Kennis van land en volk:
The New World
1492: Christopher Columbus
Aim: find shorter trade route
Los Indios – Indians
– Native Americans – Amerindians
Pueblo, Apache, Iroquois, Sioux, Dakota, Cherokee
Farmers, nomads, fierce, warlike
Potlatches (gift giving)
Indian Affairs:
Sitting Bull – Sioux
1881:‘ I wish it to be
remembered that I was
the last man of my tribe
to surrender my rifle’
Ghost Dance Movement
(1890)
Wounded Knee (1890)
1924: Indians were given
right to vote
Puritan New England
Pilgrim fathers (1620)
Mayflower
Thanksgiving:
Fourth Thursday in November
‘Thank God for surviving first
year’
Celebrate together with Indians
First States
New Hampshire
Massachusettes
New York
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
The Stars and Stripes
Independence
Thomas Jefferson
(landowner and lawyer)
4 July 1776
Declaration of Independence
The United States of America
George Washington
1788: First President
of USA
1789: Constitution
went into effect
Amendments
1791: Bill of Rights
(freedom of religion, free
speech, free press, right to
a fair trial)
2nd amendment:
13th amendment:
Abraham Lincoln
President
1861-1865
Civil War
Assassination 1865
John Wilkes Booth
Federal Government: branches
Congress:
-2 Senators per state, 6 years (term)
Congress II:
House of Representatives:
435 members. Elected
every two years
Every state represented
Capitol Building
Washington D.C.
Presidents:
President
Elected every 4 years
Republicans / Democrats
Voters!
Swing states
Two terms
‘ Kiesmannen’
270 / 538
Other Presidents:
Rooseveldt: New Deal
(1929: Wall Street crash)
MacCarthy 1950s: Witch
Hunts
Kennedy 1963:
assassination
Nixon 1974: Watergate
Statue of Liberty
“Give me your tired, your
poor, Your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free, The
wretched refuse of your teeming
shore. Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tossed to me, I lift my
lamp beside the golden door!"
The Golden Door
1840-1860: poor crops,
hunger, political unrest
Irish: potato famine
During civil war: many
immigrants
Melting Pot
Ellis Island
Black Americans
Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks 1955
Martin Luther King 1968
KKK
AAVE (African American
Vernacular English)
The Anthem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK7xF1RGCQY&feature=fvwrel