Thursday, February 25, 2010

Civil War Part 6 Review

Civil War Part 6 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition. Where it says from a certain number that tells you what number it is from in your notebook.

What did Union do when came across African Americans early in the war: Put them to work or freed

What is Emancipation Proclamation?: The Emancipation Proclamation was Lincolns plan to free all slaves but he needed victory in battle to guarantee support, After the victory of Antietam freed states in rebellion states but not border states or ones under Union control. Hoped southern states would surrender before went into affect

Why does Lincoln issue proclamation? To free all slaves

What effect does proclamation have? Made African Americans eager to join the war

How African Americans participated in the war: they were assigned menial task, longest guard duty, placed in exposed positions, and took time to get equal pay

Describe Life in North during War:

Describe Life in South During War:

Describe Life of Soldiers during the War:

Describe Life of Women during the War

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Exit Ticket

3 things i learned today were:
1st - That General Lee officially surrendered on April 9, 1865 but took until June to get other scattered forces to surrender.
2nd - That John Wilkes Booth was killed during a manhunt and the people who were in the conspiracy were caught and hung.
3rd - That the killing Abraham Lincoln was a conspiracy and John Wilkes Booth was the only one to kill his man.

Civil War Part 5 Review

Civil War Part 5 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

What two strategies does Grant use to win the war? Defeat Lee wherever he may be, Commit a strategy of total war

Describe how Grant takes it to Lee: He took control of Western Army himself and fought several brutal battle with Lee including the Wilderness Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor

Describe Sherman’s March to the Sea: Confeds could not stop Sherman who looted, pillaged, and set fire to everything in his path including burning Atlanta before marching to Savannah

Describe the Battle of Petersburg: Grant pushed Lee to Petersburg which is 20 miles south of Richmond, if Grant took over he could cut off rail access to Richmond; Grant employs siege strategy at Petersburg and after several weeks of fighting Lee ordered retreat of Petersburg; left Richmond defenseless, was evacuated, and later burned by Union Army

Describe Lee’s surrender: On April 9, 1865 Lee officially surrendered, but takes till June to get other scattered forces to surrender

Describe the death of Lincoln: Was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth during a play at the Ford’s Theater in DC, Booth was killed in a manhunt and his other conspirators were caught and hung
Witness History

Why did the future look so bleak to Confederate soldiers returning home after the war?
-Because they knew when they returned home they would be welcomed home by burnt homes and poverty and they thought the south wouldn’t be able to recover from the condition that the war left them in

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Civil War Part 4 Review

Describe why Lee makes the move to Gettysburg: Lee sensed he had an opportunity to win international support, demoralize the Union, and perhaps win the war

Describe Gettysburg Day1: Lee’s men run into Fed Cavalry, Feds call for support; Confeds push Union down hill, through town and up onto a set of ridges and hills to the South of town; Confeds stop advance with nightfall allowing Meade to bring up reinforcements on Cemetery Ridge, Big Round Top, and Little Round Top

Describe Gettysburg Day 2: Lee orders Longstreet to attack from South end of battle line; He is

Describe Gettysburg Day 3:

Describe the Gettysburg Address:

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Mexican American War Review

Mexican American War Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Why was there tension between Mexicans and the American settlers to Texas? Settlers protested and continued to use slavery then in 1835 Texas rebels against Mexican rule a year later they are declared independent and adopt a new constitution

Describe the Battle of the Alamo and why it was fought? To get rid of rebellion Santa Ana attacks a small fort called The Alamo, he eventually overtakes the fort and kills all that were left behind, they expected this to make Texans surrender but instead it became a rally cry

Describe Sam Houston’s defeat of Santa Ana: Texas defeats Santa Ana at battle of San Jacinto and captures Santa Ana they then force him to sign a treaty that gave them more land then traditional boundaries, Mexico refuse to sign treaty and this starts a border war for the next decade

Describe the US’s annexation of Texas: Congress annexes Texas as a slave state because Polk said he could get all of Oregon

Describe how Polk provokes the Mexican’s into war: he endorses Texas claim of all territory surrendered by Santa Ana inflaming border war

Describe the Military aspects of the Mexican American War: Zach Taylor and Winfield Scott achieve great success with other famous officers. They won every battle seizing New Mexico, California, Monterrey Mexico port, Veracruz and Mexico City

Describe what the US gets from the Treaty ending the Mexican American War: the U.S. ends up having the Texas border at Rio Grande, California, and New Mexico

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Witness History 22

What was unusual about Andrew Jackson's Inaugeration? Why might Jackson have been called the peoples president?
- It was unusual because ladies were fainting and men were seen with bloody noses; he was the peoples president because he was an everyday guy and he wasnt rich or anything like that

