9. To stop east germans from fleeing to the west.
10. They were communists, they closed it off until the soviets removed the mistels from Cuba.
11. Allowed him to use American forces in Vietnam.
12. Herbicide they spray to clear out forests and tall grasses in Vietnam, but it was believed to have contaminated many Americans and Vietnamese causing serious health problems.
13. The north Vietnamese and Vietcong attacks on south Vietnam that took place on the Vietnamese new years Tet.
14. there was no direct attack on American soil, the generation gap the new generation didn't believe in fighting the war like the old one did, we weren't winning, it cost us a lot of money, people were being forced to join the military.
15. Reasons why LBJ should or should not run:
Not run: 1. Didn't have the support of the younger generation
2. It was a good idea to put someone new in office who had a different view of approaching the war since Johnson was already losing.
3. No one trusted his decisions involving the war.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Chapter 27 & 28 Questions
9. Winston Churchill coined the phrase, it represented the Soviets taking control of east Europe, the "curtain" divided the west from the east.
11. The cold war is a war that where is is actually no fighting, people just prepare their armies to intimated people, and threaten each other.
13. It gave the returning GI's from war money to go to college, buy homes, or set up businesses.
15. There was no victory, more than 54,000 Americans died in the war and another 103,000 were wounded. Nearly 2,000,000 Koreans and Chinese died. We set up a demilitarized zone where no military was allowed, and it was a direct threat to the Soviets.
16. It was a congressional committee that investigated communism in America.
Chapter 28
5. Hawaii and Alaska
9. Fidel Castro
10. That traveling by plane was a great invention, it was fast and easy, it could carry more passengers father and faster. TV also became very popular. Businesses started using computers.
14. The people who weren't affected by poverty moved to the suburbs and the people who were stayed in the city, and lead to a high level of poverty in cities.
16. Nuclear weapons were more popular, you could use them and save most of the army. After bombing Japan the US could use the bombs to threaten other countries.
17. The people needed more cars because they lived in the suburbs and they were more spread out, Therefore they needed the cars to do errands and go to the store.
11. The cold war is a war that where is is actually no fighting, people just prepare their armies to intimated people, and threaten each other.
13. It gave the returning GI's from war money to go to college, buy homes, or set up businesses.
15. There was no victory, more than 54,000 Americans died in the war and another 103,000 were wounded. Nearly 2,000,000 Koreans and Chinese died. We set up a demilitarized zone where no military was allowed, and it was a direct threat to the Soviets.
16. It was a congressional committee that investigated communism in America.
Chapter 28
5. Hawaii and Alaska
9. Fidel Castro
10. That traveling by plane was a great invention, it was fast and easy, it could carry more passengers father and faster. TV also became very popular. Businesses started using computers.
14. The people who weren't affected by poverty moved to the suburbs and the people who were stayed in the city, and lead to a high level of poverty in cities.
16. Nuclear weapons were more popular, you could use them and save most of the army. After bombing Japan the US could use the bombs to threaten other countries.
17. The people needed more cars because they lived in the suburbs and they were more spread out, Therefore they needed the cars to do errands and go to the store.
Monday, April 4, 2011
dont know much about history world war 2
1) Why did FDR want to pack the Supreme Court? Did it work? Do you think this was constitutionally correct?
· So they would be in favor the new deal so it could get passed. It didn’t work and it wasn’t really constitutionally correct.
2) What is a theory about Amelia Earhart's death? Why was she important?
· That Japanese shot her down, and there was another one that she ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean. She was the first female to cross the Atlantic, she was going to go across the world but she didn’t make it. A model of a rugged feminism.
3) What was Lend-Lease?
· America would lend tanks, warplanes, and ships that could be returned in kind after the war. He granted un presidented powers to aid any country whose defense was deemed vital to any defense.
4) Discuss the BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
· It was a 16-week air war, which caused Britain more then 900 planes and thousands of civilian lives, Germany lost 1700 aircrafts. England was about to run out of the cash it needed to keep their defense alive.
5) What were some of the reasons isolationists wanted to stay out of the war?
· They didn’t want the ammunition makers making a large profit.
6) What was the traditional definition of Fascism? Who were the Fascists of Europe in the 30s?
· A military dictatorship built on racist and power for the nationalistic foundations generally with the broad support the business class. They were people who didn’t like other governments. Hitler and Mussolini.
7) Who were the Axis Powers?
· Germany, Japan, and Italy.
8) In what year and month did Japan invade Perking?
· July, 1937.
9) What were the aggressive actions of Germany and Italy before the start of WWII?
· They marched into Austria and Hitler declared Austria re-untied with Germany. And he demanded the Sudeten land in Czechoslovakia and then they took the rest of Czechoslovakia and then he took Poland. And everywhere in Western Europe.
10) What are the two views of Pearl Harbor?
· The first was that FDR was preoccupied with the war in Europe and didn’t want war with Japan. The other one is that he wanted to be in the war and he knew about the attacks and that Japan was going to do something.
11) What does Japan cite as reasons to go to war?
· America stopped giving them oil. And America loaned money to the nationalists in china.
12) What is the date of Pearl Harbor?
· December 7th, 1941
13) What is the date of D-Day?
· June 6th, 1944
14) What was the cost of World War II?
· More than 38,000,000 people died. 22 million from Russia, 3.5 million Germans, 1.2 million Japanese a lot were soldiers, 300,000 in the united states.
15) What was the Yalta Conference?
· It was the moping up meeting between Winston Churchill, FDR, and Joseph Stalin. They met in Yalta.
16) What did Stalin demand in return for his agreement to enter the war against Japan?
· The soviets would control Manchuria and Mongolia and would be ceded half a Sakhalin Island and Kurile Islands, off northern Japan; a Soviet occupation zone would be created in Korea; and in the United Nations, a veto power would be given to the major nations, of which the Soviet Union was one, along with the United States, Great Britain, France, and China.
17) What is FDR's legacy?
· He was the indispensable man of his time, which was the Depression and WWII. The new Deal, and the first 100 days. He was a near dictator, he had a lot of power, WPA, NRA
18) Did the U.S. have to drop Atomic weapons on Japan? List the various PROs and CONs to this argument.
· Yes, If they hadn’t they would have had to invade Japan and many American lives would have been lost. It was bad because if they dropped it out of the plane and it didn’t explode then the Japanese resistance would have been a lot less.
19) How did the Cold War start?
· The idea that we have a nuclear bomb and we have it and we are not afraid to loose it, the big stick. And it was the build up of nuclear weapons on each side.
· So they would be in favor the new deal so it could get passed. It didn’t work and it wasn’t really constitutionally correct.
2) What is a theory about Amelia Earhart's death? Why was she important?
· That Japanese shot her down, and there was another one that she ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean. She was the first female to cross the Atlantic, she was going to go across the world but she didn’t make it. A model of a rugged feminism.
3) What was Lend-Lease?
· America would lend tanks, warplanes, and ships that could be returned in kind after the war. He granted un presidented powers to aid any country whose defense was deemed vital to any defense.
4) Discuss the BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
· It was a 16-week air war, which caused Britain more then 900 planes and thousands of civilian lives, Germany lost 1700 aircrafts. England was about to run out of the cash it needed to keep their defense alive.
5) What were some of the reasons isolationists wanted to stay out of the war?
· They didn’t want the ammunition makers making a large profit.
6) What was the traditional definition of Fascism? Who were the Fascists of Europe in the 30s?
· A military dictatorship built on racist and power for the nationalistic foundations generally with the broad support the business class. They were people who didn’t like other governments. Hitler and Mussolini.
7) Who were the Axis Powers?
· Germany, Japan, and Italy.
8) In what year and month did Japan invade Perking?
· July, 1937.
9) What were the aggressive actions of Germany and Italy before the start of WWII?
· They marched into Austria and Hitler declared Austria re-untied with Germany. And he demanded the Sudeten land in Czechoslovakia and then they took the rest of Czechoslovakia and then he took Poland. And everywhere in Western Europe.
10) What are the two views of Pearl Harbor?
