11th of Sept. - 15th of Sept.

[6Hannah]

Monday

1. 1.     What was President Bush doing when he heard of the attacks?

• At this moment, he was in Florida in a Primary School listening to children so his first thought was to stay calm. Of course, he was angry but he had to think of his job and how he could react in front of children, parents and paparazzies. After leaving the school and after making different phone calls, he decided to go back to Washington D.C. and act as a chief.

1. 2.     According to President Bush, what is the first thing a leader needs to do for the country in times of crisis?

• To protect people with making the right decisions
• To stay calm and think logical
• To be safe
• To try to figure the reason out

1. 3.     Why did the Secret Service refuse to allow President Bush to go back to Washington D.C. right away?

• They found it would be irresponsible for the president to be back into a city that had just be attacked. (In fact, they didn’t know what also might come next.)

1. 4.     What did the US government/military do to to ensure another attack did not occur?

• All airport across the country/ nationwide were closed.
• (President Bush gave the Air Force the order to shoot down the air craft that did not respond to orders to land.)

1. 5.     Why was President Bush sent to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha?

• The government/ military figured that the Offut Air Force Base was the safest place for President Bush to be.

1. 6.     Why did President Bush eventually insist on going back to Washington D.C. later that day against the will of the Secret Service?

• President Bush wanted the people to see a functionating government in their capitol, even if the city has been attacked or not. In his opinion it was important to be in the Oval Office during a speech which the whole country was going to see this day.

1. 7.     What was the point of President Bush's message to the nation on the evening of 9-11?

• The Oval Office Speech was close to a declaration of war without being a declaration of war.

1. 8.     Why did President Bush decide not to blame the CIA/FBI for not doing their job?

President Bush said we needed to not look back because we can’t change what happened.

1. 9.     How did President Bush feel when he heard that Osama bin Laden had been killed?

 

• President Bush congratulated President Obama (who told him the News) and the special operators who conducted the mission. He didn’t feel any sense of happiness or jubilation, he felt more a sense of closure and a sense of attitude that justice had been done.  

 

Tuesday

• Watching the end of the 9/11 video
• Comparing the answers of the question on the video
• Starting another video of 9/11

Wednesday

• [e-mail]
• Discussing the posts of the forum post leaders of this week
• Review last Friday
• Video about Railroad workers of the first railroad through whole America
• Continue with “why the people moved west”
  • Hunting/Trapping/Adventure
  • Importance of a Buffalo to the Native Americans
    • 1800-15 million buffalo
    • 1870-1000
    • 2000-260.000
      • Items of a buffalo: pelt for clothing and blankets, tail for decoration and fly swat, hair for pillow and saddle stuffing, clothing, decorations and rope, fat for cooking and making scap, skull for religious rituals, horns for toys, decorations, cooking, utensils and cups, tongue for food, hooves for glue and tools, stomach for buckets and cooking pots, bones for sewing needles, arrowheads, saddle frames, sledge runners, knives and tools, manure for fuel (also known as buffalo chips), meat for cooking, dried (for the winter) or raw, untanned skins for harnesses, belts, rope, ties, string, shields and bags, tanned skins for clothing, tent covers, bags, dolls and saddle blankets, moccasins, tendons for sowing thread and bowstrings
      • Mountain Men (hunt every day, very common in the Rocky Mountains, employed by fur companies, trappers living in the wilderness0
      • US Military (containing the Native Americans in the west=led to many battles called the American Indian wars)

Thursday

• Review Wednesday
• Map of the trans-Mississippi west, posts, tribes and battles of the Indian war
• Cattle Ranching & Cowboys
  • Peaked between 1867-1880
  • Open range (area of land where cattle roam free) = there are still open ranges in the US today
  • Railhead towns (towns at the end of the railroads)
  • Ranchers (people who owned ranches and cattle)
  • Texas longhorns (cross breed of cattle)
  • Long drive (herding and moving cattle) = taking the cattle to market from Texas to Kansas=1000 miles & 3 months
  • Cattle barons (Bigger Ranchers)
  • 25% of cowboys were ex-slaves
  • Life of a cowboy: lonely and dangerous
  • Cattle industry fell when the price of beef fell
  • Longhorn steer (cross breed between the settler’s cattle and the Mexican cattle)
  • Map of cattle trails (Railroads and Cowboy routes)
  • Cowtown, Dodge city, Kansas “what happens in Kansas stays in Kansas”
    • Drinking
    • Gambling
    • Lots of money to spent
    • Fights
    • Prostitution
    • Gunfights/Duels
    • Old western legend about these gunfights           
    • Wyatt Earp
    • Video about Wyatt Earp and Dodge City
    • Videos about gunfights at the Ok Canal, Arizona

Friday

• Pop quiz
• Omaha Stockyards
  • Nothing left today- existed till the 90’s
  • Farmers/ranchers bring their cows and load them on the train
  • Central, where the railroads are, right on the water
  • Kansas City Stockyards
    • Building is still there (Offices)
    • Why were long drives necessary?
      • To sell their cattle
      • Why did the long drives came to an end after 15-20 years?
        • More railroads
        • Farmers put an end because they didn’t want all the cattle to walk thorough their fields
        • Video about the American west, cattle trail 1897