https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5 unit 6 & 7 en-us 2019-04-01 17:52:53 UTC 2019-05-21 17:23:36 UTC hello@padlet.com conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/347754287 the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing whether or not it is also the forger's name.]]> 2019-04-02 17:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/347754287 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/347759472 Slavery is the brutal practice of forcing someone to work hard without paying them a fair wage, sometimes without paying them at all.]]> 2019-04-02 17:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/347759472 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349628525 The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states, Canada and Nova Scotia with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.]]> 2019-04-08 17:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349628525 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349629591 Abolitionism (or the abolitionist movement) was the movement to end slavery. This term can be used both formally and informally. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and set slaves free.]]> 2019-04-08 17:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349629591 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349630183 Abolitionism (or the abolitionist movement) was the movement to end slavery. This term can be used both formally and informally. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and set slaves free.]]> 2019-04-08 17:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349630183 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349630805 Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American educational reformer inspired by the work of the Whig dedicated to promoting public education.]]> 2019-04-08 17:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349630805 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349631315 he temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), with leaders emphasizing alcohol's negative effects on health, personality, and family life.]]> 2019-04-08 17:41:23 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349631315 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349631924 Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide, and formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century and feminist movement during the 20th century]]> 2019-04-08 17:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349631924 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349632156 the habitual misuse of alcohol.]]> 2019-04-08 17:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/349632156 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/351238511 Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.]]> 2019-04-12 17:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/351238511 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/351745941 a machine with a mechanically driven needle for sewing or stitching cloth.]]> 2019-04-15 17:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/351745941 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/351747729 the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.]]> 2019-04-15 17:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/351747729 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/351749089 Morse Code. To transmit messages across telegraph wires, in the 1830's Morse and Vail created what came to be known as Morse code. ... Initially, the code, when transmitted over the telegraph system, was rendered as marks on a piece of paper that the telegraph operator would then translate back into English.]]> 2019-04-15 17:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/351749089 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/353124424 The history of cotton in America began back in 1556 when it was cultivated by American settlers in Florida. Because cotton needed a warm climate, the southern states of America is the ideal place to plant and harvest it. ... This all changed when Eli Whitney invented the cotton Gin in 1793.]]> 2019-04-22 17:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/353124424 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/353127524 Thirty-five years after the abolition of slavery, the overwhelming majority of African Americans toiled in agriculture on land that they didn't own. Nine out of ten African Americans lived in the South (almost the same proportion as in 1860), and three out of four were tenant farmers or sharecroppers.

]]> 2019-04-22 17:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/353127524 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/353129380 Denmark Vesey was a literate, skilled carpenter and leader among African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina. He was accused and convicted of being the ringleader of "the rising," a major potential slave revolt planned for the city in June 1822; he was executed. ]]> 2019-04-22 17:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/353129380 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/355126970 The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.]]> 2019-04-29 17:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/355126970 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/359592800 A bayonet (from French baïonnette) is a knife, sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed to fit on the end of a rifle's muzzle, allowing it to be used as a spear.]]> 2019-05-13 17:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/359592800 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/359593504 an infantryman's light gun with a long barrel, typically smooth-bored, muzzleloading, and fired from the shoulder.]]> 2019-05-13 17:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/359593504 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/359596917 the art of planning and directing overall military operations and movements in a war or battle.]]> 2019-05-13 17:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/359596917 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/360024502 The Battle of Shiloh was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee]]> 2019-05-14 17:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/360024502 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/360026381 The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862]]> 2019-05-14 17:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/360026381 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/360028398 On July 16, 1861, the new Union volunteer army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington DC toward the Confederate army under Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard, drawn up behind Bull Run creek west of Centreville. Beauregard's men defended the strategic railroad junction at Manassas, just west of the creek.]]> 2019-05-14 17:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/360028398 conner_fitch90 https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/362241565 The Ten-Percent Plan. Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.]]> 2019-05-21 17:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/conner_fitch90/4o4p17gs34w5/wish/362241565