Hey Gang! This week is President Research Paper week. We will have two days in class to do research for your paper. Friday, you will have a test on Era of Reform, Manifest Destiny, and Some Epic Fail information.
Here is your Mini-Study Guide for Friday's Test:
I suggest you are able to explain the image below...
- What does Manifest Destiny mean?
- Which president died 30 days into office?
- What dangers might one face as they moved west?
- Why did people move west in the1840s?
- What were the effects of Morse Code?
- What were the effects of the growth in railroads in the 1840s?
- What was the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?
- What is temperance?
- What is abolitionism?
- What group moved west and/or were effected by Manifest Destiny?
Week
of January 19-23
Day 1 – Monday – No School – Martin Luther King, JR. Day
Day 2
In Class: Work on President Research Paper – Students researching their presidents
and making note cards
HW: Watch the Road
to Civil War Video Podcast by Tuesday Jan. 27...
Notes: Test on Friday, January 23 – Era of Reform, Manifest Destiny, and the
Epic Fails! – 20 Note Cards due January 30 – Minimum two sources
Day 3
In Class: Work on President Research Paper – Students researching their presidents
and making note cards
HW: Watch the Road to Civil War Video Podcast by Tuesday, Jan. 27..
Notes: Test on Friday, January 23 – Era of Reform, Manifest Destiny, and the
Epic Fails! – 20 Note Cards due January 30 – Minimum two sources
Day 4
In Class: Test! -- Era of Reform, Manifest
Destiny, and the Epic Fails!
HW: Road to Civil War Video Podcast by Tuesday Jan. 27...
Notes: Note Cards due January 30 – Minimum two sources
Week of January 26—30
Day 1 -- Research Day for President Research Paper
Day 2
In Class:
The Nation at 1850 and the Road to Civil War – Compromise of 1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act…
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
HW: None
Notes: 20 Note Cards due January 30 – Minimum two sources – James K. Polk, Zach
Taylor, Millard Fillmore Presidential Projects due Feb. 2
Day 3
In Class: Road to Civil War – Kansas-Nebraska Act, Founding of the Republican
Party, Bleeding Kansas and how the west tore the nation apart… Dred Scott v. Sandford, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA.
John Brown
John Brown's Raid in Kansas Pottowatomie Creek 1856
Charles Sumner beaten in Congress - 1856
HW: None
Notes: 20 Note Cards due January 30 – Minimum two sources – James K. Polk, Zach
Taylor, Millard Fillmore Presidential Projects due Feb. 2
Day 4 -- Marist Day