These are the notes for class on Wed. 8-17-05

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Geography Is…

Location
• Where is it located?
• What are the latitude and longitude coordinates of this country?
• Where is this country located in relation to other countries, continents, or landforms?
• Where are this country’s major cities, landforms, and resources?

Location
Where is it located?
• Absolute location – a precise point on the surface of the earth ( latitude and longitude or street names and numbers, indicate absolute location)
• Relative location – refers to the position of a point or place in relation to other places (example: France is located across the English Channel from England)


Place

the physical and human characteristics of a place that set it apart from other places
• What is it like there?
• What is this country’s name, size, and population?
• What customs, religions, languages, and ethnic groups are found in this country?


Place

• What is it like there? It adds to the picture a river ( a physical feature) and a park ( a human feature )
• What do you think of when you envision the Grand Canyon? Niagara Falls? New York City? Paris, France?

Relationships Within Places:

how humans interact with the environment of a place—with both good and bad results
• How have the people in this place adapted to the climate?
• How has the climate affected the settlement of people within this country?
• What forms of energy do people of this country use?

Human/Environment Interaction

• What is the relationship between the people and the environment?
• How does an area change when settlement occurs?

Movement:

the movement of people, products, information, and ideas within a country and between countries
• Where do the majority of people live in this country?
• How are goods, services, and people transported within this country?
• What methods do people use to communicate ideas and information?


Movement

• How and why are places connected?
• The theme of movement looks at transportation and communication systems that link people in one location with those in another location.

Regions:

How regions form and change
• What kind of government does this country have and how was it formed?
• What political regions are located within this country?
• What are some of the unique characteristics of these regions?
• What are some of the major tourist attractions found in this country?

Regions

• A region is an area of the earth that has one or more common factors found throughout it.
• Human factors, such as language or government, or physical features, such as mountains climate, and vegetation help to define a region.

FINAL TEST: TUESDAY CHAPTER 16 AND 17 STUDY QUESTIONS 1 - 25

Final Test: Chapter 16 and 17 Study Guide Questions 1 - 25

Chapter 17 Test is on Thursday Questions 1-23

Chapter 16 and 17 Study Questions
Pages 424 - 475
What was the Missouri Compromise?
• A plan proposed by Henry Clay to keep the number of slave and free states equal
• Suggested admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

What was the Wilmont provisio?
• David Wilmot, called for a law to ban slavery in any lands won from Mexico

Define Abolitionists
• Person who wanted to end slavery in the United States

What was the free soil party?
• Anti slavery members of both parties
• Slogan was “Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free man
• Main objective was to keep slavery out of the western territories

Who were the candidates for president in 1848? What party did each belong to?
• Martin Van Buren – Free soilers
• Lewis Cass- Democrat
• Zachary Taylor – Whig

Who won the Presidential election in 1848?
• Zachary Taylor – was a slave holder from Louisiana

Describe the views of slavery for each of the following: slaveholders, Moderates, and Abolitionists
• Slaveholders – 1. allow slavery in every territory 2. Return escaped slaves to their owners
• Moderates – 1. Extended Missouri Compromise line, 2. Allow voter in each territory to decide on slavery

• Abolitionists – 1. Slavery is morally wrong 2. Ban slavery throughout the entire country
What was the Compromise of 1850?
• Agreement over slavery under which California joined the Union as free state and a strict fugitive slave law was passed

What was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
• Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
• People who let fugitives escape could be fined $1000 and jailed for six months

What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?
• Stephen Douglas proposed to set up a government for the Nebraska territory
• He proposed that the Nebraska Territory be divided into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska
• Each state would decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty

Who was John Brown?
• An abolitionist
• He moved to Kansas to help make it a free state
• Punished supporters of slavery by murder

Why was the territory called Bleeding Kansas?
• All of the violence and guerilla warfare in Kansas over the issue of slavery
• Newspapers labeled it Bleeding Kansas

Explain the Dred Scott case?
• Scott filed a lawsuit for his freedom
• He argued that he should be free because he lived in a free territory
• Supreme Court said he had no right to sue because he was a piece of property and not a citizen


How did the Dred Scott decision overturn the Missouri Compromise?
• The Supreme Court said that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because it had forbidden slavery in some territories
• The Court said the Congress did not have the power to outlaw slavery in any territory

Why was Harriet Tubman called the “Black Moses”?
• Tubman is compared to Moses in the bible leading his people, the Israelites, from slavery to freedom
• Tubman led her own people, who were slaves to freedom on the underground railroad

Who was elected President in 1860?
• Abraham Lincoln

What state was the first to secede from the Union? What date?
• The first state to secede was South Carolina on December 20, 1860

What were the first seven states to secede?
• South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas

What did they call the new nation?
• Confederate States of America

What event started the Civil War?
• The bombing of Fort Sumter

What happened at Harpers Ferry?
• John Brown took a group of men to raid the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry

Why did Lincoln not use force against the Confederacy in the beginning when the states began to secede?
• Lincoln thought that if he used force against the southern states he would cause a civil war and unrest among the southerns

Why did Lincoln have trouble finding good generals for the Union army?
• Many of the army’s best officers joined the Confederacy

We will have a test on Thursday on selected questions. I will tell you which questions on Tuesday and Wednesday. Selected vocabulary will be on the test also.

