civil war

1. Use evidence to describe the economic impact of casino ownership and gambling on Native American tribes.
Some people might think that Indians make a lot of money with gambling and casinos. But thats not so true only 557 tribes own casinos and only 48 make more then $10 million a year. the Indians that don't own any casinos are living in poverty. They have the highest rate of poverty and disease of any ethnic group in America.

2. What is the most significant problem of trying to understand the condition of the modern Native American population?
There is just to many of them who all belong to more then 500 different tribes. They all have different problems and ways of living and they all have different background stories.

3. In what ways are Native Americans a unique minority group in the United States? Do these reasons seem justified?
They are unique because they all have different stories and different ways of living.

4. Please find 4 specific examples of the sorts of events generalized in this paragraph. For each specific example, include a hyperlink to a website explaining the specific event, and a summary of that event.
forcing them onto reservations
permitting them to own land collectively
dispatching their children to boarding schools hundreds of miles from home
outlawing practice of their religions

5. What is meant by the phrase 'diseases of the poor'? What is the relationship between economics and health implied by that phrase?
It means circle of infection and its about the people that have a bad economy and are living the poor life. these people are more able to get HIV aids and different diseases.

6. Is John McCain correct in his assessment of the treatment of Native Americans? Why?
no he is going to ruin their life ending all those treaty's and taking kids away and messing with their living space if he would just leave them alone on their last it would be fine.

7. Please define each of the following terms in the context of Native American policy:
removal- Indian removal was a nineteenth century policy of the government of the United States to relocate Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi

allotment- a small area of land, let out at a nominal yearly rent by local government

termination- ending in time.



self determination- to keep what you have and to believe what you believe in.



8. Finally, give a paragraph summary on what self determination means, and why it either is, or is not, the appropriate policy for Native American people with respect to the Federal government.

Self determination is something u believe in. Its something that u want and u believe in getting it or sticking to it. I have a self determination that ill get an i pad and I'm not stopping till i get one. The native Americans self determination might be to keep their land forever and do what they please and they will work for it.

war of the nothern Agression

1. Were Southern politicians more or less likely to own slaves than other white Southerners?
1) yes they had a lot more power to make them do what they wanted and they probably had more money to spend on them.

2. Were higher level politicians more likely to own slaves than other politicians?
2) Yes because thats what the charts shows.

3. What do these facts suggest to you about the nature of the Southern political system?
3) It shows that the higher up you are in social the more you got.

4. How uniform were the proportion of slaves in the population and the proportion of whites owning slave across the South?
4) They were all over the place the owners sometimes used up more than the population offered.

5. Was there a relationship between the number of slaves in a state's population and whether and when it seceded from the Union?
5) No the people who were owning slaves didn't care about the law they just wanted to get more and more.

6. What material advantages did the North possess on the eve of the Civil War?
6) They had more factories to make a lot of things at once and they had more people and more transportation and the only thing they didn't have more of was blacks.

7. Do you think material advantages are decisive in the outcome of wars? Why or why not?
7) Of course it does the material advantages are what help the most in wars. The more you have the more power you have the more factories you have you can make more war things like guns and weaponry and the more people you have the more people you can use in the war and use all the weapons its but there is a little skill involved.

8. Why did troop strength peak in 1863?
8) Because they gained more experience after already fighting for a year.

9. Do you think that the differences in troop strength were responsible for the war's outcome?
9) Yes because they knew what they were doing and they did it well.

10. How does the cost of the Civil War--in casualties and expense--compare to the cost of other American wars?
10) They didn't have much money going toward veterans benefits so people might of died because they didn't care and the civil war was much bigger than some of the other American wars so the death rate is obviously going to be more.

11. Why do you think that the Civil War was so lethal?
11) Because there was so many troops fighting in the war. A lot of people died of disease.

12. What was the radical Republican program for reconstructing the Union?
12) It was an organization that used slaves to reconstruct the union till the law was passed against them.

13. What were the goals of the radical Republican program?
13) Their goal was to hang everything and they wanted it fast and now.

14. Why was the program unacceptable to President Andrew Johnson?
14) President Andrew Jonson didn't approve of anything they wanted to change.

15. Why do you think the North failed to follow through with policies that would have secured the rights and economic status of the freedmen?
15) Because they didn't have the right attitude and the government over ruled the power of the north to keep the slaves and they were all freedmen

16. What were the major political and social achievements of Reconstruction?
16) A lot of things differ in this questions because its almost like they made a new world, they did a lot of things like put up new schools banks people attitude was different overall they made a new world or way of life.

local History

Jessica and I are going to make a documentary about the Corinna Elementary School. We are going to explain its story while we are on the playground. We decided to do this because we love to go there and I grew up there =)

research porject

Jessica, Chad and I are going to make a movie about life after high school and how we can accomplish what our parents accomplished. Will we be able to accomplish more then our parents did? We will be interviewing teens around the school and some teachers.

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research project

for my research project Chad, Jessics and I are going to make a movie about distracted drivers. We will interveiw different people that drive and ask them what they do to be distracted and how they think it will effect them and people around them and how they think everyone can change .

local history

for local history I interviewed Mr. Emerson and asked him questions about big events that happened to him during his life.

cold war assignment one

When this bomb went off it destroyed things within 900 kilometers (565 miles). People were so scared because they weren't expecting it to do so much damage. If they dropped the bomb in New York City which is 495 miles away from Newport, it would shatter windows in Newport. People probably new that the bomb was going to happen sometime but they probably didn't think that the bomb could make such damage.