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Unit 6: Reform, North & South,  Life as an African American

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Unit 6: Reform, North & South,  Life as an African American

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to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices in society.

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Henry David Thoreau

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A "bell rack" on display at the History Museum of Mobile. It was found near Pidgeon Creek in Butler County. Enslaved people who had been recaptured after escaping were forced to wear this apparatus, which had a bell hanging from the top, so that their whereabouts could be tracked at all times.

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After the Fugitive slave Act, many more of these runaway slave posters began to appear around the North. The posters were very racist in wording, often describing runaway slaves in mean or derogatory terms. If you look at the poster below you can see that the owner describes his slave as, "heavy, stoutly made with a rather sullen countenance." It is almost as if the owner is describing an object or item that was lost!

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Fredrick Douglass- Scene from the movie Glory

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Fredrick Douglass- Scene from the movie Glory

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In this scene from the movie Glory, a young General for the Union (he was only 23!) named Robert Shaw meets abolitionist Fredrick Douglass. Shaw had been asked and agreed to lead the first ever regiment of black soldiers during the Civil War. They were the 54th Massachusetts regiment.

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This drawing is of a place called the Tontine coffeehouse in New York City. The drawing is from around 1810. This was located on a busy corner in Manhattan, which is a small island off of New York. In my research I found that during this time Tontine was one of the busiest centers for people to meet to discuss buying and selling goods and stocks and for business dealings. The article I read said it was even for politicians to meet and discuss ideas at.

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Morse Code message translator and message sender

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Morse Code message translator and message sender

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As I was researching Morse code, I found this really cool website that will translate a message into Morse code, record it, and then even send it to a friend!
As I was playing around with this tool and laughing about sending funny messages to my friends I was thinking back to how difficult it must’ve been for Morse code translators in offices to send and receive messages. The dots and dashes sounds so similar to me. I’m wondering if this is because I have 50% hearing loss in my left ear or if my brain is just not cut out for this type of thing!
Copy and paste this link into your browser to hear the message "Hey everybody! Isn't this super cool?"
https://morsecode.world/m?m=eJxjYhIR8chUSC1LLapMyk-pVFTwLM5TL1EoycgsViguLUgtUkjOz89RBADzHQzy

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Text to Morse

Just type letters, numbers and punctuation into the top box and the Morse code will appear in the bottom box with a "#" if the character cannot be translated. This is not a great tool for learning Morse code as looking at the dots and dashes does not help. Instead, try one of the training tools.

Morse to Text

You can type Morse code into the top box using "." for a dot and "-" or "_" for a dash. Letters are separated by spaces and words by "/". The text translation will appear in the bottom box. If a letter cannot be translated a "#" will appear in the output.

Sound, Light & Vibration

The "Play", "Pause", "Stop" and "Repeat" buttons control the playback. You can choose between hearing the sound, seeing a flashing light, or having your phone vibrate using the "Sound", "Light" and "Vibrate" checkboxes. The "Configure" button reveals advanced options to control the frequency and speed and switch between telegraph and radio sound styles. The flashing light and download buttons do not currently work when in "Telegraph" mode.

Notes

This tool works in most browsers: please see the FAQ if you are having problems.

If you would like to see a list of all the Morse code characters please go to my Morse Code page. If you have any questions about Morse code or the translator, please read my FAQ first.

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The translator can translate between Morse code and Latin, Hebrew, Arabic and Cyrillic alphabets. It can play, flash or vibrate the Morse code. You can also download the sound and share a link to use it to send messages to your friends. The speed, Farnsworth speed and frequency of the sound are all fully adjustable.

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Pee Wee's Big Adventure- The Alamo tour!

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Pee Wee's Big Adventure- The Alamo tour!

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Although this is not an official tour of the Alamo that you can take through the National Park service it was too funny for me not to include it on my Padlet. Watch and enjoy Pee Wee Herman as he goes on an Alamo tour!

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Pee-wee's Big Adventure (9/10) Movie CLIP - The Alamo Tour (1985) HD

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Davy Crockett- King of the Wild Frontier

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Davy Crockett- King of the Wild Frontier

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This Disney musical/movie portrayed Davy Crockett, a real life figure at the Alamo, as a true American hero. The lyrics of the songs in this movie are really interesting! It shows the perspective of Americans about Manifest Destiny when it was made in 1955. One of the songs refers to savages!

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Western+Music: Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier- Roi des trappeurs (En/Fr Lyrics)

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Heroes of the Alamo (1937) is a low-budget retelling of the events of the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo. It was produced by Anthony J. Xydias and reuses the battle scenes of his 1926 silent film Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo.

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MARCH 6, 1836 (Heroes Of The Alamo Film)

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Some descendants of the Donner family refuse to believe that any such thing took place, and insist that stories of cannibalism are exaggerated. According to the History channel, " The Alder Creek excavations, conducted in 2003 and 2004, turned up more than 16,000 bone fragments in all, including the remains of rodents, rabbits, deer, horses, oxen and cattle. They also found canine bones, supporting accounts by survivors that they ate their pet dogs. It’s clear that Donner Party members went to great lengths to avoid eating their own dead."
If they did eat the remains of their dead, they were reluctant. Connection- Another similar true story was that of

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 where a soccer team crashed in the Andes Mountains and over 72 days of being stranded, the survivors of the crash reluctantly resorted to cannibalism.

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Donner Dinner Party Graphic novel Book talk

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Donner Dinner Party Graphic novel Book talk

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I made this book talk about a graphic novel I read! Enjoy!

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According to Time magazine, Women found plenty of opportunities in the West that were not available in the East: everything from the right to vote to equal pay for women teachers to more liberal divorce laws. Wyoming Territory passed a series of such laws in 1869, partly in an effort to attract more white settlement, and the West was the first home of women’s suffrage in the U.S., with nearly every western state or territory enfranchising women long before women won the right to vote in eastern states."