10/13/16

I.B. History of the Americas:

1) Notes ("From the Halls of Montezuma") and ("Mexico Will Poison Us")-Part 1
2) Video: "Empire Upon the Trails" (Take 2 pages of notes on given topics):
a) Texas  b) Whitmans  c) Native Americans  d) Mormons

3) Homework: Pre-Civil War Reader (pages 64-77) ("Mexico Will Poison Us")-Part 2
Focus your reading on:  a) California Gold Rush  b) Compromise of 1850 (Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Stephen A. Douglas)  c) "Common property" doctrine (John C. Calhoun--page 65)