Finish Assignments

Things to do:

1.  Finish the webquest

2.  Finish Chapter 20 vocabulary

3.  Take the formative assessment quiz

4.  Watch this video  Separate but Equal?

Finish the Webquest

Finish the webquest assignment from yesterday.  When finished, take the formative assessment quiz by clicking on the following link:  Formative Assessment Quiz

If you have not finished the vocabulary, now is a good time to finish.  It is due tomorrow.

When finished, you may play these Java Games:   http://www.quia.com/jg/1969077.html

Reconstruction Webquest

  Find a partner, copy questions to a Google Doc, answer the  questions , share with me

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I. Policies Regarding Reconstruction

A. Describe Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction of the
    South.

B. What opposition did he face?

C. What happened to Lincoln?

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0860645.html

D. In what way was Johnson’s plan for
     reconstruction different from Lincoln’s?

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0860646.html

E. How did the Radical Republicans respond to Johnson’s policies?

F. What reason did Congress give for impeaching Johnson?

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=509

  

II. Struggles of the Freedmen

A. Once the slaves were free, what were some of the problems faced (read "Condition of the Former Slaves.")?

http://www.civilwarhome.com/freedmen.htm

B. What were the Black Codes?

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASblackcodes.htm

C. What were the Jim Crow Laws?

D. Give some examples.

http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm

E. Why was the first Ku Klux Klan formed?

F. In what ways did the members frighten and abuse African Americans?

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0859144.html

 

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III. Amendments 13, 14, and 15

A.  What was the purpose of the 15th amendment?
B.  What groups of people are excluded from the 15th amendment

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am13

 C. Using geography and political affiliations tell who
      was most in favor of the 13th Amendment. 
      Explain. 

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h127.html

 

^{D. Describe one of the earliest attempts to abolish slavery and explain why it was unsuccessful.}

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan31.html

 ^{E. How did the 14th Amendment attempt to guarantee the freedoms of African Americans?}

^{F. Why was the 14th Amendment unsuccessful in guaranteeing equal rights to
    African Americans born in the United States?}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_codes_in_the_USA

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IV.   Segregation

A.  Describe the circumstances behind Plessy v.  Ferguson

B. What was the court’s decision? 
Plessy v Ferguson 

C. What Supreme Court decision reversed Plessy V. Ferguson? 
Court case 

D. What did the court say about the concept of "separate but equal?"

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  Discussion Question:

Is it possible to legislate equality?  Use at least 2 examples from your study of Reconstruction in your answer.

Reconstruction Vocabulary

We are in the home stretch for the eighth grade social studies curriculum.  The last historic era we will study is Reconstruction.  Today, students will study the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, take a pre-test (link to pre-test at the bottom of today's blog entry), and complete the list of vocabulary words and terms found below:


Jim Crow Laws
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
sharecropping
Civil Rights Act of 1866
literacy test
Ku Klux Klan
Radical Republicans
segregation
carpetbaggers
poll tax
grandfather clause
Andrew Johnson
Ten Percent Plan
Freedmen's Bureau
Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
Compromise of 1877
Reconstruction Acts
Black Codes
Hiram Revels

Reconstruction Pre-Test 

Review for the Civil War test

Finish reviewing for the test today.

Items on the test include:

Union
Confederacy
Bombing of Fort Sumter
First Battle of Bull Run
secession
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Seige of Vicksburg
Gettysburg Address
54th Massachusetts Infantry
Pickett's Charge
border states
Sherman's March
Emancipation Proclamation
Appomattox Courthouse
suspension of habeas corpus

Gettysburg Address Animated

Gettysburg Address from Adam Gault on Vimeo.

Today, you will re-write the Gettysburg Address in your own words.  When finished, create an acrostic poem from these letters:  GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
It may help to look at the wordle below

Four-Score and Seven Years Ago

Perhaps the most famous speech given by an American president, the Gettysburg Address was delivered by Abraham Lincoln several months following the famed 3-day battle.  Lincoln arrived in Gettysburg by train the day before the event, spent the night at the Wills house on the town square instead of at a hotel, and delivered his short speech for dedication of the Solders' National Cemetery on November 19, 1863.

 Before Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address, Edward Everett gave a long speech. He droned on for 2 hours comparing the Civil War soldiers to Greek gods. In comparison, Lincoln's speech lasted only 2 minutes. Because it was very short compared to the other speaker, there was silence from the audience afterward. Some said it was because they were not sure that he was done, but others said that the crowd was in awe of what was said. His speech was brief, to the point, and poetic yet understandable. It is a classic piece with famous lines now recognized by people worldwide.


