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Thursday, October 07, 2010

Friday, October 8th

SKINNY
Assignment(s) Due:
N/A

In-Class Agenda:
Road to Revolution Notes (w/ Fill-In Note Guide).
Watch Episode #2 Revolution from America: Story of Us.
-Reflection

Homework:
Book Project Due October 29th.

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BLOCK
Assignment(s) Due:
N/A

In-Class Agenda:
Reading on Louisiana Purchase

Notes on War of 1812

Review Manifest Destiny and Discuss:
1.Was American expansion across North America an “inevitable” development? How was the idea of Manifest Destiny used to justify expansionism?

2.Why was the Texas annexation so controversial? What would have happened had Texas remained an independent nation?

3.What caused the Mexican War? Did Polk provoke the Texas-boundary conflict in order to gain California or expand slavery, as war opponents like Lincoln charged?

4.What were the benefits and costs of the Mexican War both immediately and in the longer run of American history?

Game/Activity on Homestead Act

America: Story of Us- Westward Expansion


Homework:
Book Project Due October 18th.
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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy