This weeks blog assignment is on 9-11. There are four items in which you need to research.1. What happened on 9-11-01 in detail.2. What do you remember about that day?3. Who was responsible for the attack and why did they do this4. What did the US do in response to the attack?8th grade review quiz.1.Describe Native American cultures before and after the arrival of the Europeans.2.Describe reasons why Europeans started exploring in the late 1400’s.3.List the major countries(including main explorers) that explored the New World and where they settled.christopher columbust was thefirst to discover theamericas.4.Describe reasons why Europeans came over from Europe and problems they faced.cashcrop, cheepland, problems like desises, native americans, weather and weather.5.Describe the impact the French and Indian War had on the American colonies.french, indiand and the british faut in it the british one it and took over.6.Describe the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War.no taxation without reperatensation, the boston tea part helped lead to it.7.Describe the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and what it talked about.we declared independence.8.Describe the set up of the Articles of Confederation and why it failed as a government.9.Describe what the US Constitution does(including amendments).sets up out government has the branches, and protects peoples rights.10.Describe the causes and effects of the Texas War for Independence.mexico opend up to texans but they had to follow there ruls and had to be or become catholic. texansare more independent.11.Describe the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War.-we attacked mexico.12.Describe how the US grew as a nation.-us defeted grat brittan and got u.s, got luisiana puchase from france, 1821 we puchansed florda from mexico, oregon teritory wasgiven by great britan, 1853 the gadsen purchase.13.Describe reasons people moved westward in the early parts of our history and the problems they faced.-people moved west for cheap land gold, silver, and furr traping14.Describe some new technologies/inventions that came about in the 1800's that changed the face of the US forever.-cotton gin- helped seperate cottton seed to make clothing faster, steel plow- better crops and was faster, the mini ball- was a better bullet and was more accurate.15.Describe how the North and South developed differently.northe focused on industry and south focused on agriculture.16.Describe major events, compromises and incidents leading up to the Civil War.-Compromise of 1820, Compromise of 1850, popular sovereignty, Dred Scott Case, John Brown's Raid, Lincoln's election, South's secession.they had an isssue with slavery. john browns raid- he was thinking that he would get thousands of slaves to fight but that did not happen and his suns were killed in the fight and he was later on caught and hung.17.Describe the North's and South's goals in the Civil War.norths goals was to unify the country again, ending slaverywasalso a goal. the souths goal was to maintain slavery.18.Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War.the north had the most advantages percentage weise19.Describe what Reconstruction did to the South and the rest of the country.the south was destroyesd so president linkon wanted to rebuildBe able to give examples of stories from the video. For example, when asked what problems people faced moving west(#13), mentioning the Donner party would be great!
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