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
- Great Plains & why did settlers/ people move there/west? (middle America)
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