· The first was that FDR was preoccupied with the war in Europe and didn’t want war with Japan. The other one is that he wanted to be in the war and he knew about the attacks and that Japan was going to do something.
11) What does Japan cite as reasons to go to war?
· America stopped giving them oil. And America loaned money to the nationalists in china.
12) What is the date of Pearl Harbor?
· December 7th, 1941
13) What is the date of D-Day?
· June 6th, 1944
14) What was the cost of World War II?
· More than 38,000,000 people died. 22 million from Russia, 3.5 million Germans, 1.2 million Japanese a lot were soldiers, 300,000 in the united states.
15) What was the Yalta Conference?
· It was the moping up meeting between Winston Churchill, FDR, and Joseph Stalin. They met in Yalta.
16) What did Stalin demand in return for his agreement to enter the war against Japan?
· The soviets would control Manchuria and Mongolia and would be ceded half a Sakhalin Island and Kurile Islands, off northern Japan; a Soviet occupation zone would be created in Korea; and in the United Nations, a veto power would be given to the major nations, of which the Soviet Union was one, along with the United States, Great Britain, France, and China.
17) What is FDR's legacy?
· He was the indispensable man of his time, which was the Depression and WWII. The new Deal, and the first 100 days. He was a near dictator, he had a lot of power, WPA, NRA
18) Did the U.S. have to drop Atomic weapons on Japan? List the various PROs and CONs to this argument.
· Yes, If they hadn’t they would have had to invade Japan and many American lives would have been lost. It was bad because if they dropped it out of the plane and it didn’t explode then the Japanese resistance would have been a lot less.
19) How did the Cold War start?
· The idea that we have a nuclear bomb and we have it and we are not afraid to loose it, the big stick. And it was the build up of nuclear weapons on each side.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Don't know much about history q's the great depression
1) Name five important books of the 1920s.
· Gatsby, three soldiers, main street, Babbitt, Arrow smith and Elmer gantry
2) What was the first "talkie"? How did it change America?
· The jazz singer, it was a multi million dollar production, and Hollywood became “Hollywood.”
3) Discuss the "Red Scare of 1919".
· It was the idea that anything slightly tainted by socialism was dangerous. So foreigners started being deported.
4) What was the 18th amendment? Why was it enacted? How did it go wrong?
· It prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxication liquors. It was supposed to be an answer to social instability and moral decline at the beginning of the 21st century. There were a lot of riots and organized crime skyrocketed. The invention of illegal things such as bath tub gin and moonshine were created to compensate for the decline of legal alcohol which in the end the amendment didn’t stop or end alcoholism and alcohol related deaths because if people wanted a drink they drank.
5) Who were Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul?
· Together they set up the NWSA, Susan B. Anthony was called the napoleon of women’s rights, and they were women activists. They pushed for reforms in New York and continued to urge the vote for women at the national level; they thought it was just as important as black people being able to vote.
6) What is important about Henry Ford? How did he change America?
· He revolutionized the automobile industry. He perfected the assembly line and the versions of the automobiles. He came out with the first Model T. The American dream of freedom on the open road became a reality.
7) What is important about Charles Lindbergh? How did he symbolize the times?
· He was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic. It took him 33 hours. He was a symbol of “do anything” American inventiveness.
8) What were "pool operators" and how were they crooked?
· They were schemers. They would make stock prices go up really high and then they would con someone into buying their stocks at a high price and then the stock would go way down and they would take that money and run.
9) How were stocks inflated? How did this cause the crash?
· They got inflated because every one was buying them and then they would borrow money from the brokers who would borrow money from the bank and then they wouldn’t be able to pay them back so then the banks closed which was the crash.
10) What was Black Thursday and Black Tuesday?
· On black Thursday 13 million stocks were sold and then Black Tuesday more than 16 million stocks were sold.
11) What was Hoover's view of Government relief programs?
· That they need to stay out of the problems and they need just let things work themselves out and that hope and good/happy times were around the corner.
12) What was the "Bonus Army"?
· 10,000 veterans went to Washington D.C. because they were supposed to be getting a bonus in a couple years and they wanted it now so they led a riot.
13) What happened during the "Hundred Days"?
· It was the new deal, which was FDR’s attempt to bring the economy back up by making government funded programs that employed the people in order to bring the economy back up.
14) What was the WPA and what did it do?
· Workers progress administration. It was set up for federal construction projects. It also set up artistic projects that employed thousands of musicians, writers and artists.
15) What were Roosevelt's FIRESIDE CHATS and why did they become important?
· It was where FDR did radio broadcasts about what was going on in the government and it made the people feel more secure
· Gatsby, three soldiers, main street, Babbitt, Arrow smith and Elmer gantry
2) What was the first "talkie"? How did it change America?
· The jazz singer, it was a multi million dollar production, and Hollywood became “Hollywood.”
3) Discuss the "Red Scare of 1919".
· It was the idea that anything slightly tainted by socialism was dangerous. So foreigners started being deported.
4) What was the 18th amendment? Why was it enacted? How did it go wrong?
· It prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxication liquors. It was supposed to be an answer to social instability and moral decline at the beginning of the 21st century. There were a lot of riots and organized crime skyrocketed. The invention of illegal things such as bath tub gin and moonshine were created to compensate for the decline of legal alcohol which in the end the amendment didn’t stop or end alcoholism and alcohol related deaths because if people wanted a drink they drank.
5) Who were Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul?
· Together they set up the NWSA, Susan B. Anthony was called the napoleon of women’s rights, and they were women activists. They pushed for reforms in New York and continued to urge the vote for women at the national level; they thought it was just as important as black people being able to vote.
6) What is important about Henry Ford? How did he change America?
· He revolutionized the automobile industry. He perfected the assembly line and the versions of the automobiles. He came out with the first Model T. The American dream of freedom on the open road became a reality.
7) What is important about Charles Lindbergh? How did he symbolize the times?
· He was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic. It took him 33 hours. He was a symbol of “do anything” American inventiveness.
8) What were "pool operators" and how were they crooked?
· They were schemers. They would make stock prices go up really high and then they would con someone into buying their stocks at a high price and then the stock would go way down and they would take that money and run.
9) How were stocks inflated? How did this cause the crash?
· They got inflated because every one was buying them and then they would borrow money from the brokers who would borrow money from the bank and then they wouldn’t be able to pay them back so then the banks closed which was the crash.
10) What was Black Thursday and Black Tuesday?
· On black Thursday 13 million stocks were sold and then Black Tuesday more than 16 million stocks were sold.
11) What was Hoover's view of Government relief programs?
· That they need to stay out of the problems and they need just let things work themselves out and that hope and good/happy times were around the corner.
12) What was the "Bonus Army"?
· 10,000 veterans went to Washington D.C. because they were supposed to be getting a bonus in a couple years and they wanted it now so they led a riot.
13) What happened during the "Hundred Days"?
· It was the new deal, which was FDR’s attempt to bring the economy back up by making government funded programs that employed the people in order to bring the economy back up.
14) What was the WPA and what did it do?
· Workers progress administration. It was set up for federal construction projects. It also set up artistic projects that employed thousands of musicians, writers and artists.
15) What were Roosevelt's FIRESIDE CHATS and why did they become important?
· It was where FDR did radio broadcasts about what was going on in the government and it made the people feel more secure
Friday, February 25, 2011
Journey 7-23
7. The transcontinental railroad brought many jobs to America, and the wild west. It made it easier and faster to transport goods and people. It boosted the nation's steel industry and coal industry. It also set up new towns along the railroad. It helped construction and agriculture companies flourish. It helped out ranchers and farmers a lot because they were able to transport crops and cattle.
8. The Chisholm trail led from central Texas to Abilene, Kansas.
9. There were buffalo and other game they weren't used to. It was basically unsettled so it wasn't crowded. It was nice and flat for planting crops. Free land was offered by new laws, and the railroad made it easier and cheaper to get there. There was also the promise of gold out west.
10. They were a very large group of African Americans who moved from the south to settle in Kansas, escaping former slave states.
