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tuesday aug 24

1.describe the culture of native americans before the europen arive.

not wasteing natural resoucses that they have use everything.

the older you got the more respect you got younger would listin to olders.

lived off the land and alot were nomatic.

they c

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The History of U.S. Political Parties

Believe it or not, the Republican and Democratic Parties we know and love today have not always been what we know them to be. In fact, the first two U.S. parties ever created were Federalist and Democratic-Republican.

When George Washington was electe

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declaration of independence

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The United States Declaration of Independence was a statement that announced the thirteen colonies independence. One of the major points of the Declaration of Independence is that all men possess certain unalienable rights like life, liberty, and the
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Causes and Effects of the Texas War for Independence

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Causes and Effects of the Texas War for Independence

The Texas War for Independence was basically caused by conflict between the Mexican rulers and the American settlers in the Texan territory.

It all started when the Mexican government extended an inv

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1st blog- 8th grade review

Missouri compromise act of 1820

The Missouri Compromise Act of 1820 was an attempt to keep the free states and slave states balanced out. In this act they came to an agreement that if the south wanted Missouri as a slave state then the north got Maine

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Monday August 23

Native American cultures before and after the European settlers arrived.

Before European settlers came to America the Native American cultures were very basic. Live off the land don't take any more than what you need. They had never tried to advance i

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It's just...a soul tugging urge I guess...

A 51 year old who had suffered all her life with bi-polar disorder and had recently started suffering a non-termanal leukaimia, decided that time was against her. Apon making this decision, she wanted to live life to the fullest and to attempt everyt

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Incidents Leading Up to the Civil War

One main reason that started this war was the different economies. The north had a lot of factories, they manufactured what the south grew. The south was very dependent on agriculture. With eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin it started to beco

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Monday, August 23

The biggest cause of the civil war was slavery. There is so many ways slavery condributes to the civil war. Slavery was so popular there were 3,500,000 slaves in the cival war. States wanted to have there choice to choose weather they wanted slave or

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5 stories for the summer

1. Oil Spill on the Gulf

The Lousiana oil spill was one of the biggest things to happen this summer. The disaster was deemed as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. People and workers have tried just about everything to clean it up--from controlled bu

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August 23, 2010 topic #2 and #4

Exploring in the late 1400’s

Many reasons Europeans started exploring in the late 1400’s s was to, find a sea route to the great spices of Asia, find gold, silvers and many other precious stones, to expand their knowledge of the world and other differ

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The main four countries that settled in the new world was Spain, Portugal, France, and Europe. Some of the explorers were Leif Ericson, who settled in the northern tip of newfoundland.Christopher columbus who explored islands such as

cuba and san salv

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* the reason that people moved westward.

The reason for people moving to the west was for multiple reasons.First off the civil war just ended, and it was a terrible time for them. They were also promised plenty of things. They got offered alot for doing this, like free land. They benifited

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Assigned Blog #1

5. Describe the differences between the New England, Middle and Southern colonies in their development.


New England: (consists of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut) Because it was settled by Puritans, who lef

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Why Europeans Left

The first people to come over to America were those aiding Christopher Columbus in his search for a new route to Asia. About 150 years after Columbus' trip to America, the Native American population decreased by around 80% because of massacres, disea
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The supreme law of the United States is the Constitution of the United States of America. It was created on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania by the Constitution Convention
and ratified by conventions in each U.S state in the name of “T

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