Chapter 16 and 17 Study Questions
Pages 424 - 475
Directions: Read each question carefully. Answer each question on a separate piece of paper. Place the questions and answers in your binders.

1. What was the Missouri Compromise?
2. What was the Wilmont provision?
3. Define Abolitionists
4. What was the free soil party?
5. Who were the candidates for president in 1848? What party did each belong to?
6. Who won the Presidential election in 1848?
7. Describe the views of slavery for each of the following: slaveholders, Moderates, and Abolitionists
8. What was the Compromise of 1850?
9. What was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
10. What was the Kansa Nebraska Act?
11. Who was John Brown?
12. Why was the territory called Bleeding Kansas?
13. Explain the Dred Scott case?
14. How did the Dred Scott decision overturn the Missouri Compromise?
15. Why was Harriet Tubman called the “Black Moses”?
16. Who was elected President in 1860?
17. What state was the first to secede from the Union? What date?
18. What were the first seven states to secede?
19. What did they call the new nation?
20. What event started the Civil War?
21. What happened at Harpers Ferry?
22. Why did some political leaders join the Free Soil Party?
23. Why did Lincoln not use force against the Confederacy in the beginning when the states began to secede?
24. Why did Lincoln have trouble finding good generals for the Union army?
25. Name the battles won by each: Confederacy, Union
26. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
27. How did the Civil War help the northern economy?
28. Why did the issue of state’s rights play in the war?
29. Why did the tide of the war slowly turn in favor of the Union?
30. What battle was the turning point of the war?
31. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and the South?
32. What were the Monitor and the Merrimack?
33. Describe the Monitor and the Merrimack’s battle
34. Describe the Battle of Bull Run
35. What decisive victories did Lee win?
36. What was the Gettysburg address?
37. Who won the war? Who surrendered to whom? Where?
38. Who was President of the Confederacy?
39. Who was President of the Union?
40. Who was the greatest general of the Civil War?
41. How did Stonewall Jackson get his name?
42. How did African Americans help to weaken the Confederacy?
43. Why were no slaves actually freed when the Proclamation was issued?
44. Who was Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Rose Greenhow, Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Sojourner Truth, Sally Tompkins?
45. Why did the victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg mark a turning point in the war?
46. Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
47. How did the war affect the northern and southern economies differently?
48. What ideals did Lincoln express in his Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural address?
49. How did Sheridan and Sherman use total war to destroy the South’s ability to fight?
50. Why were Confederate armies in the East often victorious in the early years of the war?
Define all vocabulary ( define and identify) on pages 424, 430, 435, 439, 448, 453, 459, 463, and 468

Don't forget your vocabulary test tomorrow.
Remeber to bring all of your budget sheets to class tomorrow

These are Vocabulary terms that will be used in our Economics unit. You need to be very familiar with each one. We will have a Vocbulary test on these on Thursday. Make sure to bring your economic packets each day to class

Economics Unit
Vocabulary terms
ƒU Budget !V a plan to organize and match income and expenses
ƒU Salary !V a regular income paid for work over a set time period
ƒU Savings !V the part of income held back from consumption
ƒU Debt !V money that is owed to another person or company for products or services

ƒU Commercial bank- a bank owned by private citizens
ƒU Consumer- someone who buys goods and services
ƒU Consumer good !V a product that is useful to consumers
ƒU Consumption !V the use of goods and services by consumers
ƒU Contract !V a legal agreement between two or more people or firms

ƒU Credit !V an arrangement to pay in the future for goods, services, or money received
ƒU Creditor !V someone who is owed money
ƒU Currency !V money made of paper
ƒU Economics !V a science that explains how societies allocate scarce resources
ƒU Economy !V the system used in a nation for making decisions on what, how, and for whom to produce

ƒU Employee !V a person who works for someone else
ƒU Financing !V obtaining or providing the money to operate a business or buy something
ƒU Household !V a small group of people who make their earning and spending decisions together
ƒU Income !V the total value of earnings that a household receives from the sales of its resources


ƒU Installment loan !V Money that is to be repaid in regular payments over a period of time
ƒU Landlord !V someone who owns rental property
ƒU Lease !V a contract that specifies the rights and obligations of renters and landlords
ƒU Money !V anything that people are willing to accept as payment for things they sell or work they do


ƒU Mortgage !V a legal contract or deed that pledges the property as security against the loan
ƒU Need !V a good or service that people must have to continue living
ƒU Rent !V money received for the use of land or a building
ƒU Supply-the quantity of a good or service that firms will provide at a given price

ƒU Tenant- someone who rents a house or an apartment
ƒU Wage !V compensation that depends on the amount of time worked
ƒU Want-a good or service that people desire but could live without

Be sure that all of Chapter 11 packet is completed.
Bring Chapter 11 packet to class tomorrow.

Rocking chairs and swings with an old person in them are history lessons.

All classes:

Finish bar graphs to place in your journal. Don't forget to bring your Chapter 8 packets to class tomorrow.