Schools out – This site will be still be maintained

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

School is out which means this site is no longer needed. I’ll keep up the site anyways but nothing new will be posted to it. Enjoy your winter break and hope this site helped you! – 冬休み

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Original History Notes – 12/1/11

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Original History Notes – 12/1/11

All history 1 students will take first part of exam

15 multiple choice

Some are not worded clear

Couple answer for you

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Era good feelings – A peaceful politics time, President Monroe – 1 Political party in power

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Final Exam Study Page is up

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The comprehensive final exam study guide page is up here’s how to access it:

  • From computer – On the menu-bar you’ll see a “Final Exam” link.
  • From a cell phone – Click the down arrow on the top right of the page to access the menu and click “Final Exam”
  • From here – if you want, you can just click here to take you to the page

This page lists every term that was on the official Final Exam study guide, each term is given comprehensive information and direct links to other places both on this site and elsewhere on the web along with some short descriptions for each term. It also declares when the term was discussed in class in case you want to search your own notes and goes into helpful details over the short answers and the essay.

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Elaborated History Notes 11/29/11

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History Notes 11/29/11

Confederate States of America

  • The definition of a Confederacy is a lose association of states very similar to the articles of confederation.
  • The confederacy was a disaster from the beginning and the states often didn’t get along
  • Florida was added to the confederacy but not much people lived there so it was pretty much unimportant
  • The states who joined were
  • South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida
  • The one and only president of the CSA was Jefferson Davis since he was most qualified at that time
  • Many states were caught in the middle of this split and were being forced to choose sides

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    Original Notes 11/29/11

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    Taking day off today??? Really bad day t take off. Everyone bailed out on us.

    We’re goi9ng to do today, intrduce civil war. I hav tpo take my little one to the doctor – class 30 minutes, 30minutes. Thursday fight civil war and review. Make-up tests Thursday after class. People need to makeup test aren’t here anyway so I might as well be talking to the wall.

    Anyone build a snwman, we had a good bit in Hjernando….

    Me and my 2 year old made a snowman.

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    Last year we finally split the union apart

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    Notes – 11/22/11

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    History Notes 11/21/2011

    Caning of Sumner

    • 3 Principle Players
    • William Sumner
    • Senator from Massachusetts
  • Andrew Butler, the aging senator from South Carolina
  • Preston Books, nephew of Andrew Butler and member of House of Representatives from South Carolina

    • Caning of Sumner – 3 majors figures involved in this event. Take place in senate chambers – involves these 3 men.

    What Happens, Charles sumner from Massachutes is going to get up and deliver speech about evil of slavery and how it’s tthe root of all problems. He takes it too far, he starts pointing fingers at different people. For southern men at time period – honor was most important. What sumner has done is insulted Andrew Butlers honor.

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    Elaborated Notes – 11/17/11

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    History Notes 11/17/11

    (You can view the original notes here)

    Notes before class:

    • The final exam is on Thursday Dec. 8th @ 12:30 pm located in the same room
    • Bring scan-tron
    • Ensure you get there even if your very sick, it’s very difficult on everyone for makeup exams.

    Compromise of 1850

    • The compromise of 1850 was suppose to prevent the civil war but failed to solve anything and created more problems than needed
    • The compromise brings on these questions
    • What do we do with California?
    • What do we do with Slavery in Washington DC?
    • What do we do with runaway slaves?
    • among other question
  • California becomes a free state which permanently offsets the balance of free states to slave states
  • The Missouri compromise is pretended to never happen
    • The line at 36 degrees and 36 minutes never happened
  • People hated the slave market in Washington so the compromise shut it down, no new slaves but you could keep your existing ones.
  • The third one is important and has to do with the fugitive slave laws which makes things worse.
    • Before 1850, if a slave crossed to the north he was free. The fugitive slave law made is quite easy for slaves to be returned to the south.
    • There were people called a professional slave catcher or “bounty hunter” that would go up North with a description of the slave, pick the guy out, and bring him to court (he may or may not be the slave or even a slave in general).
    • A lot of people quickly grew to dislike the bounty hunters
  • This also introduced corruption into the court system
    • The judge got paid 5 times more for each case he ruled in the south’s favor rather than him rule in the slaves favor.
  • People who were born and raised in the North were being brought down as runaway slaves to the south.
  • All this leads to a lot more people to join the abolitionist and call for an end to all of this
  • Many Northerners were constantly worried about getting kidnapped and mistaken for runaway slaves.
    • Signs were posted everywhere to strongly caution people to be very weary of who they talk to because it might be a bounty hunter.

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    Original Notes – 11/17/11

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    History Notes 11/17/11

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    We have a lot of people out today, today must be skip day.

    Final Exam:

    Thursday Dec. 8th @ 12:30 pm, so, regular class time, regular room.

    Bring scan-tron and unless your runover by truck, try your absolute best to get here. Make-up final exams are a massive headache.

    If you come here and tell me you weren’t feeling good, then I’m going to come up, with a final exam, so hard you’ll never pass it even with your book and me sitting there next to you. No I’m just kidding but try and make it here.

    Didn’t mean to put out grumpy vibe today, maybe it’s the cold weather. Alright… Very Good…

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    By the time we hit 1850, we are on a big and fast collision course with the civil war. The compromise of 1850 was designed to put those issues to rest but we’re going to see is not only does it fail to solve anything, it’s going to create more problems than it solves.

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    Elaborated Notes – 11/15/11

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    History Notes – 11/15/11

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    Notes before class starts:

    • Book Reviews due November 29th
    • For your final exam – bring a scan-tron
    • The finals maybe on Thursday but he’s not entirely sure
    • The final exam will be like any other test, only a little easier
    • The first part is multiple choice but given by the school to all history students and not by the teacher.
    • The essay will be on tracing events lead to the civil war
  • Makeup test will be given out on December 1st so if you have no makeup tests you can do other things
  • He will publish the study guide to Blackboard soon for the Final Exam

    • The Move West:

    • As the United States was pushing to the Pacific, thousands of settlers were making the Journey westward
    • They left to start new lives, cheap land, adventure, or to avoid troubles. “GTT”

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    Original Notes – 11/15/11

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    History Notes – 11/15/11

    (You can view the elaborated notes here)

    The Move West

    • As the United States was pushing to the Pacific, thousands of settlers were making the journey westward.
    • They left to start new lives, cheap land, adventure, or to avoid troubles. “GTT”

    Book Reviews due November 29th

    We’ll talk about “GTT” in a second. It’s not a car.

    Alright, one other reminder. For your final exam – bring a scantron. Uh… Thursday of exam day may be your finals. We’ll check on that later on today.

    The fianl exam is going to be like the other tests.

    • 1st part is multiple choice – easy but given by the school not the teacher
    • Essay – tracing events leading to civil war

    Miss test 1 or 2 make it up on December 1st. If you didn’t skip test then go eat lunch somewhere during that time.

    Finals is easier of the tests.

    • Aztecs
    • Colonial Exchange

    It’ll be in your study-guide coming soon on blackboar.

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    The MExican war completes manifest-destiny. Talk a little bit about the people that move west. The groups that want to avoid trouble – 1845 very different world – very easy to hide from trouble. If broke law you could easily escape to another town.

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