https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51 en-us 2016-10-21 19:22:57 UTC 2016-10-28 19:38:04 UTC hello@padlet.com terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132446723 Definition: system increasing a nation's wealth by government regulation
 
Historical Context: Mercantilism was the system of trade adopted by the big European powers from around 1500 to 1800. ]]> 2016-10-21 19:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132446723 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132447221 Definition: education that results in the spread of knowledge 

Historical Context:  Enlightenment thinkers in Britain during the Age of Reason, throughout Europe they questioned authority and supported the idea that humanity could be better through rational change.]]> 2016-10-21 19:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132447221 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132448204 Definition: the state of being confederated 

Historical Context: In WW1 the alliance called the Central Powers consisted of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Ottoman Empire ,and the Kingdom of Bulgaria to fight the Allied Powers.]]> 2016-10-21 19:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132448204 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132448591 Definition: one who loves and defends his or her country 

Historical Context: People in the America knew they were not treated fairly by the British. They were being taxed without any say. Soon people wanted liberty throughout the colonies. The patriots wanted freedom from Britain's rule]]> 2016-10-21 19:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132448591 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132448914 Definition: a crime that undermines the offender's government; an act of deliberate betrayal 

Historical Context: On this day in 1780, during the American Revolutionary war, American General Benedict Arnold discussed British Major John Andre giving the British control of  West Point. In return for a big amount of money and a high position in the British army. But Benedict's plan was stopped.]]> 2016-10-21 19:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132448914 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132449314 Definition: form into an army unit smaller than a division 

Historical Context: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was one of the first official black units in the U.S. military. Their courageous attack on Fort Wagner played a major part in ending slavery. 

]]> 2016-10-21 19:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132449314 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132449784 Definition: take away the weapons from; render harmless

Historical Context:  During the end of WW2 5,000 British soldiers of the 20th Indian Division, lead by General Douglas Gracey, entered in south of Indochina to disarm the crushed Japanese army.]]> 2016-10-21 19:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132449784 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132450967 Definition: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch 

Historical Context: Around  50,000 American and 100,000 British soldiers deserted from military forces during World War II.  Some fell in love with French or Italian women. Some became part of the black market as pirates. Numerous others just quit because of the  strain of battle.]]> 2016-10-21 19:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132450967 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132456290 Definition: a speech of violent denunciation 

Historical Context: In his first game as interim coach of the San Francisco 49ers, Mike Singletary benched a quarterback and dismissed explained tight end Vernon Davis to the locker room. He commented why after the game, using  language rarely heard from NFL coaches]]> 2016-10-21 20:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132456290 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132456526 Definition: status established in order of importance or urgency 

Historical Context: 1944 
Volkswagen halts production during World War II. One day in 1944, Volkswagen under the risk of Allied air attacks as World War II was going on. The German car producer Volkswagen cuts off construction of the “Beetle” was nicknamed in the international media. During the war years, the German army’s urgency for a lightweight service automobile took precedence over the production of cheap commuter cars.]]> 2016-10-21 20:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132456526 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132456754 Definition: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate 

Historical Context: In 1964 Sanders traded Kentucky Fried Chicken , and later food conglomerate Heublein acquired the business in 1971. The cantankerous colonel lead to mock the chain’s gravy as “slop” and its holders as “a bunch of booze hounds.” 

]]> 2016-10-21 20:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132456754 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132456976 Definition: an extended communication dealing with some particular topic 

Historical Context: Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was one of the popular voices of the activist and feminist movements of her time. Mott’s feminist attitude was defined in her Discourse on Women (1850). ]]> 2016-10-21 20:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132456976 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132457424 Definition: a feeling of righteous anger 

Historical Context: Did you know the creator hated their creation and the Eiffel Tower was not about love. In the Le Temps newspaper in 1887 on a Valentine’s Day. The artist wrote this in the paper “We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects, passionate lovers of the beauty, until now intact, of Paris, hereby protest with all our might, with all our indignation, in the name of French taste gone unrecognized, in the name of French art and history under threat, against the construction, in the very heart of our capital, of the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower.”]]> 2016-10-21 20:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132457424 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132457675 Definition: characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight  

Historical Context: In prospect of another European war, and in a hunt of an isolationist foreign guideline, Congress developed  the Neutrality Act in August 1935, threating the sale of munitions by U.S. companies to any and all belligerents in any anticipated war.]]> 2016-10-21 20:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132457675 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132458056 Definition: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike 

Historical Context:  In of February 15, 1970 as the jury pursues to intentionally in the trial of the Chicago Eight, defense lawyers William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass and three of the defendants are convicted to jail for contempt of court..]]> 2016-10-21 20:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132458056 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132458483 Definition: inequality or difference in some respect 

Historical Context: With the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act was an very important document of civil rights laws in American history. Its results highly lowered the disparity between black and white voters in the U.S.]]> 2016-10-21 20:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132458483 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132458657 Definition: any entry into an area not previously occupied 

Historical Context: In 1763, at easy end of the French and Indian War, the British announced a decreed, primarily intended to appease the Indians by checking the encroachment of colonist on their lands]]> 2016-10-21 20:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132458657 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132458762 Definition: a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

Historical Context: In 1950 in the month of February, Senator McCarthy prosecuted that there were more than two hundred “known communists” in the Department of State. Around the year of 1954 h was becoming to wane.]]> 2016-10-21 20:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132458762 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132458982 Definition: action taken in return for an injury or offense 

Historical Context: In 1964 during the Vietnam War Announced North Vietnamese PT boat charges results in retaliation attacks. The U.S. army hijacked radio news from the North Vietnamese that provided Captain John Herrick of the Maddox the “impression” that Communist vigilance boats are planning a charge against the American ships,]]> 2016-10-21 20:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132458982 terence_liley https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132459281 Definition: a written agreement between two states or sovereigns      
Historical context: The Treaty of Versailles is the treaty that ended WW1. It was signed in the Palace of Versailles in Paris, this was a peace treaty between Germany and the Allied Powers.]]> 2016-10-21 20:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/terence_liley/1g7akhlzqp51/wish/132459281