11. It addressed the lack of rain and moisture in the midwest and western states.
12. There was a mass hunting of buffalo by white people for a few years. They did it to feed the railroad workers and so buffalo wouldn't be in the way. This led the buffalo to near extinction.
13. Oklahoma.
14. He was an Indian leader. He was a chief of the Apache. He led raids against white settlers and he kept attacking them. He escaped them multiple times. He ended up being the last chief to surrender to the whites, holding on long past his contemporaries.
15. It offered farmers education, fellowship, and support. It gave them things such as libraries, social gatherings, and cooperatives.
16. They supported shorter work days, free silver, private companies owning the railroad and telegraph lines, limiting presidency and vice presidency to a single term, secret ballots, and electing senators directly, and a national income tax.
17. People set up boomtowns (like Skagway!) near gold fields as a place for miners to live while they searched for gold. They also set up towns along the railroad to run railway stations for gold and goods and people to pass through.
18. The railroad was able to transport cattle to places they wouldn't have been able to go otherwise. This allowed ranchers to be able to make money off of their cattle by selling them to people in places where there wasn't cattle.
19. The banks were charging them astronomical interest on their loans. The price they could sell their crops for was getting lower and lower, but the price they paid for equipment and seeds and things stayed at the same high place. They were consistently going into debt and being unable to get themelves out until they had to sell their farms or go bankrupt.
20.
* The movement of whites onto Native American lands, and the slaughter of buffalo.
* The United States Army attacked Indians a bunch.
* The Reservation Policy forced Indians into small, unfarmable plots of land.
21. Montana.
22. North.
23. They lived in the Arizona territory.
8. The Chisholm trail led from central Texas to Abilene, Kansas.
9. There were buffalo and other game they weren't used to. It was basically unsettled so it wasn't crowded. It was nice and flat for planting crops. Free land was offered by new laws, and the railroad made it easier and cheaper to get there. There was also the promise of gold out west.
10. They were a very large group of African Americans who moved from the south to settle in Kansas, escaping former slave states.
11. It addressed the lack of rain and moisture in the midwest and western states.
12. There was a mass hunting of buffalo by white people for a few years. They did it to feed the railroad workers and so buffalo wouldn't be in the way. This led the buffalo to near extinction.
13. Oklahoma.
14. He was an Indian leader. He was a chief of the Apache. He led raids against white settlers and he kept attacking them. He escaped them multiple times. He ended up being the last chief to surrender to the whites, holding on long past his contemporaries.
15. It offered farmers education, fellowship, and support. It gave them things such as libraries, social gatherings, and cooperatives.
16. They supported shorter work days, free silver, private companies owning the railroad and telegraph lines, limiting presidency and vice presidency to a single term, secret ballots, and electing senators directly, and a national income tax.
17. People set up boomtowns (like Skagway!) near gold fields as a place for miners to live while they searched for gold. They also set up towns along the railroad to run railway stations for gold and goods and people to pass through.
18. The railroad was able to transport cattle to places they wouldn't have been able to go otherwise. This allowed ranchers to be able to make money off of their cattle by selling them to people in places where there wasn't cattle.
19. The banks were charging them astronomical interest on their loans. The price they could sell their crops for was getting lower and lower, but the price they paid for equipment and seeds and things stayed at the same high place. They were consistently going into debt and being unable to get themelves out until they had to sell their farms or go bankrupt.
20.
* The movement of whites onto Native American lands, and the slaughter of buffalo.
* The United States Army attacked Indians a bunch.
* The Reservation Policy forced Indians into small, unfarmable plots of land.
21. Montana.
22. North.
23. They lived in the Arizona territory.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Journey Questions
1.) Blockade and offensive were two ways each side used to protected their land.
2.) Blockade was used by the Confederates and was normally covered with ironclad.
3.) The border states were a line between the Union and the Confederates, the Union used to be to united states before some states seceded.
4.) Any man who was 18-35 years old would be put in the draft to go into the army and Lincoln suspended habeas corpus for those who tried to avoid it.
5.) 1861-1865
6.) They had better leaders, they were fighting a defensive war, they had greater martial spirit and more will to fight.
7.) Union-Abraham Lincoln Confederate- Jefferson Davis
8.) She played a role as a nurse, she gathered supplies and gave them to the Union and helped the front line.
9.) They were making sure they wouldn't get supplies.
10.) The Union beat the confederates, it was their first big win, it was a a big turning point for the Union.
11.) It stated that any slave in the south was free.
12.) In the South they worked on the fields so the white men could fight in the war. In the North they fought in the wars.
13.) Most of the war was fought on their land so their land was destroyed, the war also cost them a lot of money so they were in debt.
14.) Lee and his men could go home safely with their horses as long as they wouldn't attack them.
15.) They formed West Virginia and Virginia because they disagreed so west Virginia seceded and joined the Union.
16.) The South used it to ship supplies, and the North it divided the north and south and they could prevent the south from getting supplies.
17.) The war was a fight for freedom and the African Americans wanted their freedom so they had more passion and will to fight the war.
18.) He was known as the greatest general in the civil war, he was good to him men and the respected him, he had many good strategies and was very smart and had good attacks.
19.)
Attack on Fort Sumter 1861 Start of the Civil war, critical turing point, confederates first attack
Monitor v. Merrimack 1862 first battle between metal ships, new age of naval warfare
Emancipation proclamation 1863 the civil war was also about freedom for slaves.
Lincoln is reelected 1864 The Union wanted to keep pushing for the confederates to rejoin the Union.
Appomattox Court house 1865 The end of the war where Lee surrendered.
20.) Cemetery ridge
21.) Ewell
22.) Lee. Swell, Pickett, Longstreet, Hill,
2.) Blockade was used by the Confederates and was normally covered with ironclad.
3.) The border states were a line between the Union and the Confederates, the Union used to be to united states before some states seceded.
4.) Any man who was 18-35 years old would be put in the draft to go into the army and Lincoln suspended habeas corpus for those who tried to avoid it.
5.) 1861-1865
6.) They had better leaders, they were fighting a defensive war, they had greater martial spirit and more will to fight.
7.) Union-Abraham Lincoln Confederate- Jefferson Davis
8.) She played a role as a nurse, she gathered supplies and gave them to the Union and helped the front line.
9.) They were making sure they wouldn't get supplies.
10.) The Union beat the confederates, it was their first big win, it was a a big turning point for the Union.
11.) It stated that any slave in the south was free.
12.) In the South they worked on the fields so the white men could fight in the war. In the North they fought in the wars.
13.) Most of the war was fought on their land so their land was destroyed, the war also cost them a lot of money so they were in debt.
14.) Lee and his men could go home safely with their horses as long as they wouldn't attack them.
15.) They formed West Virginia and Virginia because they disagreed so west Virginia seceded and joined the Union.
16.) The South used it to ship supplies, and the North it divided the north and south and they could prevent the south from getting supplies.
17.) The war was a fight for freedom and the African Americans wanted their freedom so they had more passion and will to fight the war.
18.) He was known as the greatest general in the civil war, he was good to him men and the respected him, he had many good strategies and was very smart and had good attacks.
19.)
Attack on Fort Sumter 1861 Start of the Civil war, critical turing point, confederates first attack
Monitor v. Merrimack 1862 first battle between metal ships, new age of naval warfare
Emancipation proclamation 1863 the civil war was also about freedom for slaves.
Lincoln is reelected 1864 The Union wanted to keep pushing for the confederates to rejoin the Union.
Appomattox Court house 1865 The end of the war where Lee surrendered.
20.) Cemetery ridge
21.) Ewell
22.) Lee. Swell, Pickett, Longstreet, Hill,
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Don't know much about history
1.) When President Buchanan put a price of 250 on his head, brown responded by giving him two dollars and fifty cents.
2.) His plan was to arm the slaves who would flock to his crusade and march south to establish a black republic in the Appalachians to wage war against the slave holding south.
3.) He became a symbol because he was caught and put on trial for the cause. Many people in the north came to the conclusion the he was a martyr in a just cause.
4.)December 1860, South Carolina was the first state to declare its secession from the Union.
