We continued to talk about blogs today.1. Exploration and Colonization2. Revolutionary War3. Westward Expansion4, Industrial Revolution of the early 1800's5. Civil War and ReconstructionSome major causes of the civil war were Abraham Lincoln getting elected because the south thought that he was going to abolish slavery. Another cause was the Fugitive Slave Act, it made it so that slaves in the north were not free and they could be forced into slavery.The Oregon Trail was the best way to travel west. The pioneers put all their belongings in connestoga wagons that were pulled by oxen or horses. It made it a lot easier to go across the U.S, but it was still very hard.Robert E. Lee lived in Arlington, Virginia, right across from Washington D.C. When the Union was fighting, they some of their dead there, and when Lee left his home, they made it into the National Cemetery.We also watched the fourth episode of America the Story of Us.
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