Sept 4th-Sept 8th

Monday

Labor day

Tuesday

  • Discussion about the posts of the forum leaders
  • Reconstruction 1865-1877 (repetition)
  • Amendments(repetition)
  • Freedmen’s bureau (repetition)
  • Carpetbaggers (repetition)
  • Scalawags (southern born white republican)
  • Jim Crow laws
  • Election of 1876: Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel J. Tilden
    • Tilden won the popular vote and was leading the electrical vote
    • Four states had disputed results (Florida, South Carolina..)
    • The end of Reconstruction 1877
      • Compromise
      • Unwritten deal between northern and southern politicians
      • Hayes “won” the election

Wednesday

Group test about unit 1

Thursday

Continuing with group test

Friday

  • Discussing class rules with Mrs Burns
  • Moving west:
    • Great Plains & why did settlers/ people move there/west? (middle America)
      • Manifest destiny
      • Cattle ranching
      • Sheepherding
      • Farming
      • Homestead Act (families got free land when they’d move west)
      • Gold and Silver Mining
      • Working on the railroad (union pacific (started in Omaha) & central pacific+ Transcontinental railroad)/ Chinese and Irish workers: Immigrants
      • Describe a cowboy’s life
      • The importance of the buffalo to Native Americans
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