US History
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- who is the current president of the US?
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George W. Bush jr.
- Who was the first president of the US? Second? Third?
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George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
- Eastern Woodland Lifestyle
- Forested, deerskin clothes tanned by women
- Largest Fresh Water Lakes Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Food from Rivers and Seas
- Plateau
- Region - limited food and water
- southwest
- How Southwest adapted to desert
- nomadic life, adobe houses, corn bean and squash
- Dependent on Buffalo REGION
- Great Plains
- Southeast Homes
- rectangular - trees woven with clay
- Christopher Columbus
- founded a new world led to many voyages and sparked interest of European explorers
- Pocahontas
- daughter of Powhatan who saved John Smith
- Lawmakers of colinies
- Charter given by the king, elected an assemly and/or a governor
- Quakers
- settled the Middle Colonies
- African Slaves
- replaced indentured servants in the colonies because labor was longer + they worked all day
- Blue laws
- Puritan laws in bluebound books
- How colonists lived
- One room house with small fire, sometimes added another room for child
- Social ladder
- Divided into wealthy, middle, and lower class - clothing differed and marrying & wealth can change rank
- Bill of Rights
- stated the rights of the Europeans and those were the rights king could not take away
- Africans -> America
- slave trade, forced to come by slave owners
- Leisure time activities
- jack, stoolball, backgammon
- Clothing
- defined social class
- Women of colonies
- did cooking, cleaning, had no say in the government