11/22/19

Same as 11/21 entry.

11/21/19

1) Notes ("Mexico Will Poison Us")-Part 2
2) Go over Test 2 info (See details on Google Classroom)
3) Finish video; discuss/hand in notes

4) Homework: Pre-Civil War Reader, pages 78-103 ("An Empire for Slavery")
Focus your reading on:  a) Northern and Southern reactions to the Fugitive Slave Act  b) Uncle Tom's Cabin

11/20/19

Same as 11/19 entry.

11/19/19

1) Notes ("From the Halls of Montezuma") and ("Mexico Will Poison Us")-Part 1
2) Video: "Empire Upon the Trails"
--Take 2 pages of section notes:
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)

11/18/19

Same as 11/15 entry.

11/15/19

1) Notes ("Manifest Destiny")
2) OPVL Pre-Civil War...Graded Sharing
--Each person needs to share at least twice on Values/Limitations (5 points)
--Assignment graded on Google Classroom (30 points)

3) Hand out Pre-Civil War Readers; read pages 3-5; 47-64 ("From the Halls of Montezuma") and ("Mexico Will Poison Us")-Part 1
Focus your reading on:  a) Gen. Winfield Scott  b) Wilmot Proviso  c) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo  d) Free-Soil Movement  e) Election of 1848  f) Popular sovereignty

11/14/19

Same as 11/13 entry.

11/13/19

1) Notes ("Colonization") and ("Abolitionism")
2) OPVL Pre-Civil War assignment (Day 2)
--Due on Google Classroom at the start of the next class.

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 368-376 ("Manifest Destiny")
Focus your reading on:  a) Manifest Destiny  b) "Fifty-four forty or fight!"  c) James Polk

11/12/19

Same as 11/7 entry.

11/7/19

1) Notes ("The Slave South: A Distinctive Society")--not connected to a homework reading
2) OPVL on Pre-Civil War Views on Slavery (Day 1)
--On Google Classroom
--Use OPVL Guidelines Packet

3) Homework: Textbook, pages 262; 352-358 ("Colonization") and ("Abolitionism")
Focus your reading on:  a) American Colonization Society  b) Nat Turner's Rebellion  c) William Lloyd Garrison  d) Theodore Dwight Weld/Angelina Grimke  e) "Gag Rule"

11/6/19

Same as 11/5 entry.

11/5/19

1) "Double Notes" ("The Jacksonian Presidency") and
("Class, Culture, and the 2nd Party System") and ("Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!")
Focus Terms for extra notes: Textbook, pages 330-335; 338
a) 2nd Party System (Democrats vs. Whigs)  b) Panic of 1837  c) Election of 1840/William Henry Harrison  d) John Tyler's presidency

2) No homework reading

11/4/19

Same as 11/1 entry.

11/1/19

1) Video: "Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil, and the Presidency"
--Take section notes (2 pages): a) The Slave Master  b) The Candidate  c) The First Imperial Presidency  d) The Defender of the Union  e) The Great White Father  f) The Prophet

2) Same homework reading assignment as last class.