11/26/18

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 the following 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, and Stephen A. Douglas)  c) "Common Property" Doctrine (John C. Calhoun's philosophy on page 65)


American Pop Culture:

1) 1970s Oral History due

2) Graded Sharing of Oral Histories