monday - took a test
tuesday - watched a video on 9/11
Wednsday - National Geographic 9-11 Interview With George W. Bush
1. What was President Bush doing when he heard of the attacks?
he was at a school watching their school program
2. According to President Bush, what is the first thing a leader needs to do for the country in times of crisis?
stay calm
3. Why did the Secret Service refuse to allow President Bush to go back to Washington D.C. right away?
they didnt know if their would be another attack
4. What did the US government/military do to to ensure another attack did not occur?
close airports and if their was any planes ground them and if they r still in the air then shoot them down
5. Why was President Bush sent to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha?
cause it had a bunker and good comunications
6. Why did President Bush eventually insist on going back to Washington D.C. later that day against the will of the Secret Service?
so the attackers would not get the advantage on how he would be in a bunker scared
7. What was the point of President Bush's message to the nation on the evening of 9-11?
find who is responsible
8. Why did President Bush decide not to blame the CIA/FBI for not doing their job?
he didnt want them to focus on the past and focus on the future
9. How did President Bush feel when he heard that Osama bin Laden had been killed?
he had a sense of releafe
Ch- 5
Moving West
- moved west because Farming, gold, Natural reasorces
- cattle ranching, and sheep hearding was good in the plains
- the homestead Act was made to give a 160 acres of land
- Gold and silver mining
- working on the railroads and was a big reason why they moved west cause of the west
- Hunting/Trapping /Adventure
- mountain Men: were people that had moved to the mountain and kind lived like the native americans
manifest destiney- the god given right to move west?
key questions?
why did settlesrs/people move to the great plains/ West?
describe a cowboys life?
describe the importance of the bufflalo to Native americans and how the buffalo were destroyed?
how did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800s? What were their policies?
ch - 6
Industrial Revolution
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