https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i Group members: Heredia Silvina and Murúa Agostina en-us 2023-06-23 21:37:08 UTC 2025-11-17 22:51:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1fa-1f1f8.png muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631237188 The British Crown recognizes the independence of North America and grants the U.S most of the territories located East of the Mississippi River.]]> 2023-06-23 21:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631237188 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631237475 2023-06-23 21:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631237475 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631472298 Law passsed to respect Native Americans' lands]]> 2023-06-24 15:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631472298 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631473092 It gave new rigths to citizens]]> 2023-06-24 15:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631473092 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631473698 Napoleon needed money to pay for the war so he sold the lands of Louisiana to the United States, this was authorized by the president Thomas Jefferson.]]> 2023-06-24 15:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631473698 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631474953 - First expedition led by Lewis and Clark
- Far countries like Russia, Britain and Spain claimed to own Oregon as well as the US]]> 2023-06-24 15:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631474953 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631475757 - Britain and France were at war and this interfered with American trades.
- The Congress declared war on Britain.
- The US attempted to invade Canada but failed.]]> 2023-06-24 15:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631475757 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631476606 Slavery would be allowed in Missouri and Arkansas but banned in lands to the west and north of Missouri.]]> 2023-06-24 15:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631476606 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631477325 The law forced Native Americans to leave their homeland in the Southeast of the Mississippi River and live in "Indian Territory" known as Reservoirs.]]> 2023-06-24 15:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631477325 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631477950 Cherokee People were driven west of the country. The Cherokee nation faced hunger, disease and exhaustion. A quarter of the Cherokee nation died because of this.]]> 2023-06-24 15:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631477950 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631479290 After losing the Mexican-American war ( 1846-1848), Mexico ceded to the US the territories of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. ]]> 2023-06-24 15:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631479290 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631480912 From 1840 to 1850 people crossed the Great Plains in order to reach Oregon and the gold mines of California. This was the beginning of people travelling to enter the gold-mining business in California, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and the Dakota Country.]]> 2023-06-24 15:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631480912 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631481886 This act demanded that slaves were returned to their owners (even if they were found in free states). The law also applied to people helping the slaves by providing food or shelter. They were subject to imprisonment and fines. This caused anger in the northern states.]]> 2023-06-24 15:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631481886 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631483301 The Native American people agreed to "donate" lands to the government in return of them leaving the Native American in peace (which didn't happen).
- 1851 the Pawnee sign Nebraska
- 1858 the Dakota gave a part of South Dakota Country
- 1860 the Comanche and Kiowa gave up Kansas, Colorado and Texas]]> 2023-06-24 15:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631483301 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631483775 Abraham Lincoln opposed slavery and he was chosen as a candidate for the Republican Party. He then was elected President.]]> 2023-06-24 15:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631483775 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631484555 11 states from the South seceded from the US formed an independent nation: Confederate States of America (or The Confederacy)]]> 2023-06-24 15:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631484555 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631508869 The tension between northeners and southerners because of slavery was adding up and it ended in the break ou of the Civil War. The Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter (South Carolina) which was occupied by the Union's troops.]]> 2023-06-24 17:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631508869 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631509182 Issued by Abraham Lincoln, it finally made the slaves from the Confederation free.]]> 2023-06-24 17:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631509182 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631509935 The government issued an Act where it would give public land for free to those families and settlers who laboured it and settled there for five years. It also gave them the option to buy it for a very cheap price after six months. 
These lands were unfarmable.]]> 2023-06-24 17:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631509935 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631510408 At Appomattox the Confederates surrender to the Union, ending the Civil War.]]> 2023-06-24 17:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631510408 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631511022 The Congress passed the Civil Rights Act and introduced the 14th Amendment to the Constitution - This gave Black people full rights of citizenship, including the right to vote.]]> 2023-06-24 17:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631511022 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631511362 The government declared that large areas within the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains belonged to the Dakota People.]]> 2023-06-24 17:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631511362 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631512143 Union Pacific Railroad Company built the road west from the Mississippi towards the Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroad Company built eastwards from California, both sponsored by the government.]]> 2023-06-24 18:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631512143 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631512802 The government wanted the gold that was found in the Black Hills, which was a sacred place to the Dakota People, and wanted to buy the lands. The Dakota refused so the government broke the treaty and forced them out of the Black Hills and moved them to resrvations.]]> 2023-06-24 18:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631512802 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631514618 The Reconstruction government was made up of blacks, whites, southerners and notherners. The southerners still opposed to give black people same rights. 
Ku Klux Klan (a group of people who hated the black) was formed.
Reconstruction was over.]]> 2023-06-24 18:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631514618 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631515345 With the discovery of raw materials such as carbon and iron, the new era of inventors and manufacturers began in the US. Productivity increased and the US became a major provider of industrial production. 
Famous inventors of the era:
- Andrew Carnagie: invested in iron, he controlled companies in charge of construction of bridges, railroads and locomotives
- Thomas Edinson: Formed the Edison Electric Light Company
- Henry Ford: created the standarization in the automobile industry and added the moving assembly line, changing the way manufacturers work forever.]]> 2023-06-24 18:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631515345 muruaagostina2 https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631516507 Each state was given a "quota" of immigrants per year according to the number of people from that place who were already living in the U.S.]]> 2023-06-24 18:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/muruaagostina2/7g68zfh4rf1s3i9i/wish/2631516507