Below is a copy of the text:

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal."

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow, this ground -- The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Lincoln's speech puts the Civil War in perspective as a test of the success of the American Revolution. The nation founded on equality was in the midst of a war to determine whether such a nation could continue to exist. He said that they were gathered to formally dedicate ground hallowed by the men, American citizens, who died there, but his speech turned the event into a rededication of the living to the war effort to preserve a nation of freedom.

Pickett's Charge

Today is your last chance to win the Battle of Gettysburg for the Confederate Army.  On the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee made the monumental decision to send Pickett's Division across the field in an attempt to break the Union line.  It was the biggest mistake of his military career.  Never again, would the Army of Virginia have the military might to go on the attack.  For the rest of the war, Lee would desperately defend the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.
Go to Wednesday's link: Line of Musketts and play "Pickett's Charge".  Remember, if you win the battle, you will not have to take the Civil War test!

Check out this video tour of  Battle of Gettysburg

Line of Muskets

When finished with yesterday's assignment (not before!), go to: 
Line of Muskets
Register for the site.  Your password will be sent to your email.

Line of Muskets is a site that provides free access to online games.  Line of Muskets has three scenarios that are free civil war games. Here, you are a general during the Civil War. You make strategic and tactical decisions to fight battles. While you are not fighting the entire war, you are fighting battles against either the computer or other players.

Play the tutorials first, then play Pickett's Charge.  This scenario allows you to put yourself in the place of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.  Good luck, I hope you do better than he did!

Breaking News: Osama Bin Laden Dead

Today you should begin by going to the News Hour Video widget on the right column of this blog.  Click on the news story "President Obama announced death of Osama Bin Laden".  First, watch the video, then read the summary, and finally answer the questions on a Google doc and share with me.


Part 2:
Copy the fill in the blanks below to a Google Doc.  You will need the New York Times article to find the answers.  When you have filled in all of the blanks, share with me.
NY Times Article

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Osama bin Laden was a son of the Saudi elite whose radical, violent campaign to recreate a seventh-century Muslim empire redefined the threat of _________ for the 21st century.

With the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on _________, Bin Laden was elevated to the realm of evil in the American imagination once reserved for dictators like _________ and Stalin. He was a new national enemy, his face on wanted posters, gloating on videotapes, taunting the United States and Western _________.

He was killed on May 1, 2011 by American military and C.I.A. operatives who tracked him to a compound in _________ and shot him during a firefight.

President Obama announced the death in a late-night televised address to the nation. “_________ has been done,” he declared.

The United States had been trying to kill or capture Bin Laden since it launched an invasion of _________ in November 2001. The next month, he escaped from American and Afghan troops at an Afghan mountain redoubt called _________, near the border with Pakistan. For more than nine years afterward, he remained an _________, shadowy figure frustratingly beyond the grasp of his pursuers and thought to be hiding somewhere in Pakistan and plotting new _________.

When he was hunted down, Bin Laden was killed not in Pakistan’s remote tribal area, where he was long rumored to have taken refuge, but rather in in the city of Abbottadad, about an hour’s drive drive north of the Pakistani capital, _________, raising new questions about whether the Pakistani intelligence services had played a role in _________ him.

Long before the Sept. 11th attacks, Bin Laden had become a _________ in much of the Islamic world, as much a myth as a man — what a longtime C.I.A. officer called “the North Star” of global terrorism. He had united disparate militant groups, from Egypt to Chechnya, from Yemen to the Philippines, under the banner of _________ and his ideal of a borderless brotherhood of radical _________.

After the attacks, the name of Al Qaeda and the fame of Bin Laden spread like a 21st-century political plague. Groups calling themselves Al Qaeda, or acting in the name of its _________, attacked American troops in Iraq, bombed tourist spots in _________ and blew up passenger trains in _________.

To the day of his death, the precise reach of his power remained _________: how many members Al Qaeda could truly count on; how many countries its cells had penetrated; and whether, as Bin Laden boasted, he sought to arm Al Qaeda with chemical, biological and _________ weapons.

Still, the most devastating blow to Al Qaeda may not be the death of its founder, but its sudden slide toward irrelevance as the _________ of the Arab world took to the streets in early 2011 to push for _________, not the Islamic caliphate that was Bin Laden’s goal.

Civil War Scavenger Hunt

Go to the following site to complete a scavenger hunt:        
Scavenger Hunt

When finished play these Java Games for Civil War Vocabulary:
Vocabulary

Finished early?  Go to the News Hour Video Widget on the right of the blog, watch President Obama's speech on the death of Osama Bin Laden.  Read the article that follows.