Guidelines for PROJECTS:
1) Presentable - you have to present your projects.
2) It must use information from the packet: Don't Know Much About History. Must be able to be used as a review guide.
3) Length: 15 minutes
4) Spelling, Grammar, Neatness
5) Creativity
Remember this is a project grade and its worth 50 points. Do well and good luck at Regionals.
Monday 27 February 2012
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Don't Know Much About History
I want you to mark the following:
1) What you find most interesting in the reading - this will be shared.
2) What you find most important. NOTE: These two things aren't always the same.
As a guide you might want to know the following:
Be able to Identify the following people:
George Armstrong Custer
JP Morgan
W.E.B. Du Bois
James Butler Hickok
Theodore Roosevelt
Eugene Debs
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
John D. Rockefeller
Be able to discuss the Importance of the following:
The assassination of William McKinley
The Robber Barons and what they did
The Jungle
Why the Spanish American War was fought
Wounded Knee
Custer’s Last Stand
Jim Crow
Separate But Equal
How the 14th Amendment was used to protect corporations
The Panama Canal
Roosevelt and his “big stick”
Other questions:
What lands did America get from winning the Spanish-American War?
How did this war make America an Imperial Country?
How did Theodore Roosevelt rise in politics?
1) What you find most interesting in the reading - this will be shared.
2) What you find most important. NOTE: These two things aren't always the same.
As a guide you might want to know the following:
Be able to Identify the following people:
George Armstrong Custer
JP Morgan
W.E.B. Du Bois
James Butler Hickok
Theodore Roosevelt
Eugene Debs
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
John D. Rockefeller
Be able to discuss the Importance of the following:
The assassination of William McKinley
The Robber Barons and what they did
The Jungle
Why the Spanish American War was fought
Wounded Knee
Custer’s Last Stand
Jim Crow
Separate But Equal
How the 14th Amendment was used to protect corporations
The Panama Canal
Roosevelt and his “big stick”
Other questions:
What lands did America get from winning the Spanish-American War?
How did this war make America an Imperial Country?
How did Theodore Roosevelt rise in politics?
Tuesday 21 February 2012
Tuesday Feb 21st
Today: Test on the Civil War
Wednesday - Friday: Don't Know Much About History: Monopolies in the 19th Century; The Wild West; The American Empire.
Next Week: ?
Wednesday - Friday: Don't Know Much About History: Monopolies in the 19th Century; The Wild West; The American Empire.
Next Week: ?
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Monday 13 February 2012
Thursday 9 February 2012
Homework for Trip
Finish reading Zinn chapter 9, Study and Know the following information:
3) What was the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment?
4) How was the 14th Amendment reinterpreted? How was the 15th Amendment interrupted?
5) List ways a slave rebelled.
6) Zinn tries to show slavery from a slaves perspective, what are three things he says?
7) After the Civil War how did the South prevent former slaves from attaining power?
8) Why didn't former slaves more after the Civil War?
9) Name two slave uprisings.
10) How many people died in the Civil War?
11) Give the dates of the war.
Battles:
Gettysburg
Appomattox
Antietam
Shiloh
Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Sherman’s March to the Sea
People:
Albert Sidney Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Joe Johnson
Joe Hooker
Tecumseh Sherman
Robert E Lee
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
A.P. Hill
James Longstreet
Booker T Washington
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas
1) Why does the author suggest that John Brown had a sense of humor?
2) What was John Brown's plan?
3) Why did John Brown become a symbol?
4) When and why did South Carolina succeed from the Union?
5) List some of the advantages of the North at the beginning of the war. List some of the advantages of the South at the beginning of the war.
6) List some of the (5) famous battles of the Civil War with a brief description of each.
7) How do you view Lincoln's suspension of "the writ of habeas corpus"?
8) What if Lee's plan had not been found at the battle of Antiem?
9) What was the reconstruction?
10) Why did the Klu Klux Klan form?
11) Discuss Andrew Johnson's impeachment.
How did the Civil War shape our lives today?
Name three ways the Civil War changed the South.
What constitutional right did Lincoln suspend?
List the four border states.
Why did West Virginia form?
What disadvantages did the South fact?
Why did the Confederate States believe they had a right to leave the Union?
