13 Colonies
 Plantation system
and slaves
 Fertile soil and long
growing season
SOUTHERN
COLONIES
 Cash crops – rice
tobacco- indigo
13 Colonies
Great harbors
Good soil for farming
 Livestock
MIDDLE
COLONIES
13 Colonies
Rocky soil
 Long winters
 Along Atlantic Ocean
 Fishing
 Trade
 Ship Building
NEW
ENGLAND
COLONIES
13 Colonies
Virginia
Maryland
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
5
SOUTHERN
COLONIES
1607
1634
1653
1663
1732
13 Colonies
Delaware
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
4
MIDDLE
COLONIES
1638
1664
1664
1682
13 Colonies
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Rhode Island
4
NEW
ENGLAND
COLONIES
1620
1623
1635
1636
13 Colonies
PILGRIMS
“Separatists” who felt
problems from the
Church of England
were too severe and
left for the new world
to form their own
church.
13 Colonies
QUAKERS
Religious group known
for peaceful nature
and treating Indians
fairly.
William Penn
established
Pennsylvania for the
Quakers
13 Colonies
Mayflower
Compact
(1620)
Social contract signed
by men aboard the
Mayflower to govern
their colony. It
established the idea of
self-government and
majority rule.
13 Colonies
The first assembly
of elected
representatives of
English colonists
in North America.
Virginia House of
Burgesses
13 Colonies
Fundamental
Orders of
Connecticut
This document was
the first written
constitution in the
colonies established
by the Puritan
community in
Connecticut.
Early Europe
Puritans
wanted to fix
or purify the
issues of the
Church of
England
Puritans
EARLY EUROPE
Protestant
Reformation
The movement that
divided Christians
into Catholic and
Protestant because of
supposed corruption
in the Catholic
church.
EARLY EUROPE
Proclamation
of 1763
The King’s order
that prohibited
the colonists from
establishing
settlements west
of the
Appalachian
Mountains.
EARLY EUROPE
German monk who
wrote 95 reasons the
Catholics Church was
corrupt, causing the
Reformation.
Martin
Luther
EARLY EUROPE
King John I of
England was
forced to sign a
charter giving
people certain
rights and limiting
his own rights
DATES
1607
In this year, the
first permanent
English settlement
in North America
was established in
Jamestown.
DATES
1620
Pilgrims
establish
Plymouth Rock
DATES
The Treaty that
officially ended
the French and
Indian war.
Treaty of Paris
1763
DATES
The Treaty
that officially
ended the
French and
Indian war.
Declaration of
Independence
1776
DATES
Colonists fight
for
independence
from England.
American
Revolutionary
War
1775-1781
DATES
This was the year that
the U.S. Constitution
was accepted as the
official plan for our
nations government.
1787
DATES
1803
The United States
buys the Louisiana
Territory for $15
million from
France doubling
the size of the
nation.
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
--- William and Mary
brought about a
change of leadership
in England by
overthrowing King
James II
DATES
THE CIVIL WAR
Also known as the
War Between the
States, the United
States was divided
over the issues of
states rights , trade
and tariffs, and
slavery.
1861-1865
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
An agreement that
William and Mary
had to sign before
taking the throne, to
respect the rights of
the English people.
English Bill
of Rights
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
An intellectual
movement stressing
science and reasonappealed to mostly
wealthy.
Enlightenment
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Ben Franklin
A well known
“Enlightenment”
thinker who had
an idea to unite
the colonies.
Known for creating
the Albany Plan of
Union
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
The 1st formal
proposal to unite
the colonies.
(Ben Franklin’s idea)
The Albany Plan
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
John Locke
Enlightenment
thinker argued that
people have natural
rights.
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
The Great
Awakening
Emotional religious
conversions from a
state of sin to a "new
birth" given through
dramatic and
powerful preaching.