5.) The North had a bigger population, they were economically better off, they outproduced the South in agriculture and livestock. They could increase their wartime supplies and ship them by railroad.
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The south produced in greater quantities that the North in cotton, they were better riders, showed a greater martial spirit, they owned their own rifles, they were more at home with their weapons.
6.) 1.) Bombardment of fort Sumter, the battle that officially starts the war, South Carolina militia forces bombard Fort Sumter, lacking sufficient supplies the fort's commander surrenders.
2.) First Battle of Bull Run: In Virgina the Confederate armies rout Union troops. The Union generalship is largely to blame. Thomas Jackson gets his nickname Stonewall for his leadership of the stand made but his troops that turned the tide of battle. After the battle they realize its not going to be three months its going to be two years. The first income-tax law was passed.
3.) The Seven days' war June 26-July 2, Lee attacks McClellan and eventually drives him away from Richmond. The Peninsular campaign which might have captured Richmond and ended the war.
4.)Battle of Antietam: Single most bloodiest day of the war, 10,000 dead and wounded for each side, Lee pulls back, his invasion blunted, but McClellan fails to pursue the retreating Confederate army. The battle is a critical turning point. With Lee offensive stalled, the likelihood of European recognition of the south is reduced.
5.) Battle of Gettysburg: Final turning point of the war, confederates in search for shoes meet up with the union Calvary, reinforcements start pouring in. The Union army takes a strong defensive position and turn back confederate assaults. Confederates loses 28,000 a third of the army's effective strength, Union losses 23,000. Lee retreats to Virginia unable to press his drive against the North.
7.) I don't agree with it because he gave the generals right to take anyone in when they thought it was a threat to safety, it was unfair and unconstitutional.
8.) If his plans weren't found The confederate would have probably the battle and because it was a big turing point of the war the confederate army probably would have won the Civil war.
9.) After the war the south was in bad shape, Reconstruction is a way to rebuild the south while bringing them into the Union. It would readmit states after they had ratified the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery. Some of the plan involved the people of the south having to swear an oath to the union, giving up their beliefs, or adopting some beliefs to the north. The first of the acts divided the south into military regions under the control of the generals, and accepting the fourteenth amendment they allowed blacks to vote.
10.) The Klu Klux Klan were the most notorious, powerful, and long-lived. They were antagonized whites of the South who were looking for a new way to gain power. They used political terrorism to frighten and suppress not only blacks, but liberal white republicans as well. They used several tactics to gain power power in the south.
11.) Johnson was the first president to be impeached. Under Article II section 4 of the constitution the president shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Johnson tried to dismiss war secretary Edwin M. Stanton there fore the house impeached him.
2.) His plan was to arm the slaves who would flock to his crusade and march south to establish a black republic in the Appalachians to wage war against the slave holding south.
3.) He became a symbol because he was caught and put on trial for the cause. Many people in the north came to the conclusion the he was a martyr in a just cause.
4.)December 1860, South Carolina was the first state to declare its secession from the Union.
5.) The North had a bigger population, they were economically better off, they outproduced the South in agriculture and livestock. They could increase their wartime supplies and ship them by railroad.
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The south produced in greater quantities that the North in cotton, they were better riders, showed a greater martial spirit, they owned their own rifles, they were more at home with their weapons.
6.) 1.) Bombardment of fort Sumter, the battle that officially starts the war, South Carolina militia forces bombard Fort Sumter, lacking sufficient supplies the fort's commander surrenders.
2.) First Battle of Bull Run: In Virgina the Confederate armies rout Union troops. The Union generalship is largely to blame. Thomas Jackson gets his nickname Stonewall for his leadership of the stand made but his troops that turned the tide of battle. After the battle they realize its not going to be three months its going to be two years. The first income-tax law was passed.
3.) The Seven days' war June 26-July 2, Lee attacks McClellan and eventually drives him away from Richmond. The Peninsular campaign which might have captured Richmond and ended the war.
4.)Battle of Antietam: Single most bloodiest day of the war, 10,000 dead and wounded for each side, Lee pulls back, his invasion blunted, but McClellan fails to pursue the retreating Confederate army. The battle is a critical turning point. With Lee offensive stalled, the likelihood of European recognition of the south is reduced.
5.) Battle of Gettysburg: Final turning point of the war, confederates in search for shoes meet up with the union Calvary, reinforcements start pouring in. The Union army takes a strong defensive position and turn back confederate assaults. Confederates loses 28,000 a third of the army's effective strength, Union losses 23,000. Lee retreats to Virginia unable to press his drive against the North.
7.) I don't agree with it because he gave the generals right to take anyone in when they thought it was a threat to safety, it was unfair and unconstitutional.
8.) If his plans weren't found The confederate would have probably the battle and because it was a big turing point of the war the confederate army probably would have won the Civil war.
9.) After the war the south was in bad shape, Reconstruction is a way to rebuild the south while bringing them into the Union. It would readmit states after they had ratified the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery. Some of the plan involved the people of the south having to swear an oath to the union, giving up their beliefs, or adopting some beliefs to the north. The first of the acts divided the south into military regions under the control of the generals, and accepting the fourteenth amendment they allowed blacks to vote.
10.) The Klu Klux Klan were the most notorious, powerful, and long-lived. They were antagonized whites of the South who were looking for a new way to gain power. They used political terrorism to frighten and suppress not only blacks, but liberal white republicans as well. They used several tactics to gain power power in the south.
11.) Johnson was the first president to be impeached. Under Article II section 4 of the constitution the president shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Johnson tried to dismiss war secretary Edwin M. Stanton there fore the house impeached him.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Manifest Destiny
1) What was Manifest Destiny? Manifest Destiny is the idea that the US was meant to extend its borders from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. We should spread freedom by occupying the entire continent.
2) The Oregon Territory consisted of what area? Who claimed it? Oregon, Washington, Idaho, parts of Montana and Wyoming, half of British Columbia. Four nations owned it: US, Great Britain, Spain, and Russia.
3) Who were the Mountain Men? American adventurers who spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains and helped with the fur trade. Some worked for specific companies while others sold their furs to the highest bidder. Some of them married Native women and adopted Native ways, creating a mixed race.
4) Why was the Oregon Trail important? It was the only way to achieve Manifest Destiny. It was the trail to the American Dream. It allowed us to fulfill our 'duty from God' to go west, populate the country, and spread freedom.
5) Discuss the meaning behind the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight"? It refers to the line of latitude that Democrats believed should be the nation's northern border in Oregon, which was a campaign slogan used during the 1844 election. The border was eventually settled at latitude 49.
6) James Polk made what promises to the American public during the election of 1844 (list four - you might need to look up on the internet). He made four promises during his campaign: to acquire California from Mexico, to settle the Oregon dispute, to lower the tariff and create a sub-treasury, and to not run for a second term.
7) Discuss how Texas became independent. In 1819 the US gave up claims to Texas with the Adams-Onis Treaty. Very few people lived in Texas. In 1830 the Mexican government stopped all immigration to Texas from the United States, and US Texans were very angry. Santa Anna, Mexican President, declared himself a dictator. The US Texans banded together with volunteers and they fought. And they liberated San Antonio. During the Alamo, American settlers and the Tejanos declared independence and started to write a Declaration and Constitution.
8) Discuss the battles of The Alamo and San Jacinto. Santa Anna marched forth to take back San Antonio, and found the Texans barricaded inside The Alamo Mission. It was poor leadership and a few men against Santa Anna's army of several thousand. The Alamo defenders help Santa Anna's army away against 2 attacks. Later, Mexicans launched an all-out attack while the Texans defended nobly, but the Mexicans were just too numerous to be defeated. San Jacinto was between Houston and Santa Anna. Houston had about 900 in his army, while Santa Anna had about 1300. Houston's army killed about half of Santa Anna's army, and captured the rest including Santa Anna. A few days later, Santa Anna recognized the independence of Texas.