Witness History 21

What is Grinke's main argument in support of women's rights?
- That men women were created equal

Age of Jackson Review

Age of Jackson Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe Jackson’s push and winning of the presidency: After his loss in election of 1824, Jackson became a strong critic of John Quincy Adams where he pushed an aggressive program of federal spending for improvements and science; by mid 1820’s he established himself as a symbol for democracy by projecting himself as a down to earth man

Describe the Indian Removal Act: in 1830 Congress passed Indian Removal Act which peacefully got Indians to trade their land in the south for land in the west, several tribes agreed and other several didn’t which caused the trail of tears

Describe the Bank Crisis: Congress passed a charter for the second bank of the U.S. in 1816, Jackson and his supporters opposed it because they saw it was being corrupt seeing that it favored the rich; In 1832 Congress voted to renew charter but Jackson vetoed it saying that it was unauthorized by the Constitution

Describe the reaction to Jackson’s policies: Bank supporters denounced Jackson and formed new political party known as Whigs, they challenged Jackson’s democrats on all levels. Jackson was reelected in a landslide and when he was elected he weakened the Federal Bank by withdrawing Federal funds

Monday, February 8, 2010

Web Quest Unit 2

Birth of a Nation Webquest Words

1. Articles of Confederation – was the first constitution of the U.S.
2. Shay’s Rebellion – An uprising in central Massachusetts led by Daniel Shay many of Daniel’s followers were poor farmers
3. Great Compromise - was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Philadelphia Convention
4. Federalism – A political concept in which a group of people are bound together
5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise - a compromise in which each enslaved person would be counted as 3/5 of a person for the purpose of legislative representation.
6. Whiskey Rebellion - 1794 uprising in western Pennsylvania that opposed to federal tax on whiskey
7. Little Turtle - Was a chief of a Miami tribe in what is today Indiana and one of the most successful Native American.
8. Alien and Sedition Acts - 1798 acts that allowed the gov. to send immigrants back to their country if they talked bad about government.
9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787 - law in which provided a basis for governing the north west territory
10. Louisiana Purchase - 1803 purchase from France by the U.S
11.Monroe Doctrine - foreign policy set forth by president Monroe in 1823
12.impressments - policy of seizing people or poverty for military and public services
13.Star Spangled Banner - poem written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 that became national anthem.
14. Eerie Canal - canal completed in 1825 that connected Lake Erie to Hudson River.
15. Samuel Slater - was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
16.Eli Whitney - He invented the cotton gin in the U.S. by stealing the idea from England.
17. Horace Mann - the largest national multilane insurance company serving America's educators and their families.
18.Temperance Movement - movement that wanted to stop alcohol abuse, because it was causing a lot of problems.
18. Temperance Movement - movement aimed at stopping alcohol abused and problems created by it.
19. Seneca Falls Convention - held in NY in 1848 the first women’s right conventions in the U.S.
20. Indian Removal Act - act passed by congress in 1830 that allowed federal government to negotiate land trades with Indians in the South West.
21. Alamo - fortified former mission in San Antonio was the site of 1836 defeat of Texans by Mexicans troops.
22. Frederick Douglas - born into slavery and is best known for his role in bringing the harsh realities of slavery to the attention of white Americans
23. William Lloyd Garrison - known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society
24. Missouri Compromise - 1820 agreement calling for Missouri as a slave state
25. Nullification Crisis - concept in which state could nullify or void any federal paper.
26. Wilmot Proviso - proposed but rejected ,1846 bill that would have banned slavery
27. Compromise of 1850 - political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state.
28. Underground Railroad - was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to Free states and Canada.
29. Harriet Beecher Stowe - was an American abolitionist and author of abolitionist books.
30. Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854 law that divided The Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska giving each state the right to choose if they would be for or against slavery
31. John Brown - was an American abolitionist
32. Nat Turner - was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 deaths
33. Dred Scott - was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully in St. Louis, Missouri for his freedom in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857
34. Jefferson Davis - was an American military officer, statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
35. Robert E Lee - Confederate general
36. Anaconda Plan Northern civil war strategy to starve the south by blockading the seaports and controlling the Mississippi river
37. border state - During the civil war were the states that allowed slavery but remained in the Union.
38. Stonewall Jackson - Was an confederate general during civil war
39. George McClellan - was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac.
40. Ulysses S Grant - served as the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877
41. Antietam - First major battle in the Civil War to take place on Northern soil, bloodiest single day in American History
42. Gettysburg - battle with the largest amount of casualties in the Civil War and is considered as the wars turning point
43. Vicksburg - Confederate Stronghold on the Mississippi river that surrounded to Union Forces
44. Emancipation Proclamation - decree by president Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in free states
45. conscription - drafting of citizens into military services
46. total war - when civilians begin to fight along with soldiers
47. William Sherman - was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the civil war
48. John Wilkes Booth - Actor who killed Abraham Lincoln