It was a new effort to
reach out to Native
Americans and AfricanAmericans.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Lexington/Concord
April 1775
The 1st battle of the
American Revolution
before the Declaration
of Independence was
created.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
He warned the
colonists at the
start of the
Revolutionary War
that “the British
are coming”.
Paul Revere
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The British were going to
arrest Sam Adams and
John Hancock;
It was the “shot heard
around the world.”
Lexington,
Massachusetts
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Concord,
Massachusetts
The British were
going to Concord to
destroy supplies at
the arsenal.
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Sons of Liberty
A secret society
of colonists who
wanted freedom
from Britain .
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense
“ These are the times
that try men’s soul.”
A
revolutionary
pamphlet
written in 1776
by Thomas
Paine
supporting
American
Independence.
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Patrick Henry
“Give me liberty
or give me
death.”
One of the most
famous of the
Sons of Liberty.
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Thomas Jefferson
The 3rd President of
the United States
He wrote the
Declaration of
Independence
&
purchased the
Louisiana Territory
from France.
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
George
Washington
The 1st President
of the United
States
He was the
Commander of
the Continental
Army
PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Samuel
Adams
Leader of the Sons
of Liberty and also
helped plan the
Boston Tea Party.
GOVERNMENT
The first
Constitution of the
United States which
specified how the
Federal government
was to operate.
Articles of
Confederation
GOVERNMENT
A plan for the orderly
expansion of the
United States
(How to become a
territory, a state.)
NORTHWEST
ORDINANCE
THE CONSTITUTION
PREAMBLE
We the people,
In order to form a more
perfect union,
Establish justice, insure
domestic tranquility,
Provide for the
common defense,
Promote the general
welfare and
Secure the blessings of
liberty
To ourselves and our
posterity
Do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the
United States of
America.
Introduction to the
Constitution –
It tells what the
founding fathers set
out to do.
THE CONSTITUTION
THE MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS
ARE:
The House of
Representatives
– based on population
of the state represented
The Senate – 2
Congress
senators from each
state/equality.
THE CONSTITUTION
Branch of
government that
makes the laws ---LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Otherwise known as
CONGRESS
THE CONSTITUTION
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Branch of
government that
carries out the laws---
The President
and Cabinet
THE CONSTITUTION
JUDICIAL BRANCH
Branch of
government
interprets the laws
*******
The Supreme
Court
THE CONSTITUTION
CHECKS AND
BALANCES
The ability of each
branch of
government to
limit the power of
the other two.
THE CONSTITUTION
BILL OF
RIGHTS
The 1st Ten
Amendments to the
Constitution that
guarantee every
citizen certain
fundamental rights
that the government
should NOT be able
to take away.
GOVERNMENT
REPUBLIC
A representative
democracy –
You elect people
to represent you
in government.
CIVIL WAR
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
President of the
United States
during the Civil War.
CIVIL WAR
At the time of the
Civil War, the South
believed the States
had more power than
the Federal
Government.
STATES RIGHTS
CIVIL WAR
Statement made by
President Abraham
Lincoln that freed
the slaves in the
Confederate States.
EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
CIVIL WAR
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
The bloodiest
battle of the Civil
War and was
fought over 3
days.
JULY 1-3, 1863
CIVIL WAR
BATTLE OF VICKSBURG
Gave the North
complete control over
the Mississippi River
thus cutting the South
in two.
CIVIL WAR
ANTIETAM
(Battle at Sharpsburg)
The bloodiest day
in American
History
– 51,112 casualties
September 17, 1862
CIVIL WAR
Ft. Sumter
The Confederate
forces fire the first
shot of the Civil War
upon Union forces at
Ft. Sumter, South
Carolina.
April 12-13, 1861
CIVIL WAR
CONFEDERATE STATES
OF AMERICA
(The Southern States)
The name given to the
11 states that
withdrew from the
Union and formed
their own nation.
CIVIL WAR
The Union
(Northern States)
The name given to the
20 free states and 5
border states that
remained and gave
support to the federal
government.