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Kennis van land en volk:

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 ).

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Kennis van land en volk:

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  1. Kennis van land en volk:

  2. The New World • 1492: Christopher Columbus • Aim: findshortertrade route • Los Indios – Indians • – NativeAmericans – Amerindians • Pueblo, Apache, Iroquois, Sioux, Dakota, Cherokee • Farmers, nomads, fierce, warlike • Potlatches (gift giving)

  3. Indian Affairs: • Sitting Bull – Sioux • 1881:‘ I wishit to berememberedthat I was the last man of mytribe to surrendermyrifle’ • GhostDanceMovement (1890) • WoundedKnee (1890) • 1924: Indiansweregiven right to vote

  4. Puritan New England • Pilgrim fathers (1620) • Mayflower • Thanksgiving: FourthThursday in November ‘Thank God forsurvivingfirstyear’ CelebratetogetherwithIndians

  5. First States New Hampshire Massachusettes New York RhodeIsland Connecticut Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia

  6. The Stars and Stripes

  7. Independence • Thomas Jefferson (landowner and lawyer) • 4 July 1776 • Declaration ofIndependence • The United States of America

  8. George Washington 1788: First President of USA 1789: Constitution went into effect

  9. Amendments • 1791: Bill of Rights (freedom of religion, free speech, free press, right to a fair trial) • 2nd amendment: 13th amendment:

  10. Abraham Lincoln • President • 1861-1865 • Civil War • Assassination 1865 • John Wilkes Booth

  11. FederalGovernment: branches

  12. Congress: • 2 Senators per state, 6years(term)

  13. Congress II: • House of Representatives: 435 members. Electedeverytwoyears • Every state represented • Capitol Building • Washington D.C.

  14. Presidents:

  15. President • Electedevery 4 years • Voters! • Twoterms • ‘ Kiesmannen’ • 270 / 538 • Republicans / Democrats • Swing states

  16. OtherPresidents: • Rooseveldt: New Deal (1929: Wall Street crash) • MacCarthy 1950s: WitchHunts • Kennedy 1963: assassination • Nixon 1974: Watergate

  17. Statue of Liberty • “Give me yourtired, yourpoor,
Yourhuddledmassesyearning to breathe free,
The wretchedrefuse of yourteemingshore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

  18. The Golden Door • 1840-1860: poorcrops, hunger, politicalunrest • Irish: potatofamine • Duringcivil war: manyimmigrants • Melting Pot • EllisIsland

  19. Black Americans • CivilRightsMovement • Rosa Parks 1955 • Martin Luther King 1968 • KKK • AAVE (African American VernacularEnglish)

  20. The Anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK7xF1RGCQY&feature=fvwrel

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