Symbolic Representation

The students created symbolic representations to demonstrate their understanding of the levels and branches of government.

• Josh and John
• Luke and Katherine
• Sydeny and Bella
• Tom and Addison
• Jenna and Tess
• Claire and Hannah
• Rori and Mikaela
• Jordan and Matthew
• Jackson and Halle

Westward Expansion Educreations

This is a group of commericials that were created based on our lessons on various perspectives of Westward Expansionin the United States.

• Keith and Matthew
• Jackson and Tom
• Hannah and Bella
• Jordan and Addison
• John
• Katherine and Claire
• Halle, Tess, and Rori
• Luke and Jenna
• Sydney and Josh
• Matthew and John
• Tom and Rori
• Sydney and Bella
• Josh and Max
• Jordan and Jenna
• Keith and Mikaela
• Claire and Addison
• Hannah and Vaughn
• Katherine and Tess
• Bryant and Zach
• Luke and Jackson
• Matthew and Tom
• Claire and Bella
• Tess and Katherine
• Mikaela
• Jenna and Addison
• Josh and John
• Halle and Sydney
• Luke and Keith
• Jordan and Hannah
• Rori and Max

Subtext lesson 3/21 writing

In America we celebrate traditions like Memorial Day and Veterans Day, which used to be Armistice Day. You are going to learn about the wonderful traditions and celebrations in the next few paragraphs. I hope you learn a lot

Many people celebrate traditions too. Memorial Day is held towards the summer. We celebrate it because many brave people have served in the army, marines, etc. and this helps people remember them. Putting flowers on their grave on this day is one way people can show love to lost and a lot of proud in them my family and friends celebrate and respect this tradition. My grandparents took me to the Arlington national cemetery. Last summer it really helped me understand the soldiers bravery. My big brother got to start the pledge of allegiance there. America celebrates in many different ways but that was just a few ways.

Veterans Day is held to honor our soldiers for being brave and risking their lives for our country. We need to respect them a whole lot. This day/weekend can be very sad or very exciting. It can be sad because people think about family dying. It can also be very exciting because family sometimes can come home. People celebrate this tradition by doing many fun things. Here are a few. At school people come and speak to us about how important it is. We do fun worksheets and stuff to help us remember. People have many traditions in America.

Many Americans honor these traditions in many ways. You can honor it by putting flowers on the graves of lost soldiers this helps us remember them even though they're gone. People can go to the Arlington national cemetery to see the unknown soldier. Americans can also celebrate family coming back home from war. Some people have parties for them. Others have small get-togethers. My family goes to the parade. Even though there are many ways to celebrate we all have great traditions.

Now you know some ways American citizens celebrate different traditions. Those are some wonderful celebrations in America. I hope you learned some stuff.

Educreations

We worked on organizing our thinking for on demand prompts in either webs or outlines.  Here are a few examples from our lesson!

• Bella and Jordan
• Tom and Luke
• Matthew and Jenna
• Sydney and Katherine
• John and Josh

Smore for Local Government

Take a look at our Smore presentations on Oldham County local government and what it provides!

• Tom and Max
• Zach and Keith
• Haley and Sydney
• Bella and Jackson
• Jenna and Josh
• Tess and Jordan
• Addison and Rori
• Katherine and Hannah
• Matthew and Claire
• Luke and Vaughn
• John and Mikaela

Louisiana Purchase and Manifest Destiny

Step 1: The Louisiana Purchase Timeline

France gave Louisiana to Spain.

March 1801:

Napoleon wanted a French empire in North America. So, under pressure, Spain returned Louisiana to France.

Federalists in the United States were alarmed that France now owned Louisiana. They wanted to use force against France. But Jefferson (a Democratic-Repulican) sent Robert R. Livingston, the U.S. minister to France to attempt to buy New Orleans.

January 1803: U.S. sent James Monroe to join Livingston and try to buy New Orleans

and West Florida from France.

April 1803:

Napoleon gave up his dream of an American empire because he was overwhelmed by the slave revolt in Haiti and also wanted to go to war with Britain.

