WWII, USA the only “healthy” nation
Cold War:
Threats of using nuclear weapons from Russia on the U.S. and vice versa
No real war occurred, mostly threats, spying, & intelligence gathering
Fall of Communism in 1991 made the U.S. the sole Super Power in the world
Cold War- threats of using nuclear weapons from Russia on the U.S. and the U.S. taking the same stance; no real war occurred, mostly threats and spying/intelligence gathering

9. How did America’s economy change?
People move to the suburbs
Equals Rights Movements: 1960s-1970s
Fought for the right to be equal under the law
Dr. MLK Jr. -- Famous political activist
Vietnam War:
U.S. gets involved in a war to “free” the Communist Vietnamese
U.S. economy began to boom
September 11, 2001
Global recession in 2008
Vietnam War: U.S. gets involved in a war between Communists and Non-communists; many believed that the U.S. didn’t belong there; U.S. government went in under the pre-text of “freeing” the Communist citizens; despite everything the economy began to boom!
Equals Rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s were fought for the right to be equal UNDER THE LAW; push back from society made it difficult, but a lot of movements were successful; Dr. MLK Jr. was a famous political activist that wanted to see Blacks and Whites working together for a better future

10. American Government US Constitution was drawn up in 1787
Representative (Republican) democracy- elected to vote/make decisions on our behalf
3 separate but equal branches
Executive- enacts laws
Legislative- carries out the law
Judicial- interprets the law

11. Time for an election and governance!
First
We will begin by having a presidency
Then we will form our Congress
Then we will put together our judiciary
Next
Create a Rule for This Class
Congress will create with Presidential Influence
President will approve or VETO
Judicial will determine if it is legal.