What were the three main strategies of the Union?
What was the average age of soldiers who fought in the Civil War?
What was the outcome of Bull Run?
Discuss the Battle of Shiloh.
What were Lincoln’s reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?
What did the 13th Amendment do?
How was the Civil War a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight?
Discuss the draft laws in the north.
Discuss the importance of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
How did Sherman use “Total War” against the South?
Who were the Presidents of the Confederacy and the United States during the Civil War?
What, exactly, did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
3) What was the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment?
4) How was the 14th Amendment reinterpreted? How was the 15th Amendment interrupted?
5) List ways a slave rebelled.
6) Zinn tries to show slavery from a slaves perspective, what are three things he says?
7) After the Civil War how did the South prevent former slaves from attaining power?
8) Why didn't former slaves more after the Civil War?
9) Name two slave uprisings.
10) How many people died in the Civil War?
11) Give the dates of the war.
Battles:
Gettysburg
Appomattox
Antietam
Shiloh
Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Sherman’s March to the Sea
People:
Albert Sidney Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Joe Johnson
Joe Hooker
Tecumseh Sherman
Robert E Lee
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
A.P. Hill
James Longstreet
Booker T Washington
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas
1) Why does the author suggest that John Brown had a sense of humor?
2) What was John Brown's plan?
3) Why did John Brown become a symbol?
4) When and why did South Carolina succeed from the Union?
5) List some of the advantages of the North at the beginning of the war. List some of the advantages of the South at the beginning of the war.
6) List some of the (5) famous battles of the Civil War with a brief description of each.
7) How do you view Lincoln's suspension of "the writ of habeas corpus"?
8) What if Lee's plan had not been found at the battle of Antiem?
9) What was the reconstruction?
10) Why did the Klu Klux Klan form?
11) Discuss Andrew Johnson's impeachment.
How did the Civil War shape our lives today?
Name three ways the Civil War changed the South.
What constitutional right did Lincoln suspend?
List the four border states.
Why did West Virginia form?
What disadvantages did the South fact?
Why did the Confederate States believe they had a right to leave the Union?
What were the three main strategies of the Union?
What was the average age of soldiers who fought in the Civil War?
What was the outcome of Bull Run?
Discuss the Battle of Shiloh.
What were Lincoln’s reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?
What did the 13th Amendment do?
How was the Civil War a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight?
Discuss the draft laws in the north.
Discuss the importance of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
How did Sherman use “Total War” against the South?
Who were the Presidents of the Confederacy and the United States during the Civil War?
What, exactly, did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Monday 6 February 2012
February 6th
Today we will continue working on Civil War projects. Remember - you must cite your sources in proper MLA format.
Wednesday 1 February 2012
Civil War Projects
You will be assigned one of the following battles: Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor, Gettysburg, or Chickamauga. You will need to the following:
1) Research descriptions and overview of the battle, its importance to the war, key figures from both sides, dates, reasons why the battle was fought and the outcome. You should also include the strategy of both sides.
2) You will also need to list 4 important world events during the time of the battle.
3) You will need information on casualties, food rations for each side, and the cost of the Civil War compared to other wars the United States fought (up through the Gulf War).
4) You'll need to list your sources in proper MLA format.
5) You'll need photos of your key figures and battlefield.
6) You'll need to compile and present all this information on a SEPARATE BLOG or a website that you create. Meaning you'll need to either create a new blog and call it, for example, COLD HARBOR, or create a website and do the same.
This will be due next week (probably Wednesday or Thursday - depending).
POINTS: 120.
1) Research descriptions and overview of the battle, its importance to the war, key figures from both sides, dates, reasons why the battle was fought and the outcome. You should also include the strategy of both sides.
2) You will also need to list 4 important world events during the time of the battle.
3) You will need information on casualties, food rations for each side, and the cost of the Civil War compared to other wars the United States fought (up through the Gulf War).
4) You'll need to list your sources in proper MLA format.
5) You'll need photos of your key figures and battlefield.
6) You'll need to compile and present all this information on a SEPARATE BLOG or a website that you create. Meaning you'll need to either create a new blog and call it, for example, COLD HARBOR, or create a website and do the same.
This will be due next week (probably Wednesday or Thursday - depending).
POINTS: 120.
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