9) How long did it take the U.S. to annex Texas? Why? It took the US nine years to annex Texas. Andrew Jackson, president at the time, refused to annex Texas. He did this because the addition of another slave state would upset the balance of free and slave states in Congress. Van Buren after him also didn't want to annex Texas. John Tyler, president after Harrison, finally supported Texas, but it didn't work. Only James K. Polk was finally able to get Texas annexed.
10) How did the Mexican-American War start? Why did it start? Was it a "Just War"? Mexico had control of New Mexico as a condition of it's independence. American traders were welcomed into New Mexico. Americans began settling in New Mexico as it was a hot trade area, but they wanted it for themselves, and California as well. California and New Mexico, meanwhile, began being more and more populated by Mexican peoples. President Polk twice offered to buy California and New Mexico, but Mexico refused, prompting the US to take the territories by force. To begin the war, the US built a fort in disputed border land between Mexico and Texas. This forced Mexico to attack first, making Congress believe that war would be a just retaliation. We think it was technically a just war, because the Mexicans did attack first. However, we believe the spirit of the war was unjust, because we basically forced them to attack first so we would have a reason to declare war.
11) What was the American response to the war? Americans were divided over the war. Democrats generally supported it, while Whigs generally opposed it. Whigs believed that the war was aggressive and unjust, disgraceful and cruel, and demanded to know exact reasons and the beginning of the war. Anti-war feeling grew over time, particularly in the north. This was because they believed that the South would spread slavery into any new states.
12) List the major battles of the war. The battle at Santa Fe was major, because it was the capital of Mexico. Even though there wasn't technically a battle, it still counts. The other major battles were the Bear Flag Revolt, battle of Monterey, battle of San Gabriel, battle of San Pasqual (the only Mexican victory), battle of El Brazito, battle of Sacramento, battle of Monterrey, battle of Buena Vista, battle of Cerro Gordo, and the battle of Mexico City.
13) What was the cost of the war? The war cost America 1,721 men to battle, more than 11,00 men to disease, and almost $100 million. We then paid Mexico an additional $25 million during treaty discussions.
14) Why was the California Gold Rush important? Californian cities, and cities on the way, benefitted from the economic boom. California's population grew greatly, and developed an amazing economy due to boom towns. The gold rush also more than doubled the world's supply of gold, a very valuable commodity at the time. The effect on California's economy lasted a long time after the gold rush ended. The population grew, requiring better government. It urged California to apply for statehood, which it gained about a year later.
15) Answer the following questions on page 380 - #6 - #10, #13-#15.
* 6. They agreed about the northern latitude of Oregon, for ownership purposes. It ended up being on latitude 49.
* 7. He was afraid to disrupt the balance of slave and free states.
* 8. It gave them a direct line to the Pacific Ocean. There were still British people settled in the territories above California.
* 9. The US wanted New Mexico and California, and Mexico refused to sell. The other reason was that the US set up Mexico to attack them (by building a fort) so they could justify a war.
* 10. People found gold and they would use it. They also had a monopoly on the sales because they were the only merchants there.
* 13. It expanded the US west, all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
* 14. They probably thought the US was just greedy and wanted all the land they could get because they were selfish. They wanted to keep their own land in North America.
* 15. The ones between the US and Britain had a favorable outcome for everyone because they came to an agreement. Whereas the ones with the US and Mexico led to war because they couldn't agree.
2) The Oregon Territory consisted of what area? Who claimed it? Oregon, Washington, Idaho, parts of Montana and Wyoming, half of British Columbia. Four nations owned it: US, Great Britain, Spain, and Russia.
3) Who were the Mountain Men? American adventurers who spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains and helped with the fur trade. Some worked for specific companies while others sold their furs to the highest bidder. Some of them married Native women and adopted Native ways, creating a mixed race.
4) Why was the Oregon Trail important? It was the only way to achieve Manifest Destiny. It was the trail to the American Dream. It allowed us to fulfill our 'duty from God' to go west, populate the country, and spread freedom.
5) Discuss the meaning behind the slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight"? It refers to the line of latitude that Democrats believed should be the nation's northern border in Oregon, which was a campaign slogan used during the 1844 election. The border was eventually settled at latitude 49.
6) James Polk made what promises to the American public during the election of 1844 (list four - you might need to look up on the internet). He made four promises during his campaign: to acquire California from Mexico, to settle the Oregon dispute, to lower the tariff and create a sub-treasury, and to not run for a second term.
7) Discuss how Texas became independent. In 1819 the US gave up claims to Texas with the Adams-Onis Treaty. Very few people lived in Texas. In 1830 the Mexican government stopped all immigration to Texas from the United States, and US Texans were very angry. Santa Anna, Mexican President, declared himself a dictator. The US Texans banded together with volunteers and they fought. And they liberated San Antonio. During the Alamo, American settlers and the Tejanos declared independence and started to write a Declaration and Constitution.
8) Discuss the battles of The Alamo and San Jacinto. Santa Anna marched forth to take back San Antonio, and found the Texans barricaded inside The Alamo Mission. It was poor leadership and a few men against Santa Anna's army of several thousand. The Alamo defenders help Santa Anna's army away against 2 attacks. Later, Mexicans launched an all-out attack while the Texans defended nobly, but the Mexicans were just too numerous to be defeated. San Jacinto was between Houston and Santa Anna. Houston had about 900 in his army, while Santa Anna had about 1300. Houston's army killed about half of Santa Anna's army, and captured the rest including Santa Anna. A few days later, Santa Anna recognized the independence of Texas.
9) How long did it take the U.S. to annex Texas? Why? It took the US nine years to annex Texas. Andrew Jackson, president at the time, refused to annex Texas. He did this because the addition of another slave state would upset the balance of free and slave states in Congress. Van Buren after him also didn't want to annex Texas. John Tyler, president after Harrison, finally supported Texas, but it didn't work. Only James K. Polk was finally able to get Texas annexed.
10) How did the Mexican-American War start? Why did it start? Was it a "Just War"? Mexico had control of New Mexico as a condition of it's independence. American traders were welcomed into New Mexico. Americans began settling in New Mexico as it was a hot trade area, but they wanted it for themselves, and California as well. California and New Mexico, meanwhile, began being more and more populated by Mexican peoples. President Polk twice offered to buy California and New Mexico, but Mexico refused, prompting the US to take the territories by force. To begin the war, the US built a fort in disputed border land between Mexico and Texas. This forced Mexico to attack first, making Congress believe that war would be a just retaliation. We think it was technically a just war, because the Mexicans did attack first. However, we believe the spirit of the war was unjust, because we basically forced them to attack first so we would have a reason to declare war.
11) What was the American response to the war? Americans were divided over the war. Democrats generally supported it, while Whigs generally opposed it. Whigs believed that the war was aggressive and unjust, disgraceful and cruel, and demanded to know exact reasons and the beginning of the war. Anti-war feeling grew over time, particularly in the north. This was because they believed that the South would spread slavery into any new states.
12) List the major battles of the war. The battle at Santa Fe was major, because it was the capital of Mexico. Even though there wasn't technically a battle, it still counts. The other major battles were the Bear Flag Revolt, battle of Monterey, battle of San Gabriel, battle of San Pasqual (the only Mexican victory), battle of El Brazito, battle of Sacramento, battle of Monterrey, battle of Buena Vista, battle of Cerro Gordo, and the battle of Mexico City.
13) What was the cost of the war? The war cost America 1,721 men to battle, more than 11,00 men to disease, and almost $100 million. We then paid Mexico an additional $25 million during treaty discussions.
14) Why was the California Gold Rush important? Californian cities, and cities on the way, benefitted from the economic boom. California's population grew greatly, and developed an amazing economy due to boom towns. The gold rush also more than doubled the world's supply of gold, a very valuable commodity at the time. The effect on California's economy lasted a long time after the gold rush ended. The population grew, requiring better government. It urged California to apply for statehood, which it gained about a year later.
15) Answer the following questions on page 380 - #6 - #10, #13-#15.
* 6. They agreed about the northern latitude of Oregon, for ownership purposes. It ended up being on latitude 49.
* 7. He was afraid to disrupt the balance of slave and free states.
* 8. It gave them a direct line to the Pacific Ocean. There were still British people settled in the territories above California.
