Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Exit Ticket

Grants Leadership
Lee's Surender
and The Burning of Atlanta

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 whereever he may be
-Commit to a strategy of total war, which meant he was also going to strike civilian population

Describe how Grant takes it to Lee: Grant took control of Eastern Army himself and fought several brutal battles with Lee including: Wilderness Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor

Describe Sherman’s March to the Sea: Sherman who looted, pillaged, and set fire to everthing in his path

Describe the Battle of Petersburg: Grant employs siege strategy at Petersburg and after several weeks of fighting Lee ordered tetreat of Peterburg

Describe Lee’s surrender:

Describe the death of Lincoln:

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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: In 1828 Jacksons wins the Election against John Quicny Adams. His party promise to strengthen states while weakening the Federal Government

Describe the Indian Removal Act: When The Native Americans were force to move west

Describe the Bank Crisis: Congress passed Charter for Secound Bank of US in 1816. Jackson and his supporters opposed because they saw it as being corrupt with special inrest Jackson Vetoed it in 1832 when Congress tried to renew it

Describe the reaction to Jackson’s policies: The Whigs formed whitch were formed by the charters suporters

Monday, February 8, 2010

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: In the 1820s Mexico gain freedom from Spain
many Americans saw this as an oppritunity to gain land such as Texas California and New Mexico

Describe Manifest Destiny and what people used it to justify:Manifest Destiny was a term used to say that God wanted something to happen. Americans believed that God wanted them to own North America

Describe the Temperance Movement: When America exspaned so did crime and alcohol so they tried to push alcohol moderation

Describe the Abolition Movement: People against slavery

Describe the Education Reform Movement: Horace Mann started public schools by using tax money

Describe the Reform Movement for Women’s rights including the Seneca Falls Conference
Women were told to make a differeance privatly through their husbands but once their role in religon and the public changed they started to want rights.Elizibeth Staton orginized a womens right convention held in Seneca Falls Conference which led to the Married Womens' Property Act to be made a Law in NY

Webquest 2

Birth of a Nation Webquest Words

1. Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the USA legally establishing the union of the staes
2. Shay’s Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and wastern Mass. from 1786 to 1787
3. Great Compromise centered on how many representatives each state should have in new government's lawmaking branch
4. federalism is a political conept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representitive head
5. Three-Fifth’s Compromise 3/5 of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purpose regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the US house of Representives
6. Whiskey Rebellion an uprising that had its beginnings in 1791 and culimnated in an insurrection in 1794 in Pittburgh, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela Valley
7. Little Turtle
8. Alien and Sedition Acts
9. Northwest Ordnance of 1787
10. Louisiana Purchase
11. Monroe Doctrine
12. impressments
13. Star Spangled Banner
14. Eerie Canal
15. Samuel Slater
16. Eli Whitney
17. Horace Mann
18. Temperance Movement
19. Seneca Falls Convention
20. Indian Removal Act
21. Alamo
22. Frederick Douglas
23. William Lloyd Garrison
24. Missouri Compromise
25. Nullification Crisis
26. Wilmot Proviso
27. Compromise of 1850
28. Underground Railroad
29. Harriet Beecher Stowe
30. Kansas-Nebraska Act
31. John Brown
32. Nat Turner
33. Dred Scott
34. Jefferson Davis
35. Robert E Lee
36. Anaconda Plan
37. border state
38. Stonewall Jackson
39. George McClellan
40. Ulysses S Grant
41. Antietam
42. Gettysburg
43. Vicksburg
44. Emancipation Proclamation
45. conscription
46. total war
47. William Sherman
48. John Wilkes Booth

Friday, February 5, 2010

Bell Ring feb 5th

How long does the young women work in the Lowell Mill each day? What affect do you think this work would have on a young person each day

Industrial Rev Review

Industrial Rev Review

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

Describe advances in road construction: Roads went from being mud and dirt roads to being pathed

Describe advances in water transportation: Steamboats made transport on water faster through powering paddles with steam. Canals connect farms to to city by water

Why is the Eerie Canal important? the Erie Canal connected from the Hudson River with Lake Erie and funneled goods through NYC making it industrial center

Describe advances in railroads: Cost less than building ships and carry more weight

Describe advances in industry including Samuel Slater:Sneaks out of England and builds first water powered textile mill from memory

Describe the inventions of Sam Morse and Eli Whitney: Morse-Telegraph Whitney-Interchangeable Parts and Cotton Gin

Why did the Cotton Gin expand slavery? Made cotton more profitable, increased production, and increased need for slavery in order to pick cotton

Thursday, February 4, 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:

Describe Jefferson’s plan to expand the US:

Describe the Louisiana Purchase:

Describe the Lewis and Clark Expedition:

Describe the Monroe Doctrine:

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 British were taking US sailors from ships and forcing them to work in British Navy

What initial action does Jefferson take in war between GB and France to protect the US?
Suspendedd trade by ordering ships to stay in port

Describe the Congressional Action that pushes the US to war:

What does Madison ask Congress to do?

Describe the initial actions of the US in the War of 1812:

Describe US action along fronts other than the Canadian:

What happens in the War when GB’s war with Napoleon ends?

Describe the end of the war including the writing of the star spangled banner:


What battle makes Jackson a hero?