9/10-9/14 8th hour

9/10-9/15

Monday

- Test today

Tuesday

- Finished test

- 9/11 video

Wednesday

Reading to kids

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

Stay calm

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

Because there could’ve been another attack

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

Airports will be closed, no more flights up, any flights already up will be forced down if they do not come down they will be shot down

There was a bunker with a great communication system so he could do his presidential

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

So he could give a speech from his own office and not give the attackers the satisfaction that he was hiding away

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

That freedom had been attacked, and that those attackers would be brought to justice

He wanted to look forward, not backwards, and didn’t want to point fingers. He needed these organizations to get information looking forward

He felt relieved and grateful that justice had been done

Thursday

Moving West: Manifest destiny

Manifest destiny - the belief that Americans had a god-given right to take over the west
Key Questions
Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains/West?

Describe a cowboy’s life
Describe the importance of the buffalo to Native Americans and how the buffalo were destroyed
How did the US deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800s? What were their policies

A lot of people bypassed the Great Plains because of the lack of structure(called the great “desert of America”)
As you go further west there is less and less rain
Some of the biggest resources to make money were sheep herding, cattle ranching, farming
The Homestead Act gave 160 acres of land to anyone who was willing to go out West and farm
Thousands of people took advantage of the Homestead Act
A lot of rich people saw this and instead of planting fields, they just sat on it so the prices would go up and they could sell the land later
Gold and silver mining was a very popular way of earning money
There were a lot of people who came who worked on the Railroad
There were hunters and trappers that came west as well as adventurers
Mountain men came to the west and adventured, living in the Mountains and off of the land
Another reason people came to the West was the be in the Military and fight Native Americans in the Plains Wars

Cattle Ranching and Cowboys

During the open range time there were very few fences and cattle roamed free
Ranchers had to drive cattle long distances
Eventually post civil war railroads were built and there was no more need to drive cattle
Peaked between 1867-1880
Very romanticized period of time in US history
Life was lonely and dangerous
Why was life dangerous? There were Native American attacks, there weren’t many other people, snakes and wild animals could harm you, sometimes stampedes were caused which resulted in cows dying which lost the cowboys money
25% were former slaves
Longhorn steer was the most common type of cow driven
Cowtowns were the destinations of cattle drivers where cattle would be sold
Cowtowns would have several different types of stores
When they were in Cowtowns:
Lots of money to be spent
Drinking
Gambling
Fights
Prostitution
Gunfights/Duels (quick and unorganized, no one is standing around watching)
Took the law into their own hands

FRIDAY-

We watched a movie

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