* 9. The US wanted New Mexico and California, and Mexico refused to sell. The other reason was that the US set up Mexico to attack them (by building a fort) so they could justify a war.
* 10. People found gold and they would use it. They also had a monopoly on the sales because they were the only merchants there.
* 13. It expanded the US west, all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
* 14. They probably thought the US was just greedy and wanted all the land they could get because they were selfish. They wanted to keep their own land in North America.
* 15. The ones between the US and Britain had a favorable outcome for everyone because they came to an agreement. Whereas the ones with the US and Mexico led to war because they couldn't agree.
Friday, December 3, 2010
1) He said this after Shay's Rebellion and it is prevented an over reaction of the up rise. And it prevented people from just giving up on the new government and that it was important that the government did not get to much control.
2) Farmers were being sent to jail and court and having their land taken away because they could not pay taxes, the farmers thought they were being treated unfairly
3) 3/5 compromise, which stated that slaves would count as 3/5, this was for taxation and representation purposes.
4. James Madison
5. The youthinisum of slaves.
6. Executive branch, Powers: approves or vetoes federal bills, carries out federal laws, appoints judges, makes foreign treaties, commander-in-chief of armed forces.
Legislative branch, Powers: Passes federal laws, establishes lower federal courts and the number of federal judges, can override the president’s veto with two-thirds vote.
Judicial Branch, Powers: interprets and applies the law by trying federal cases, can declare laws passed by congress and executive actions unconstitutional.
Executive: Congress can override vetoes by two-thirds vote, senate can refuse to confirm appointments or ratify treaties, congress can impeach and remove president, congress can declare war, and Supreme Court can declare executive acts unconstitutional.
Legislative: Presidential veto of federal bills, Supreme court can rule laws unconstitutional, both houses of congress must vote to pass laws checking power with legislature.
Judicial: congress can propose constitutional amendments to overturn judicial decisions, congress can impeach and remove federal judges, and president appoints judges.
7. John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison: To back up ratification of the constitution.
8. Separation of church and state, right to bear arms, Soldiers cannot be housed without owners consent, freedom of unreasonable search and seizure, laws concerning prosecution, right to a speedy public trial, Guarantees trial by jury, prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, defines rules of the constitution, Powers not specifically delegated to the federal government.
9. White men who owned land.
10. It was a private discussion over dinner with Hamilton, they wanted to insure that the capital would be close to Virginia.
11. Increased trade between countries and inverted war.
12. Farmers rebelled because the whiskey was being taxed, Washington lead troops.
13. It was a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, and had to go to the House of Representatives.
14. Places by John Adams, Head of the Supreme Court, made the Supreme Court what it is today.
15. After losing Hatiti he realizes its not wroth it and needs to worry about European affairs rather then getting a colony in America.
16. They explored the west and were sent by Jefferson, They lefts present day Indiana, went to North Dakota and spent the winter there and left and explored that area more then went home.
17) We made Burr lose his spot as president and as governor, causing a successful political destruction of Burr. Well yes in a sense, challenging Hamilition should have been expected by what he did to burr but burr betraying the United States was not right. Hamilton was killed and Burr's take over and create a new empire failed.
18) The Embargo act prohibited all exports into America as economic retaliation for the British impressments policy and as a means to keep America out of the war. It was very unpopular.
19) Tried to unite the native groups because he envisioned a vast Indian confederacy strong enough to keep the Ohio River as a border between Indians and Whites (prevent further westward expansion)
20) Occurred at the junction of the Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers. The Prophet ordered poorly calculated attack on Harrison’s 1000 men. The Indians inflicted heavy losses but were eventually pushed back and all of their food stores, their village was destroyed and the prophet’s claim of invincible magic was shattered
21) Both agreed on a truce and neither side lost or gained anything
22) It was a very lopsided war. British suffered more than 2000 dead, while the US casualties were 8 dead and a small number wounded
23) It declared that the United States would not tolerate interventions in the Americas by European nations. Or that the US would not interfere with already established colonies or with government sin Europe.
24) Missouri would be considered a slave state even though it was in the North of the non-slave bountires, even out the states.
25) It went to the House of Representatives, between Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay. Henry Clay pushed to make John Quincy Adams president, and when Adams won John Q got a place in the president’s cabinet so it seems like a bargain.
26) Trail of Tears, Jacksonian Democracy, Andrew Jackson embodied the new American spirit and became the idol of the ambitious jingoistic younger men who called themselves Democrats (of the American common man)
27) Yes and they called him long knife. Creek war, 1812, first Semimole, unless the adapt to the American ways you have to leave
28) Andrew Jackson embodied the new American spirit and became the idol of the ambitious jingoistic younger men who called themselves Democrats. Cam from poverty, fought in the revolution, first president from the west.
2) Farmers were being sent to jail and court and having their land taken away because they could not pay taxes, the farmers thought they were being treated unfairly
3) 3/5 compromise, which stated that slaves would count as 3/5, this was for taxation and representation purposes.
4. James Madison
5. The youthinisum of slaves.
6. Executive branch, Powers: approves or vetoes federal bills, carries out federal laws, appoints judges, makes foreign treaties, commander-in-chief of armed forces.
Legislative branch, Powers: Passes federal laws, establishes lower federal courts and the number of federal judges, can override the president’s veto with two-thirds vote.
Judicial Branch, Powers: interprets and applies the law by trying federal cases, can declare laws passed by congress and executive actions unconstitutional.
Executive: Congress can override vetoes by two-thirds vote, senate can refuse to confirm appointments or ratify treaties, congress can impeach and remove president, congress can declare war, and Supreme Court can declare executive acts unconstitutional.
Legislative: Presidential veto of federal bills, Supreme court can rule laws unconstitutional, both houses of congress must vote to pass laws checking power with legislature.
Judicial: congress can propose constitutional amendments to overturn judicial decisions, congress can impeach and remove federal judges, and president appoints judges.
7. John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison: To back up ratification of the constitution.
8. Separation of church and state, right to bear arms, Soldiers cannot be housed without owners consent, freedom of unreasonable search and seizure, laws concerning prosecution, right to a speedy public trial, Guarantees trial by jury, prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, defines rules of the constitution, Powers not specifically delegated to the federal government.
9. White men who owned land.
10. It was a private discussion over dinner with Hamilton, they wanted to insure that the capital would be close to Virginia.
11. Increased trade between countries and inverted war.
12. Farmers rebelled because the whiskey was being taxed, Washington lead troops.
13. It was a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, and had to go to the House of Representatives.
14. Places by John Adams, Head of the Supreme Court, made the Supreme Court what it is today.
15. After losing Hatiti he realizes its not wroth it and needs to worry about European affairs rather then getting a colony in America.
16. They explored the west and were sent by Jefferson, They lefts present day Indiana, went to North Dakota and spent the winter there and left and explored that area more then went home.
17) We made Burr lose his spot as president and as governor, causing a successful political destruction of Burr. Well yes in a sense, challenging Hamilition should have been expected by what he did to burr but burr betraying the United States was not right. Hamilton was killed and Burr's take over and create a new empire failed.
18) The Embargo act prohibited all exports into America as economic retaliation for the British impressments policy and as a means to keep America out of the war. It was very unpopular.
19) Tried to unite the native groups because he envisioned a vast Indian confederacy strong enough to keep the Ohio River as a border between Indians and Whites (prevent further westward expansion)
20) Occurred at the junction of the Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers. The Prophet ordered poorly calculated attack on Harrison’s 1000 men. The Indians inflicted heavy losses but were eventually pushed back and all of their food stores, their village was destroyed and the prophet’s claim of invincible magic was shattered
21) Both agreed on a truce and neither side lost or gained anything
22) It was a very lopsided war. British suffered more than 2000 dead, while the US casualties were 8 dead and a small number wounded
23) It declared that the United States would not tolerate interventions in the Americas by European nations. Or that the US would not interfere with already established colonies or with government sin Europe.
24) Missouri would be considered a slave state even though it was in the North of the non-slave bountires, even out the states.
