MONDAY--FEBRUARY 23

Honors US History
EQ:
What were the political and social effects of westward expansion in the mid-1800s?

CW:
notes: Manifest Destiny
Donner Party video clip (TBD)
Mormons
election of 1844: James K. Polk vs. Henry Clay
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notes: Mexican-American War--1846-47
map of the war
video clip: statehood debate over California (from The Abolitionists)

HW:
Text pp. 385-91
Pay attention to the Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown, Dred Scott decision
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US History
EQ:
What were the political, social, and economic effects of industrialization and immigration in the late 1800s?

CW:
discuss immigration (15:1)
immigration powerpoint--first wave immigration
nativism in the past:
Chinese Exclusion Act--small group activity
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immigration debate continues today:
video clip from In Search of America on immigration
video clips:
Morgan Spurlock picking oranges in Florida
Herman Cain's electric fence joke
Senator McCain: complete the 'dang' fence ad
Two faces of illegal immigration
Jose Vargas 
discussion: should we repeal part of the 14th Amendment?

HW:
review notes