MONDAY--MARCH 14

US History
EQ:
How did manifest destiny impact settlers and Native Americans?

CW:
return/discuss Unit 2 exam
preview Unit 3
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origins of Manifest Destiny (primary source analysis)
quick recap of the early years of westward expansion
OR Trail; Mexican-American War (1846-47); Donner Party; Transcontinental RR
notes: Homestead Act of 1862
video clips: Frontier House

HW:
read pp. 410--14 (stop at Cattle Becomes a Big Business)
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IB HOTA
EQ:
To what extent was Reconstruction a true social and political revolution?


CW:
video clip: Radical Republicans and the the goals of Congressional/Radical Reconstruction (1866--72)
Congressional Reconstruction:
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Reconstruction Act of 1867
1867--President Johnson impeached
1868:
14th Amendment ratified--1868
U.S. Grant wins the presidency
sharecropping contract--"slavery without the whip" 
Klan Enforcement Acts
1870--15th Amendment ratified
video clip from Many Rivers on the impact on the 15th Amendment
Undoing of Reconstruction
Amnesty Act of 1872
Financial Panic of 1873 and its impact on Northern support for Reconstruction
(video clip from Reconstruction DVD)
Election of 1876
Hamburg Massacre in South Carolina
Compromise of 1877 and home rule for the South
Supreme Court rules against Reconstruction
Redeemers and "the Lost Cause"

HW:
Jim Crow Era reading
Stop reading at DuBois and Washington