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Mr. Halls U.S.History Page . Here you will find notes, class assignments, project information, and answers to any questions you or your parents may have throughout the year to help in your studies of United States History. Each unit will have it's own page with key terms, key people, important geographic information, and review questions to prepare for the unit exam.

Any questions please email me at merlehall@macon.k12.mo.us.

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 * __ Current Unit of Study (Era): __**


 * Chapter 14 - A Spirit of Change
 * Chapter 15 - The Nation Breaking Apart

__** Currently (Week of March 23, 2015) **__


 * Chapter 14 Quizlets on Moodle
 * Chapter 15 Quizlets on Moodle
 * Begin MAP Review - Monday - Friday

__** Next Week (Week of March 30, 2015) **__


 * Begin 4th 9 Weeks
 * [[file:chapter 14 creating america.pdf|Chapter 14 ]]section 3
 * [[file:Section 4.pdf|Chapter 14]] section 4
 * [[file:Section 1.pdf|Chapter 15]] section 1
 * [[file:15Section 2.pdf|Chapter 15]] section 2
 * [[file:15Section 3.pdf|Chapter 15]] section 3
 * [[file:15section 4.pdf|Chapter 15]] section 4

Presentation on "Reformation" "Political and social stresses push a new nation to the Breaking point." due April 8 Students will create a video project that covers the different parts of the following Chapters. The Video can be either a debate or a news broadcast. If doing a debate remember to set it up with the buzzers and have 2 teams of debaters. Students will bring up both sides of the issue being debated. Students on the "pro" team will be in favor of the issue and the "con" team will be against it. For example; Those in favor of immigration and those against it. Your goal is to convince the other team that your point of view is the correct one to be chosen.

Students making a news broadcast remember to include the Who, What, When, Where, Why and how of the issue. Each news broadcast should cover 3-5 issues from the chapters. A good news broadcast includes in studio and on site reporters, interviews from main characters, and details about the issue being discussed. You should also make sure to explain why this is an important topic for the viewers to learn about. Be sure to include video excerpts, audio, charts, graphs, and maps when appropriate; for the debates you can put up images and clips as items to be debated.

Each presentation should include at least 5 from the following list of topics that can be discussed: It will be easier to make the video if you keep your 5 selections from one section of the chapter. For example chapter 14 select people of events about immigration and reforming labor, The spirit of revival, womens rights, reforming education, and utopian societies or the Abolitionist and theunderground railroad. etc. from chapter 15 Wilmot proviso, Missouri compromise, fugitive slave act and Frederick Douglas, Or Lincoln Douglas debates, election of 1856, Dred Scott, or election of 1860, and secession.
 * William Lloyd Garrison
 * Nat Turner
 * Frederick Douglas
 * Harriett Tubman
 * David Walker
 * Harriett Beacher Stowe -Uncle Toms Cabin
 * The underground railroad.
 * Abolitionist movement
 * Abe Lincoln
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Missouri Compromise
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Henry Clay
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Stephen Douglas
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Mexican American War
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Immigration in the 1800's
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">labor issues, and reformation of child labor and education, and workers rights.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">The second Great Awakening, compared to the first.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Bloody Kansas' and its effect on the flames of Civil War.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">James Fenimoore Cooper
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Longfellow
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Emerson
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Thoreau
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">transcendentalist, and civil disobedience
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Walt Whitman
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">John Brown and Harpers Ferry.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">the Temperance societies,
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Lucretia Mott
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Sojourner of truth
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Susan B. Anthony
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Utopian societies
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">how these drove the union apart
 * Wimot Proviso of 1846
 * Compromise of 1850
 * Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
 * Election of 1860
 * Fugitive Slave act
 * Book Uncle Toms Cabin
 * Concept of popular Sovereignty
 * Case of Dred Scott


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">The republican party formation
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Lincoln Douglas debate

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">**SECTION 1** The Hopes of Immigrants <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">**SECTION 2** American Literature and Art <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">** SECTION 3 ** Reforming American Society <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">**SECTION 4** Abolition and Women's Rights <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">** SECTION 1 ** Growing Tensions Between North and South <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">**SECTION 2** The Crisis Deepens <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">** SECTION 3 ** Slavery Dominates Politics <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">** SECTION 4 ** Lincoln's Election and Southern Secession

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">A script is due April 6. Turn it in on moodle. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">Turn in a team Contract this week Mar. 23 due by Fri. on moodle <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">Turn in a daily log each day. on moodle <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">There is a forum for sharing and discussion on moodle.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.6000003814697px;">Hmmm Why don't we just use moodle where you can get the assignments, work collaboratively, and turn in your work all in one place.