Tuesday September 6th

[4Chancey]

On this day we continued reviewing for the 8th Grade Review Test on Thursday. Mr. Bruns informed us that the 2nd Assigned Blog is over 9-11-01 for the tenth anniversary. He also told us what it should include, such as who done it, where we were, what we remember, etc. We then moved on to the review. The first question was over westward expansion. The main reasons were better land and riches in the land. Also religious freedom, getting away from the coast, adventure, farming and hunting. Manifest destiny was perhaps the biggest reason. They did face many problems, including not finding what they came for, weather, disease, lack of food, transportation issues, animal attacks, and native americans. Next we covered inventions from the early 19th century, including the Cotton Gin and its advantages and disadvantages, steam engine, trains, telegraph/morse code, advanced weapons, and assembly lines in factories and other devices. After that, the division of the country, including slaves vs. no slaves, foods and production powerhouses, industry in the north and very little industry in the south, and city and port sizes. Then we moved on to the Missouri Compromise, over Missouri becoming a slave state, and Maine becoming a free state. This drew a line of 36 30, where anything north of the line was free and anything south of the line. Then the Compromise of 1850, where California became a free state, creating popular sovereignty in territories, with each state deciding whether they would be slave or not, The Fugtive Slave Law, making free slaves return to the south, enabling Washington D.C. having slavery, and banning slave trade in Washington D.C. We took a closer look at popular sovereignty, including Bleeding Kansas. Then we moved on to 1857 with The Dred Scott Case. After that we covered John Brown's raid. After concluding with this topic we talked about Lincoln's election, and the south seceding, and Fort Sumter. Then the broad topic of The Civil War. We covered the north's goals: bringing the south back, and in later years ending slavery, and the south's goals: to preserve their way of life by keeping slavery. Then we talked about advantages of both sides:North: Great leader, communication, railroads, factories, population, more states, money, farm acerage, iron production, medical advantages.South: Knowing the land, exports, better generals, better cause.We stopped here and Mr. Bruns talked about what we are doing tomorrow.