US History 1600s - Civil War

Hi everyone! In my first blog post I will be writing about the US History (1600s - Civil War).  The start of America began in 1607 in Jamestown, VA which was where the first permanent settlement was. As years pass we come to the Pilgrims arriving in the Americas in a ship called the Mayflower and then 6 years later they established the first 13 colonies! These colonies including, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. As the population spiked in the 1700s from 275,000 to 1.6 million, they were in search for more land, and they got it! They got the Northwest Ordinance (which is Ohio), Louisiana Purchase (which included most of the land west of the Mississippi River), the Missouri Compromise (Missouri was created practically for slaves. smh), the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (which got California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming) and lastly the Gadsden Purchase (which got the rest of Arizona and New Mexico). With this new land the US expanded and so did the population! (now at 4 million!!) But with these wins, there came challenges. After the Articles of Confederation was created, they had to have a Constitutional Convention to revise and start from scratch. The importation of slaves were banned, and the Compromise of 1850 began (which practically said the California and Washington D.C. are free states, and that they do NOT ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico). Before the Civil War, the US stayed united by compromise, if they received a complaint then they would compromise either new land or new laws.

    <<< this is a picture of one of the pages from the timeline activity!!!

Thanks for reading!!

xoxo Ellie