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The Westward Expansion was when many people were moving to the west for many more opportunities. Those opportunities being better jobs, fertile land, money, equality, and for the carving to have an adventure. The type of people going west were explorers, families, Californios, and etc.

https://app.peardeck.com/student/tmbywyosj

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During the Westward Expansion there was a group going west was named the Doner Party. They heard of a short cut that was supposedly safer and it would lead them faster to the west so they took it. They would then stocked as many supplies they could and get going. As they kept walking through the shortcut they were told about they realized they would have to cross some mountains. Some people from the group were unsure of this but the majority wanted to go so they went. They were starting to run low on supplies while crossing the dessert. Their wagons would get stuck and the Oxen were dying of hunger and thirst. As they finished crossing the desert a winter storm hit. They would then see they were stranded and built cabins. Small groups would try to cross and one group made but only 7 out of 17 survived. When the group arrived people would then try to rescue the rest. By time they arrived many people were dead and the people remaining had started to eat them. The Doner Party consisted of 87 people, out of those 87 people 46 survived and 41 died.

https://app.peardeck.com/student/tmbywyosj

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Manifest Destiny was the belief that Americans should expand. The Americans thought it was their fate to expand. Manifest Destiny would lead to America buying many places but also fighting with many places who weren't willing to be bought.

https://app.peardeck.com/student/tpnyftrjh

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The Mexican American War started in 1846. America believed it was their destiny to be in control of the Northern part of America. Mexico claimed Texas but the U.S said that Texas was independent. The U.S and Mexico would have an argument over the border. These were some of the reason why the Mexican American War started. The war would then end in 1848.

https://app.peardeck.com/student/tpnyftrjh

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The Industrial Revolution was when Europe and the U.S transitioned to a new way to manufacture. They used mills to make cotton. The mill companies usually hired only children and women. This was because they didn't need to pay them a lot of money and the women excepted these jobs because they saw it as economic freedom. Cities expanded because people would move to the city and leave their farm for job opportunities. Though this was good it would also lead to some problems. Slavery would increase and so would child labor. Many people would have to work way harder then they usually did. Since many cities would start to get more populated this meant that they were very dirty.

https://app.peardeck.com/student/thuezdybd

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Morse code is a way to communicate using dots and dashes. Back then this was a way how people could communicate faster when they weren't close to each other. Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail are the people who founded Morse code. Morse code was named after Samuel Morse. Alfred Vail was born in September 25, 1807, and Samuel Morse was born on April 27, 1791. They would partner together to invent Morse code. Something else that Samuel Morse also was an inverter that helped make the telegraph. The first message using Morse code was on May 24, 1844. It was sent from Washington, D.C to Baltimore. Morse code has now been used for about 177 years.

https://theconversation.com/simply-elegant-morse-code-marks-175-years-and-counting-117069

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John Brown was born on May 9, 1800. He is today known for being a abolition. He fought for equal rights and believed that people should not own slaves. On October 1859 John Brown made a raid and they went to the town Harpers Ferry located in Virginia. He went here hoping to arm the slaves and to free them as well. His attempt to arm and free the slaves was not successful. He would then be found, captured, convicted of treason, murder, and conspiracy to incite slave rebellion, and he then would be executed on December 2, 1859.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D7nOoe_HdknpJ1eDPIkWJUlkteUXrBz5QxIx0x8p--4/edit and Wikipedia

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My Questions for the Painting, The Way of Good & Evil

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My Questions for the Painting, The Way of Good & Evil

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The painting, The Way of Good & Evil is a painting showing two paths, one being evil, and the other being good. With these paths there are also words around them describing what things you did or can do to get to the path you are in or soon will be in. This painting has made me wonder one big question. The question being, why aren't the paths connected? I wonder this because this means you can only go through one path which is true but what if you try to change your ways or habits to get to the correct path, will you still stay in the same path that you are in? If the paths can't connect does it means that you can't change path you are in but does that mean that you will need to go all the back to go to the path that you wanted to or does this mean that your fate has already been chosen since birth? I also wonder what were his thoughts while making this painting?

https://app.peardeck.com/student/tesspjnkj I also used google

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This was a doodle I made showing what I thought was one of the biggest cause of the Civil War, slavery. I think this because slavery was wrong and people wanted freedom and equal rights. The white people are supposed to be laughing at the people of color thinking that they are superior to them. Then I doodle negative expressions on the Africans because they were angry, tired, and sad of being treated the way they were.

https://app.peardeck.com/student/tncyskduv

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The founder of slavery was not a person but a region. Slavery started in Mesopotamia. When they're enemies were captured they were forced to work. This was around the time 6800 B.C. Then around the time 1526 some Spanish explorers brought the first African slaves to what soon would turn into the United States. Later on in 1641 Massachusetts would become the first ever British colony to allow slavery. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln frees slaves but he did not free all the slaves. He only freed the slaves that were seceded from the Union. The now most resent form of slavery would be forced labor in agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, fishing and other physical-labor industries,sex slavery, and forced marriage slavery.

