USA history

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Lesson goals

At the end of this lesson you know about the 

general history of the USA 

USA History

USA

COLONIAL AMERICA

16th and 17th century

Colonial music

New York Yankees

Plymouth

Pilgrims -

Native Americans

Thanksgiving

American Revolution

Declaration of independece 

(1776)

4th of July

SLAVERY AND CIVIL WAR

1861 - 1865

South

Confederates

Pro slavery

North

Union

Anti slavery

Abraham Lincoln

Ended Slavery

Murdered 

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

20TH CENTURY

Small houses

Dirty

Many people 

in the city

ROARING 20'S

1920's

Charlston music

Electricity - new inventions!

Creditcards

Debts: Stock market crash

Prohibition (speakeasies)

Flapper girls 

Civil Rights

Seperate but Equal

Rosa Parks

MLK

1960

1970's

Hippies

Peace and love

Jimi Hendrix

WAR ON TERRORISM

21st century

Now: video

take notes

Qs afterwards

What happened in 1620 on Plymyth Rock?

1. Christopher Columbus discovered America
2. The first Thanksgiving
3. The Cicil war
4. The Pilgrims came to America

Who was the first president of the USA?

1. Barack Obama
2. George Washington
3. Joh F. Kennedy
4. G. W. Bush

Which was not a reason to go to America in the settler's time?

1. adventure
2. opportunity (more land)
3. looked better on TV
4. fleeing persecution (religious)

What was the civil war about?

1. slavery
2. the constitution
3. land and power
4. economy

When America declared war on Japan in 1941, they also helped in Europe. Why did they declare war on Japan?

1. Japan claimed part of the American land
2. Japan attacked their friends in Canada
3. Japan had more money than America
4. Japan attacked Pearl Harbour

On 9/11 Al Queda attacked:

1. The Twin Towers & the Pentagon
2. The Twin Towers & the Whitehouse
3. Trump Tower & The Whitehouse
4. Disney World & the Statue of Liberty

Next up: toggle question

Let's see if you can put together the event and 

the year in which it happened. 

The Pilgrims are at Plymouth Rock

9/11

The great depresssion

Women are allowed to vote

President Kennedy murdered

Declaration of independance

Death of Martin Luther King

1620

1776

1920

1929

1963

1986

2001

MODERN AMERICA

music

food

sports

Now: video about modern American culture