US History week 1

1. ANALYZE THE QUOTE
WARM UP

2. US HISTORY
Mr. Russell
D-109

14. SO WHY DOES HISTORY
MATTER?

15. WARM UP- BRAIN DUMP
You have 10 minutes to write as much as you
remember about the Revolutionary War and
the founding of the United States. You DO
NOT have to write in full sentences. You can
write names, dates, places, events, themes,
weaponry, or any other words you can think of
on the topic.

16. US HISTORY
A young nation with a bright
future

17. LINCOLN CASTLE- ENGLAND; BUILT
1068

18. NOTRE DAME- PARIS, FRANCE; BUILT
1163

19. OLD STATE HOUSE- BOSTON,
MASSACHUSETTS; BUILT 1713

20. A BLIND SPOT IN HISTORY
Before First Contact

21. EVOLUTION OF HOUSING IN EUROPE

22. NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING

23. EVOLUTION OF WARFARE IN EUROPE

24. NATIVE AMERICAN WEAPONRY

25. A BRIEF LOOK AT NATIVE
AMERICANS PRE-CONTACT

27. ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
 Native- a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth
 Nation- a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language,
inhabiting a particular country or territory
 Nomad- a member of a people having no permanent living space, and who travel from place
to place to find essential resources for survival (food, shelter, safety)
 Tribe- a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by
social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a
recognized leader.

28. WARM UP
 A colony is a country or area under the full or
partial political control of another country, and
occupied by settlers from that country. What
might be some reasons that a nation would want
to have colonies?

29. Who am I and What am I thinking about?

32. THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
AND COLONIZATION

34. VIRGIN-SOIL EPIDEMIC
• It is estimated that between 1492 and 1650 the Native American
population declined by as much as 90% as the result of virgin-soil
epidemics
• It is also estimated that 7% of the native population declined from other
consequences of European contact. What might these consequences be?
• The result is 97% of the native population died as a result of European
contact

35. DISCUSSION
How should we judge the actions of the
Europeans during the age of exploration and
colonization?

36. WARM UP
Slavery in North America lasted from the early 1600’s until 1863, if
we assume that the millions of Americans who lived during that time
were not all terrible people why do you think slavery was legal for so
long when a lot of people at the time knew it was wrong?

37. THE BEGINNINGS OF AN AMERICAN
GOVERNMENT

38. The Mayflower

39. • HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=2ZE0CP
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Who were The Pilgrims?

40. Your Mayflower Compact

41. THE 13 COLONIES AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

43. NORTHERN COLONIES
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut

44. NORTHERN COLONIES ECONOMY
Small Farms
Ship building
Lumber
Fishing
Trading

45. SOUTHERN COLONIES
Maryland
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia

46. SOUTHERN COLONIES ECONOMY
Rice
Cotton
Tobacco
Indigo

47. THE MIDDLE COLONIES
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware

48. MIDDLE COLONIES ECONOMY
Trading between North and South
Grain

49. SUBSISTENCE FARMING VS CASH CROPS

50. TRIANGLE TRADE AND THE HORRORS OF THE SLAVE
TRADE

51. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE AND THE ATLANTIC SLAVE
TRADE
Atlantic Slave Trade video

52. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
1775-1783

53. BY THE
NUMBERS
• 25,000 Revolutionary Soldiers died during the war
• 24,000 British Soldiers were killed during the war
• 1 in 20 able bodied white free males living in America died during the war
• 55,000 Americans served as privateers during the war
• 80,000 militia and Continental Army soldiers served at the height of the war
• 56,000 British soldiers fought at the height of the war
• 30,000 German mercenaries known as Hessians fought for the British during the war

54. THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN
Yorktown Virginia;
September 1781–October 1781
Effectively ended the war with a Franco-American victory

55. NOW WHAT?
After the war the continental congress who ran the
revolutionary government needed to create a new
government that all 13 colonies would support.

56. 2 PLANS
Virginia Plan VS New Jersey Plan

57. Warm Up:
What do you
think is going
on in this
painting? How
do you know?
Take a guess
at what
historical event
this painting
depicts

58. WESTWARD EXPANSION