I found all of this awesome information on a website called, Free The Slaves.
https://www.freetheslaves.net/about-slavery/slavery-in-history/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomlindsay/2019/08/30/after-all-didnt-america-invent-slavery/?sh=35f997a47ef6

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The young men in the Civil War were many. There were about thousands of young boys who were lying about their age. The most common age between the boys were 13-17. The majority of the boys were killed or wounded during the battle. The youngest boys were usually drummers or messages. These boys being around the age of 10. The boys that were drummers were used to alert the soldiers or communicate to them. They would play different drum rolls if they needed to tell them something like "retreat". For the messages they would use the boys who were brave and who were fast runners.

https://www.ducksters.com/history/civil_war/children_during_the_civil_war.php#:~:text=As%20a%20result%20thousands%20of,killed%20or%20wounded%20in%20battle.&text=The%20youngest%20of%20the%20boy,drummers%20during%20the%20Civil%20War.

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TPd2Ml0tM-UWZl37E7qSTRNz4H_uE7j0cuwwHNi7Snk/edit#slide=id.p

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The Great Dismal Swamp is located in Virginia. Slaves would come here when they were running away. This place was  inhospitable because of all it's dangers. There were many animals there like snakes and insects. The runaway slaves would blend in with the free slaves. When the slave owners wanted to catch them they would use well trained dogs to sniff them out. It was really hard to catch the slaves so at times they would give up.

https://dismalswampwelcomecenter.com/history/

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Rifles: One of the Most  Popular Weapons During the Civil War

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Rifles: One of the Most  Popular Weapons During the Civil War

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The most common weapon during the Civil War was the Rifle. They were so popular because they were good and reliable guns and they were also easy to use. There were five different types of rifles used during the war. Rifles, short rifles, repeating rifles, rifle muskets, and cavalry carbines were the five different rifles. They each were unique and different from each other because each gun had it's purpose and they were fit for specific persons.Short rifles and cavalry carbines were very a like. The only difference was that cavalry carbines were made for people who would be on horseback. The guns average bullets to shoot were two to three per minute. After that you would need to reload.

https://www.ncpedia.org/weapons-civil-war

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The Battle of Bull Run also known as the Battle of Manassas began on July 12, 1861. This battle was located in Manassas, Virginia. This was the first land battle of the Civil War. It began when Union troops started to march to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 which happened to be in a place located along a small river named Bull Run. They fought almost for an entire day but then the rebels were able to go against McDowell's plan. Thus the South won.

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/first-battle-of-bull-run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bYqrDuVDtA

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Why Was the Battle of Antietam so Bloody?

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Why Was the Battle of Antietam so Bloody?

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The Battle of Antietam was one of the battles fought during the Civil War. The battle started on September 17, 1862. There would be 23,00 men at least killed or wounded. The question is, why was the Battle of Antietam so bloody? The simple answer is because of the cornfield. Joseph Hooker said, "every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rows precisely as they stood in their ranks a few moments before. It was never my fortune to witness a more bloody, dismal battlefield." This was because both south and the north were there.When they started to reach the south edge of the south part it is then when a large volley was unleashed. Both sides then would try gain upper hand both sides would also fail at this. This was one of the first to cause the Battle of Antietam.

https://www.nps.gov/anti/learn/photosmultimedia/tour-stop-4.htm
https://www.npr.org/2012/09/17/161248814/antietam-a-savage-day-in-american-history

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Frances Clayton also known as Frances Clalin was born on 1803. She was a  women who changed her identity. She joined the fight of the Civil War. The name she would use would be Jack William. According to the American Battlefield Trust she did it because, "before the Civil War, Frances lived with her husband in Minnesota. When the fighting began, the couple set off to Missouri to enlist, hoping that enlisting a state away could help disguise Frances’s identity. Her husband enlisted under his real name, which has been recorded as “John” or Elmer” in different sources, and she donned the name “Jack Williams.” She and her husband joined and fought by each other but that would shortly end when her husband would be shot and killed. According to her, "Frances told reporters that she had to step over his corpse during the conflict." After this she was discharged from the army. "Even though she was injured three times during the eighteen battles she fought in, she notes that her identity was never reveled."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYCF8ALSYZw
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/frances-clayton

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Robert E Lee was the general for Gettysburg. The battle was named after him. Before he was general for Gettysburg he had been in different battles. "By the last week of June 1863, his 75,000 men had marched into Pennsylvania. The bloodiest battle of the war opened on July 1 just west of Gettysburg, with Confederates carrying the field and then continuing their tactical offensives during the next two days."(Gary W. Gallagher)

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-E-Lee