Reform Movement Review

Reform Movement Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe the expansionist movement: Mexico became independent from Spain and America saw this as a chance to take land such as Texas, New Mexico, and California

Describe Manifest Destiny and what people used it to justify: it was a term used to describe how America was supposed to own all of North America and with this movement Americans begin moving to west and expanding America

Describe the Temperance Movement: During the expansion more crime, and poverty started happening and people blamed alcohol and temperance means drinking in moderation which some didn’t want and some wanted prohibition

Describe the Abolition Movement: in the early 1800’s the cotton industry grew as well as slavery, and then many people started speaking out against it on moral grounds

Describe the Education Reform Movement: There weren’t public schools in colonial times so many did not go to school, Reformers wanted to change this and start a school system from tax money, Horace Mann started school board in Massachusetts

Describe the Reform Movement for Women’s rights including the Seneca Falls Conference: Women could only speak out privately to their husbands; this started to change after women started taking roles in abolitionists and religion movements; in Seneca Falls Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others organized first woman’s rights convention, there they adopted a Declaration of Sentiments on woman’s rights

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Ticket to Leave

A current event is how we recently got a black President and i think this will be looked at in the future with honor because its our first black president and 30 years ago this was considered untolerable and I think this is a good think because its a great step up from where we were years ago

Witness History 19

Why did the British target Washington D.C.?
- I think they targeted Washington D.C. because it was the capital and if they destroy the Capital of a country it would eventually ruin the country

War of 1812 Review

War of 1812 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

How does the US become involved in the war between GB and the French? The US participated in re-export trade by picking up goods in West Indies, taking them back to US then shipping them to France to circumvent British Shipping Restrictions; British also took US sailors from their ships and forced them to work in the British Navy

Impressments- When British soldiers were taking American soldiers and making them work for the British Navy

What initial action does Jefferson take in war between GB and France to protect the US? He persuades Congress to declare and embargo or suspending trade by ordering ships to stay in port

Describe the Congressional Action that pushes the US to war: Congress passes bill meant to continue trade with Great Britain and France, but also pledges that if either recognized US neutrality, US would resume trading sanctions with others

What does Madison ask Congress to do? To declare war on Great Britain

Describe the initial actions of the US in the War of 1812: they attempted to invade Canada and failed due to their lack of training

Describe US action along fronts other than the Canadian: The US Navy did well and captured several British ships, and US defeated British supported Indians within its own territory including a group led by Andrew Jackson that pushed into Florida

What happens in the War when GB’s war with Napoleon ends? When the war with France ended then thousands of British soldiers were free to fight in North America

Describe the end of the war including the writing of the star spangled banner: America fought better on defense which caused them to defeat Britain everywhere except Maine; British captured the Capital and burned The White House and Capital for an arson in Canada but were defeated when they went to Baltimore, this is where Scott Keys wrote the Star Spangled Banner


What battle makes Jackson a hero? The Battle of New Orleans

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Territorial Expansion Review

Territorial Expansion Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe the Northwest Ordinance: It provided a government for the western territories based on Jefferson’s ideas

Describe Jefferson’s plan to expand the US: To get more land Jefferson wanted to expand Pacific even though colonists and Indians were already there; they thought that Spanish territory would be easy to conquer but in 1801 France took over territory, France then threatened to block New Orleans

Describe the Louisiana Purchase: After France conquered Spanish territory Jefferson reasoned with Napoleon and with other problems in the Caribbean, Napoleon agrees and sells territories

Describe the Lewis and Clark Expedition: Jefferson sends Lewis and Clark to explore the territory, they were guided by an Indian woman named Sacagawea

Describe the Monroe Doctrine: Foreign policy doctrine formulated saying Europe should not become involved in Latin American affairs; this became more important in the 1800’s and 1900’s

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Chart of The Three Branches of Government

Legislative
Congress
Make Laws
- House of Representatives(435 Members)
o 2 year terms
o At least 25 years of age
o House of Representatives can raise revenue
o House of Representatives have the sole power of impeachment
- Senate(100 Members)
o 6 year terms
o At least 30 years of age
o Approves all appointments
o Approve foreign treaties
o Power to try impeachments
- Both Together
o Congress has power to make laws
o Congress can declare war
o Congress can override a presidents veto
o Congress can propose laws
Executive
Vice President, Vice President, Cabinet
Enforces Laws
- 4 year terms
- At least 35 years of age
- President vetoes or approves laws
- President makes treaties
- President can nominate judges to Supreme Court