25) It went to the House of Representatives, between Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay. Henry Clay pushed to make John Quincy Adams president, and when Adams won John Q got a place in the president’s cabinet so it seems like a bargain.
26) Trail of Tears, Jacksonian Democracy, Andrew Jackson embodied the new American spirit and became the idol of the ambitious jingoistic younger men who called themselves Democrats (of the American common man)
27) Yes and they called him long knife. Creek war, 1812, first Semimole, unless the adapt to the American ways you have to leave
28) Andrew Jackson embodied the new American spirit and became the idol of the ambitious jingoistic younger men who called themselves Democrats. Cam from poverty, fought in the revolution, first president from the west.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Constitution Questions
1.) Executive branch, Powers: approves or vetoes federal bills, carries out federal laws, appoints judges, makes foreign treaties, commander-in-chief of armed forces.
Legislative branch, Powers: Passes federal laws, establishes lower federal courts and the number of federal judges, can override the president’s veto with two-thirds vote.
Judicial Branch, Powers: interprets and applies the law by trying federal cases, can declare laws passed by congress and executive actions unconstitutional.
2.) Executive: Congress can override vetoes by two-thirds vote, senate can refuse to confirm appointments or ratify treaties, congress can impeach and remove president, congress can declare war, and Supreme court can declare executive acts unconstitutional.
Legislative: Presidential veto of federal bills, Supreme court can rule laws unconstitutional, both houses of congress must vote to pass laws checking power with legislature.
Judicial: congress can propose constitutional amendments to overturn judicial decisions, congress can impeach and remove federal judges, president appoints judges.
#3 Two house legislature,Three-fifths compromise – a slave counted as three-fifths of a person, Slave trade – they band the slave trade and the northerners agreed that they the congress could not interfere with the southern slave trade until 1808 George Mason proposed the bill of rights to be included in the constitution.
#4 James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
#5 Protection of individuals’ rights, people were worried the government would get to much power and their rights would be taken away.
#6 Their worry was that their new constitution would take away the liberties Americans had fought to win from Great Britain. The constitution would create a strong central government and would ignore states and favor the wealthy.
Legislative branch, Powers: Passes federal laws, establishes lower federal courts and the number of federal judges, can override the president’s veto with two-thirds vote.
Judicial Branch, Powers: interprets and applies the law by trying federal cases, can declare laws passed by congress and executive actions unconstitutional.
2.) Executive: Congress can override vetoes by two-thirds vote, senate can refuse to confirm appointments or ratify treaties, congress can impeach and remove president, congress can declare war, and Supreme court can declare executive acts unconstitutional.
Legislative: Presidential veto of federal bills, Supreme court can rule laws unconstitutional, both houses of congress must vote to pass laws checking power with legislature.
Judicial: congress can propose constitutional amendments to overturn judicial decisions, congress can impeach and remove federal judges, president appoints judges.
#3 Two house legislature,Three-fifths compromise – a slave counted as three-fifths of a person, Slave trade – they band the slave trade and the northerners agreed that they the congress could not interfere with the southern slave trade until 1808 George Mason proposed the bill of rights to be included in the constitution.
#4 James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
#5 Protection of individuals’ rights, people were worried the government would get to much power and their rights would be taken away.
#6 Their worry was that their new constitution would take away the liberties Americans had fought to win from Great Britain. The constitution would create a strong central government and would ignore states and favor the wealthy.
Friday, October 29, 2010
revolution q's
1) What rebel leaders does Paul Revere ride at midnight to warn?
The British were going to march.
2) In detail, describe how the battle of Concord looked?
In a field in Lexington. Colonist waited in the field for the British and was told not to fire. They were in a malisha line. Someone fired a shot and it started the war. 8 colonists were dead and only one British were wounded. Then the colonist marched to the Concord and the British fired a warning shot and then started firing, the real battle started on the march back to Boston, it was a bloody battle, there was a lot of house to house fighting, it was a brawl. 73 of the colonist died.
3) Why was the Revolutionary War the most important event in U.S. History?
It legally created the nation and infused into our culture our beliefs. It was the war that created our independence.
4) How many cities over 10,000 where there in America at the time of the Revolution? 4
5) Describe the country before the Revolutionary War? Why might not we, in the 21st century, recognize it?
Only two and a half people, only four cities, there were lots of trees and lumbar, land was available and cheap, wealth was the way to get up the social ladder. Slaves where a pat of the shipping industry.
6) Why was James Otis important?
He imposed taxes; his writing was the inspiration, and closest thing they had to a revolutionary.
7) What was Samuel Adams known for?
He organized a political group called the son’s of liberty.
8) Describe the Patriotic Leaders.
They were Nobel idealist and they had self-interest and would do whatever to get what they want.
9) What percent of the population, according to John Adams, wanted liberty?
One third wanted it.
10) Discuss how the events of the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party lead to the Revolutionary War.
In the Boston Massacre the colonist were taunting British soldiers and it turned into hostilities, more colonists began coming to the scene and some rang church bells, which normally signals a fire. Trying to calm the crowed down made things worse and people started firing guns that lead to several wounded and five dead.
The British taxes tea for a lot, the colonist didn’t like that so they disguise themselves as natives and dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor, because they ships from England wouldn’t leave.
The British were going to march.
2) In detail, describe how the battle of Concord looked?
In a field in Lexington. Colonist waited in the field for the British and was told not to fire. They were in a malisha line. Someone fired a shot and it started the war. 8 colonists were dead and only one British were wounded. Then the colonist marched to the Concord and the British fired a warning shot and then started firing, the real battle started on the march back to Boston, it was a bloody battle, there was a lot of house to house fighting, it was a brawl. 73 of the colonist died.
3) Why was the Revolutionary War the most important event in U.S. History?
It legally created the nation and infused into our culture our beliefs. It was the war that created our independence.
4) How many cities over 10,000 where there in America at the time of the Revolution? 4
5) Describe the country before the Revolutionary War? Why might not we, in the 21st century, recognize it?
Only two and a half people, only four cities, there were lots of trees and lumbar, land was available and cheap, wealth was the way to get up the social ladder. Slaves where a pat of the shipping industry.
6) Why was James Otis important?
He imposed taxes; his writing was the inspiration, and closest thing they had to a revolutionary.
7) What was Samuel Adams known for?
He organized a political group called the son’s of liberty.
8) Describe the Patriotic Leaders.
They were Nobel idealist and they had self-interest and would do whatever to get what they want.
9) What percent of the population, according to John Adams, wanted liberty?
One third wanted it.
10) Discuss how the events of the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party lead to the Revolutionary War.
In the Boston Massacre the colonist were taunting British soldiers and it turned into hostilities, more colonists began coming to the scene and some rang church bells, which normally signals a fire. Trying to calm the crowed down made things worse and people started firing guns that lead to several wounded and five dead.
The British taxes tea for a lot, the colonist didn’t like that so they disguise themselves as natives and dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor, because they ships from England wouldn’t leave.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Howard Zinn chap 5
This chapter has to do with what happened before the war. Indians were not allowed to fight and only in the North blacks were allowed to join, therefor they had trouble recruiting white men. Poor farmers joined in hope of gaining social rank. The men ended up returning home after the war and ended up in debt because of the war and lost everything. in the revolutionary war men from the North mostly fought because the people in the South stayed out trying to keep slaves under control. When the war ended natives were still treated badly compared to the colonist and continued to lose land. the chapter finished up talking about the constitution, the men who wrote it were rich white men, the poor colonist started a riot.
Monday, October 11, 2010
French and indian war questions 2
1) Why do only the Mohawk agree to fight with General Johnson?
They agree to fight with them because the other tribes wouldn’t want to shed native blood in a white man’s war.
2) What are the results of the Battle of Lake George?
The English won and forced the French to retreat.
3) For what purposes did the Native Americans take captive? (List three)
They wanted to frighten settlers to leave so they could have their land back.
They took them to replace Indians who have died in the war and spiritual reasons
They used them as weapons against the encroachers.
4) Why is the story of Mary Jemison presented? What purpose does it serve?
