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Today we took the Canada Test.
The Panama Canal is a 48 mile long adjoinment of the Antlantic and Pacific oceans. Taking 10 years to build (1904-1914) the canal has been named one of the seven modern wonders of the world and has moved over 815,000 ships. 
Although the canal was not
In the Philippine-American War, there was a time were the Americans went around killing Filipinos. Some People in Philippine want to call it a Genocide. The Definition of "Genocide" is as follows: "The deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole
The Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a 48 mile ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. The Panama Canal is used alot for international trading. The ships travel through the canal to import and export items. The process of t
The American Anti-Imperialist League
The Anti-Imperialist League was an organization formed on June 15, 1898 in the United States of America. It was established to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area. An insular area
The Panama Canal is a 48 mile ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama in Central America. It was built from 1904 to 1914 by the U.S. Government.
The US was not the first to think of building a canal across Panama. In 1534, Charles V ordered a survey o
Welcome to the year 1901, a time where Britian and the United States sign a treaty knowns as the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901. This treaty stated that Britian and the U.S. would share the rights to a canal that cut across Central America, providing
Approximately 1,500 years ago, Polynesians from the Marquesas Islands, landed on Hawaii. They migrated to the big island canoeing over 2,000 miles with only stars to guide them. About 500 years later people from Tahiti arrived. They brought with them
Major Battles of Mexican-American War:
The Battle of Veracruz was a 20 day siege of the Mexican seaport Veracruz. The US was backed by 12,000 troops, and Mexico had 3,360 troops. 13 Americans were killed and 55 were wounded. 350 Mexican troops were ki
We worked on assigned blogs and studied for test.
Francisco "Pancho" Villa was born in San Juan del Río, Durango in 1877. He spent most of his life in Durango until, when he was 16, he picked up a pistol and shot the landowner who raped his sister. His name was Pancho Villa, but after this tramatic
William H. Seward
He was born on May 16, 1801. He died on October 10, 1872. William was 12th Governor of New York, U.S. Senator. U.S. Secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. In 1867, Seward arranged for the U.S. to buy Alaska from
In 1867, William Seward was an early supporter of expanding the United States. He arranged for the U.S to purchase Alaska for $7.2 Million Dollars!! (That's alot for us normal people). At first, Seward had trouble getting the House of Representatives