The French offered Livingston and Monroe all of Louisiana (not just New Orleans). Livingston and Monroe signed a treaty. For roughly $15 million, the U.S. acquired some 828,000 square miles of land, doubling the national territory of the United States.

October 1803:

The Senate ratified the treaty and in December the United States acquired the Louisiana Purchase.

Step 2: Document A: Alexander Hamilton (Modified)

The purchase of New Orleans is essential to the peace and prosperity of our Western country, and opens a free and valuable market to our commercial states.

This purchase will probably make it seem like Mr. Jefferson is brilliant. Any man, however, who possesses any amount of intelligence, will easily see that the purchase is the result of lucky coincidences and unexpected circumstances and not the result of any wise or thoughtful actions on the part of Jefferson’s administration.

As to the vast region west of the Mississippi, it is a wilderness with numerous tribes of Indians. And when we consider the present territory of the United States, and that not one-sixteenth is yet under occupation, the possibility that this new purchase will be a place of actual settlement seems unlikely.

If our own citizens do eventually settle this new land, it would weaken our country and central government. On the whole, we can honestly say that this purchase is at best extremely problematic.

Source: Alexander Hamilton wrote an editorial called “Purchase of Louisiana” for the New York Evening Post, July 1803.

Document B: Letters by Federalists (Modified) Rufus King to Timothy Pickering, November 4, 1803

According to the Constitution, Congress may admit new states. But can the President sign treaties forcing Congress to do so?

According to the Louisiana Treaty, the territory must be formed into states and admitted into the Union. Will Congress be allowed to set any rules for their admission? Since slavery is legal and exists in Louisiana, and the treaty states that we must protect the property of the inhabitants, won’t we be forced to admit the new states as slave states? Doing so will worsen the problem of unequal representation from slave and free states.

Timothy Pickering to Rufus King. March 4, 1804

I am disgusted with the men who now rule us. The coward at the head [Jefferson] is like a French revolutionary. While he talks about humanity, he enjoys the utter destruction of his opponents. We have too long witnessed his general wickedness—his cruel removals of faithful officers and the substitution of corruption and immorality for honesty.

Source: The two letters above are written between two Federalists. Rufus King was a Senator from New York and Timothy Pickering was a Senator from Massachusetts.

Tuesday

John Melish subtext

“Manifest Destiny” and the Writing of John O’Sullivan (Modified)

John O’Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity," 1839.

Our national birth (and the Declaration of Independence) was the beginning of a new history, which separates us from the past and connects us only with the future.

We are the nation of progress, of individual freedom, of universal enfranchisement. Our future history will be to establish on earth the moral dignity and salvation of man -- the undeniable truth and goodness of God. America has been chosen for this mission among all the nations of the world, which are shut out from the life-giving light of truth. Her high example shall put an end to the tyranny of kings, and carry the happy news of peace and good will to millions who now endure an existence hardly better than that of beasts of the field. Who, then, can doubt that our country is destined to be the great nation of the future?

John O’Sullivan, “Annexation,” 1845.

It is time now for all opposition to annexation of Texas to stop. . . Texas is now ours. She is no longer to us a mere geographical space. She is no longer to us a mere country on the map....

The time has come for everyone to stop treating Texas as an alien, and to stop thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

Source: John O’Sullivan was a writer and editor of a well-known newspaper around the time of the Mexican-American war. Most people give him the credit for coining the term “Manifest Destiny.”

Vocabulary

Enfranchisement: the right to vote Tyranny: cruel and oppressive government Endure: suffer Thwarting: opposing Hampering: slowing down Allotted: given Providence: God

Manifest DestinyGuiding Questions Name__________

John O’Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity," 1839.

1. What does John O’Sullivan think America stands for?

2. What, according to John O’Sullivan, is America’s mission?

John O’Sullivan, “Annexation,” July 1845.

1. What do you think John O’Sullivan means by “our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions”?

2. Based on these two documents, how did Americans feel about expanding westward?