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1492
Old and new world foods combined
many foods that we eat today are combinations of foods from the old and new world. -
Aug 3, 1492
Columbus Landing in america
Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492 leading to the discovery of the new world which started trading materials from the new world to the old. (wikipedia) -
Colonization
The British, French, and Spanish were all attempting to colonize the new world and the British eventually created a successful colony named James town which definatly had a rocky start it ended up working out and lasting -
Colonization food
the main food eaten by settlers in jamestown was corn because it could be made into so many things -
Boston Massacre
Patriots were rebelling in the streets of Boston and red coats are trying to stop them though given orders not to shoot one does anyway and then everyone does and they kill 5 people -
Boston tea party
the British taxed tea, a highly consumed food, and the patriots rebelled and thew all the taxed tea into the Boston harbor. -
food in the revolution
The poor often ate corn porridge and salted meats. -
Treaty of Paris
At the end of the French and Indian war it was signed that natives got the land to the west but if they left it went to england -
Manifest Destiny
Westward expansion was when the colonies decided to expand instead of staying in one spot but they had to really work to get the grants to go and most died on the way but those that didn't eventually discovered the east coast and lead to the sucess of the U.S -
food people ate during westward expansion
Beans and rice, dried meat and salted bacon, dried fruit, hardtack or crackers were all foods eaten by the people in wagons -
Foods served on the railroad
Soup, fish, roast mutton and currant jelly, vegetables. Tea. Hot light bread, cold bread, stewed fruit. Breakfast., Hot bread, a nice hash, fried potatoes. -
Iron Horse
The railroad revolutionized travel and it made traveling cheaper easier safer and faster. it changed wagon travel time which was 20-40 miles a day to 45 miles per hour. -
Minié ball
The minié ball was a large contributor to the modernization of warfare in the civil war which was much easier to load and fire which caused more causualtys -
Slavery
Slavery was a large business in America in the early-mid 1800s which was enlarged by the creation of the cotton gin in 1793 and was eventually rebelled on with the underground railroad was at its largest and eventually, slavery was abolished in 1865. -
Rations for slaves
Cornmeal, some meats,flour and some veggtibles -
Cornmeal Hash
This was a gross ration that was given to soldiers also know as confederate cush -
Bully beef
soldiers in WW1 had to eat gross meat because meat was low and on the front lines they got even less -
Christmas Truce
On Christmas day WW1 soldiers stopped the fighting for a day to celebrate christmas -
Hiroshima
The first atomic bomb dropped was to end the war with Japan and completely end WW2 -
Belin Airlift
Britan launched plains over Berlin when Russia took it over and dropped supplies for the people who weren't on the good side of Berlin.
