https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b en-us 2018-12-07 17:12:13 UTC 2018-12-13 17:01:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Watchclock.png marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/312329318 The potato famine in Ireland caused mass starvation and immigration to the U.S. Many people were able to pay for their trip over to the U.S.]]> 2018-12-07 17:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/312329318 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313030195 This treaty ended the U.S. war with Mexico. It also granted control of all of Texas, New Mexico, and California. The U.S. paid Mexico $15 million for all of Texas, California, and land as far south as San Diego.]]> 2018-12-10 16:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313030195 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313037927 This is the final acquisition of land in America within the contiguous 48 states. The U.S. paid Mexico $10 million for what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona.]]> 2018-12-10 17:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313037927 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313038891 The gold rush in California caused many Americans to move west and pulled many Chinese immigrants to come and work. The gold rush strengthened the American belief that it was Gd's will for them to expand across the continent.]]> 2018-12-10 17:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313038891 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313042664 This was a law passed creating the Kansas and Nebraska Territories. However. the question of slavery was left up to the local residents. They could decide whether or not to allow slavery.]]> 2018-12-10 17:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313042664 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313044402 Texas enters the Union as a slave state after a war between the U.S. and Mexico. They fought over whether or not the Rio Grande was the border.]]> 2018-12-10 17:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313044402 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313044855 The on-going wars and increase in population pushed many immigrants to America. Land had become scarce and famines spread due to poor nutrition and many people died of starvation. As a result, people migrated to the U.S. to help their families back home and have a better life.]]> 2018-12-10 17:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313044855 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313048351 Americans believed that it was their God-given right to expand and spread Christianity across the continent. They began expanding west in order to fulfill God's will.]]> 2018-12-10 17:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313048351 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313059536 How did migration to the U.S. and the doctrine of Manifest Destiny change popular ideas of American identity and citizenship, affect territorial expansion, cause conflict, and impact regional and racial identities?]]> 2018-12-10 17:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313059536 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313067188 Why did attempts at compromise before the war fail to prevent the conflict?]]> 2018-12-10 17:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313067188 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313386338 How did the maturing of northern manufacturing and the adherence of the South to an agricultural economy change the national economic system and impact the Civil War? How was the American conflict over slavery part of larger global events?]]> 2018-12-11 13:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313386338 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313389075 How did the Civil War struggle shape the American's beliefs about equality, democracy, and national destiny? To what extent, and in what ways, did the Civil War transform American political and social relationships?]]> 2018-12-11 13:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313389075 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313495444 This was a last-ditch effort at a compromise to amend the Constitution to protect slavery in states where it existed. The South wanted the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific and protect slavery in California. Lincoln refused and the South seceded.]]> 2018-12-11 16:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313495444 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313502328 This decreed that all slaves in the Confederate states still in rebellion were to be freed. It didn't free a single slave when it was first issued because the South had seceded from the Union and didn't abide by the Constitution.]]> 2018-12-11 17:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313502328 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313504384 The Confederates issued war bonds that paid 8 percent per year in interest when inflation was at 12 percent per month. This was not a good investment and even rich southerners didn't have much money to give. Their solution was to just print more money. This caused terrible inflation and increased the price of goods drastically.]]> 2018-12-11 17:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313504384 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313507915 Since most of the fighting took place in the South, the economy in the North was more stable. They had also established a Treasury Department and tax system at the beginning of the war.]]> 2018-12-11 17:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313507915 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313508252 The riot mostly consisted of Irish immigrants. They were apposed to the enforced military draft and their protest broke out into violence. This soon turned into class and racial warfare.]]> 2018-12-11 17:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313508252 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313512990 How did the growth of mass migration to the U.S., the end of slavery, and technology, including the railroad, and military developments transform the environment and settlement patterns in the South and the West?]]> 2018-12-11 17:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313512990 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313514672 To what extent, and in what ways, did Reconstruction alter relationships between the states and the federal government, and lead to debates over new definitions of citizenship for minority groups?]]> 2018-12-11 17:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313514672 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313954120 This agency was established to provide social, educational, and economic services to former slaves. They also gave them advice and protection. Lincoln used this as a distraction from the readmission of the Confederate stated into the Union.]]> 2018-12-12 17:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313954120 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313955496 These were laws passed by states denying most of the rights of citizenship to free African-Americans. They controlled their labor, mobility, and employment. They made it illegal for African-Americans to own guns or taxed guns at high rates.]]> 2018-12-12 17:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313955496 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313957897 Based in the South, they were a Republican Party organization led by African-Americans. They became a base for political action and support. They also offered opportunities to gain experience in the political process.]]> 2018-12-12 17:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313957897 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313959490 This was much like slavery, but legal. Instead of working for money, former slaves worked for a share of the crop. They were provided with a house, farm animals, tools, and advanced credit. They just needed to give the landowner a share of the crop as well.]]> 2018-12-12 17:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313959490 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313960799 These were segregation laws that spread throughout the South. There motto was "separate but equal." This meant that schools, public facilities, transportation, and everything else were separated.]]> 2018-12-12 17:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313960799 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313963601 The KKK was originally a social club for Confederate veterans in Tennessee. It soon turned into a vigilante group that terrorized black people in the South. They were committed to ending Reconstruction and returning the South to the way it was.]]> 2018-12-12 17:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313963601 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313965103 This amendment abolished slavery in the entire U.S. It did not, however, give them the right to vote. President Johnson refused to recognize a state as returning to the Union until it ratified the amendment.]]> 2018-12-12 17:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313965103 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313965254 This amendment states the no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws." It drastically changed the three-fifths clause and was popular in the North. Many in the South were anxious to return to Congress and have a say. ]]> 2018-12-12 17:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/313965254 marissa_shea https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/314351549 Images from padlet google search]]> 2018-12-13 17:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/marissa_shea/xu54vr4wwe1b/wish/314351549