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Ch. 5.1: -Describe Native American culture- the western tribes hunted and gathered food. They traveled to find animals. -Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains? - They wanted to own land. Migrants moved westward along the railroad and wagon

Presidential election of 2012-

There are 2 main candidates, the incumbent, Barack Obama (D), and Mitt Romney (R). the outcome of this year’s election will depend on several main issues. A primary issue will be re-distribution of wealth, taxing the up

Romney doesn't care about the poor and the 47% of the country that are freeloading, lazy, handout addicted citizens that he does can not relate with nor has the time to. He will need to relate to the 5-10% that are independent.

The U.S. ambassador  was killed with 3 other Americans. They were killed because of the a video that was anti- Islam.  Before this week we were told that the video was a protest over an anti-Islam video.  They were killed and the house they stayed in

More then 2/3 of the Americans support the troops and are ready for the war to end and them to come. 62 percent said troop levels should be decreased immediately. 38 percent want large numbers to return from Afghanistan within a year; 24 percent said

Arizona Law.

-- they made laws on immagration.

Today is current events day. We watched a video describing why the video, "Innocence of Muslims", has caused such a ruckus. The video describes that not every Muslim thinks the same thing. It is only a group of radicals.

Next, Ambassador Stevens knew

 before this week we were told that the cuase for the attack was protest over a video that was a anti-islam.   was last week attack in Libya that killed a U.S ambassador and other Americans that was called a act of terrorism. This terrorist attack ha

Withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan

Obama announced that all 33,000 troops he sent to Afghanistan in December 2009 are to be home by September 2012. These troops are home.  10,000 troops came back a while ago and the other 23,000 troops came back be

Withdrawal of US troops.

After the withdrawal there are still 68,000. The number of U.S. forces there peaked at about 101,000 last year, and they have been coming out slowly over the past several months.

our group is gonna be given a top and we our group will present it. Then we will have study hall the last ten minutes.

it was about that 47% of the people don't pay taxes so who ever is going to provide them health care is who they are gonna vote. So

The presidential election for 2012 will be held on Tuesday November 6, 2012. It will be the incumbent president Barack Obama who will be running for his 2nd and final term. He is a democrat and his running mate is Joe Biden. He is running against the

the processs is regulated by the federal and state laws. the election of the president and vice president is and indirect vote. the election will be held between november 2nd and 8th.

Like most fashion, it started as something famous people did like royalty and then spread to the masses

The presidential elections  are coming up and there between republican canidate mit romney and democratic barak obama.

Obama's drawdown plan only removes roughly half the number of troops that he introduced into Afghanistan.

“I said we would begin winding down our commitments in Afghanistan and make sure that Afghans are taking responsibility for their own security, a

The Mitt Romney video about the 47% was a secret video. And he pretty much said that 47% of people depend on the government and he will never convince them to vote for him. He just has to convince the other 5% percent to vote for him to win. About 47

Ch. 5.1:

-Describe Native American culture.   Osage&Iowa Indian Tribes settled in small villages. Lived near the Lower Mississippi. They hunted&planted crops. Western trubes were nomadic (sioux&cheyenne) Hunted&gathered. Nomad-  travelers. Spanish inr

Today we did more presentations

-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
droughts, floods, fire, blizzards, locust plaques, raids by native americans and outlaws, little air and light in the soddies, and they leaked constantly,
-What

Ch. 5.2:

-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains? so that people would want to go out west to settle the land. and the railroads helped so that people could get out there

-What challenges did settlers face on the Great