Week 2.3 USA history

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 1,2

What did we do last week?

Today's plan

• BBC Newsround
  
• Lesson: history of the USA part 1
  
• Reading: New York
  
• Time to work
  

What do you know about the history of the USA?

What's coming up

• Early history
• Civil war
• Native americans
• Government, voting and culture

Early history

• First colonies in the late 15th century
• 1760s - the thirteen British colonies were established
• British government imposed taxes
• Boston tea party.

1776

• Independence of the colonies as the United States
• George Washington, the first president

Constitution and Bill of Rights

• Specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights
• limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings
• explicit declarations that all powers not specifically granted to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the states or the people

The ten Amendments

1. Your teachers gives you one Amendment;
2. Look up what this Amendment means;
3. Write the most important information down in your notebook. Explain how it could influence today's society.
4. Share your amendment with the group 

Time to work

•  Work in pairs for All Right 2.3 - 
• Year 1: opdracht 2 3 6 7B 7C 10A
• Year 2: opdracht 2 4 6 7 10 11
• Project Promote: devide tasks/research

The 13 colonies