To show how it was also hard for women during the war, and what was happening to other colonists.
5) Do you agree with Washington's disciplinary practices on deserters? Why or why
not?
Yes and no, I don’t think it was right to hang them but it did send out a message to his troops and scare them.
6) Who is Montcalm and why doesn't he like the Natives?
He is a French commander. They look like barbarians, and dress poorly for war, he doesn’t like the way they prepare for war by singing a war song.
7) What are the Native Americans code of honor? How does this differ from the Europeans' Code of War?
They take their weapons from their enemies they have killed to prove that they have won. The Europeans see is a savagery. The native American’s fight in the woods rather then fight in a line like the Europeans, they also kill women and children and the Europeans don’t. When someone would surrender they would let them leave but the Native Americans wouldn’t.
8) Discuss the culture clash that happens at Fort William Henry.
The French and British have a banquet and the Indians are not invited. They also didn’t like the formal apporch they had, and was upset when they didn’t let them take captives.
They agree to fight with them because the other tribes wouldn’t want to shed native blood in a white man’s war.
2) What are the results of the Battle of Lake George?
The English won and forced the French to retreat.
3) For what purposes did the Native Americans take captive? (List three)
They wanted to frighten settlers to leave so they could have their land back.
They took them to replace Indians who have died in the war and spiritual reasons
They used them as weapons against the encroachers.
4) Why is the story of Mary Jemison presented? What purpose does it serve?
To show how it was also hard for women during the war, and what was happening to other colonists.
5) Do you agree with Washington's disciplinary practices on deserters? Why or why
not?
Yes and no, I don’t think it was right to hang them but it did send out a message to his troops and scare them.
6) Who is Montcalm and why doesn't he like the Natives?
He is a French commander. They look like barbarians, and dress poorly for war, he doesn’t like the way they prepare for war by singing a war song.
7) What are the Native Americans code of honor? How does this differ from the Europeans' Code of War?
They take their weapons from their enemies they have killed to prove that they have won. The Europeans see is a savagery. The native American’s fight in the woods rather then fight in a line like the Europeans, they also kill women and children and the Europeans don’t. When someone would surrender they would let them leave but the Native Americans wouldn’t.
8) Discuss the culture clash that happens at Fort William Henry.
The French and British have a banquet and the Indians are not invited. They also didn’t like the formal apporch they had, and was upset when they didn’t let them take captives.
French and indian war questions 2
1) Why do only the Mohawk agree to fight with General Johnson?
They agree to fight with them because the other tribes wouldn’t want to shed native blood in a white man’s war.
2) What are the results of the Battle of Lake George?
The English won and forced the French to retreat.
3) For what purposes did the Native Americans take captive? (List three)
They wanted to frighten settlers to leave so they could have their land back.
They took them to replace Indians who have died in the war and spiritual reasons
They used them as weapons against the encroachers.
4) Why is the story of Mary Jemison presented? What purpose does it serve?
To show how it was also hard for women during the war, and what was happening to other colonists.
5) Do you agree with Washington's disciplinary practices on deserters? Why or why
not?
Yes and no, I don’t think it was right to hang them but it did send out a message to his troops and scare them.
6) Who is Montcalm and why doesn't he like the Natives?
He is a French commander. They look like barbarians, and dress poorly for war, he doesn’t like the way they prepare for war by singing a war song.
7) What are the Native Americans code of honor? How does this differ from the Europeans' Code of War?
They take their weapons from their enemies they have killed to prove that they have won. The Europeans see is a savagery. The native American’s fight in the woods rather then fight in a line like the Europeans, they also kill women and children and the Europeans don’t. When someone would surrender they would let them leave but the Native Americans wouldn’t.
8) Discuss the culture clash that happens at Fort William Henry.
The French and British have a banquet and the Indians are not invited. They also didn’t like the formal apporch they had, and was upset when they didn’t let them take captives.
They agree to fight with them because the other tribes wouldn’t want to shed native blood in a white man’s war.
2) What are the results of the Battle of Lake George?
The English won and forced the French to retreat.
3) For what purposes did the Native Americans take captive? (List three)
They wanted to frighten settlers to leave so they could have their land back.
They took them to replace Indians who have died in the war and spiritual reasons
They used them as weapons against the encroachers.
4) Why is the story of Mary Jemison presented? What purpose does it serve?
To show how it was also hard for women during the war, and what was happening to other colonists.
5) Do you agree with Washington's disciplinary practices on deserters? Why or why
not?
Yes and no, I don’t think it was right to hang them but it did send out a message to his troops and scare them.
6) Who is Montcalm and why doesn't he like the Natives?
He is a French commander. They look like barbarians, and dress poorly for war, he doesn’t like the way they prepare for war by singing a war song.
7) What are the Native Americans code of honor? How does this differ from the Europeans' Code of War?
They take their weapons from their enemies they have killed to prove that they have won. The Europeans see is a savagery. The native American’s fight in the woods rather then fight in a line like the Europeans, they also kill women and children and the Europeans don’t. When someone would surrender they would let them leave but the Native Americans wouldn’t.
8) Discuss the culture clash that happens at Fort William Henry.
The French and British have a banquet and the Indians are not invited. They also didn’t like the formal apporch they had, and was upset when they didn’t let them take captives.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Massacre at the Mystic
3. They wanted to freedom to believe their religion. They expected there to be free land.
4. Division of Labor: All men and women were treated equal when it came to work, women did most of the work in the camp and the men spent most of their time hunting. Puritans the men did most of the labor and the women did house chores like cooking and cleaning.
Warfare: Puritans fought with guns and thought god wanted them to fight because that's what they thought was right, and a way to get rid of enemies. Pequots did practice fighting, they didn't think it was the right way to solve things.
Land and property: the Puritans believed you never owned land you were just using it. They believed it was something you would conquer. Pequots had a spiritual connection with their land as saw it as a gift.
5. The Dutch favored trade because they traded things that they needed unlike the British. The Dutch had a better relationship with the natives because they traded what they needed and treated them better because they wanted to be friends with the natives unlike the British, they wanted the natives gone.
12. More massacre accrued because it gave the idea of its ok for white people to kill natives and that it was ok to take their land even though they were there first.
1. Winthrop knew everything wasn't going to work in the beginning but he wanted it to be perfect. He wanted it to be a colony where everyone worked together and helped each other and no arguing. I believe that he will not reach a colony like he expects as fast as he wants it to be.
2. He thinks it will be a better society because it is built on christian values and god will watch over them.
3. The natives were defiantly not in Winthrop's mind when he wrote this. They treated the Natives as if they weren't human and as slaves. The Natives where not making Winthrop's vision happen because they weren't working with the Puritans.
Extended Activity
The Narragansetts escaped the epidemics for the most part. Smaller tribes suffered losses and the survivors became a part of the Narragansett tribe. The first documented contact with the Narragansetts took place in 1524 when Giovanni de Verrazano came to Rhode Island. The Narragansetts were one of the most powerful tribes in the area and offered protection to other tribes in exchange for goods or services. They had winter homes and summer homes. In the summer they would move inland for hunting, and in the winter they lived near the shore. Their culture was very similar to that of the Pequots, but they didn’t fare so badly in the wars. They tried to ally with the English rather than immediately being against them.
Scientific evidence shows Mohegan presence in Connecticut for over 10,000 years. At the time of European contact they were part of the Pequot tribe, but they soon separated. Mohegan means “wolf clan” in their language. Men were hunters and went to war. Women were farmers and also did most of the childcare and cooking. Both were storytellers and took part in art, medicine and music. Chiefs were men. Children had a lot of chores, and played games and with homemade dolls. The Mohegans favored collaboration with the English and became friends with them, starting an uneasy alliance. True to their word, they helped the English defeat the Pequots. This alliance kept the Mohegan people relatively safe during white vs. native wars.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn tells a different side of the story of Columbus then what text books say. It's a new side of Columbus that people don't know and aren't taught normally in classrooms. He tells his side no matter how bad it is, he tells the side of the unfortunate people. I think its good that there is a book about the other side of the story rather then just the side that makes the explorers look good.
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