Today we are doing blog discussions. Mr. Bruns talked us through some technical difficulties.You can choose to research any topic that falls under one of the following main topics:1. Exploration and Colonization2. Revolutionary War3. Westward Expansion4, Industrial Revolution of the early 1800's5. Civil War and Reconstruction--Kendra: Patrick Henery- born in 1736 in virginia- originally wanted to be in politics and stay in business but that failed for him and became a lawyer- gave his speech " Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"--Zach: Battles at Lexinton and Concord- was a build up of the battles- MA has stored weapons- the brittish caught wind of the supplies so they were sending out secret orders to collect the supplies- general washingtons spies heard what britain was gonna do--Megan: Womens Rights in the War- Betsy Ross was the maker of the first American flag- durring the boycott women made their own prouducts- Ester orginized a fundraiser to help but eventually died- Sarah Franklin made little wax figures with information in them and gave them out- a lot of women worked as spies- Debora Hansen dressed as a man--Sidney: Boston Tea Party- taken place in December- colonists went out to the ships and dumped all the tea into the harbor because they were mad about the tax going up- "No Taxation without Representation"- they felt that the colonists should be taxed cuz the war was for them- there was 114 containers of tea and dumped 90lbs of it into the harbor- they dressed as native americans- they closed the boston harbor and it was one of the biggest harbors back then- tea kept coming up in the harbor--Ashton: Valley Forge- 20 miles away from philidelphia- george washingtons army built log huts to protect and built a bridge over the river- over the winter there was diseases going around- 2/3 of the 2000 men died from these diseases- Stouven made the camp more sanitary and came to help train the army so they became stronger- when the british heard they went to france the british went to new york- battled at yorktown and washintons army won--Jordan: George Washington- born on Feb 22- he was the leader of the French and Indian war- fought with the British- became general of teh continental army- he came up with the idea in valley forge to take the small pox and immuninize the people- he took his army accross the delaware river to suprise attack the british- he was elected to be president in May--Taylor: Boston Tea Party- dumped 314 crates into the harbor--Taylor F: Boston Tea Party--Kenzie: Oregan Trails- oregan trail was the most known- best land rout there- with out that trail the west would probably be canada or mexico- used for 25 years- 650000 peple traveled west and the first people to use it developed it- another thing that atracted them was weat- a lot died from disease, indian attacks, animals- traveled 12 - 15 miles a day and some walked the whole way- the Morman Trail goes to Salt Lake City UT- two big movements of mormans
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