Saturday, March 19, 2011

test 10, chapter 14

,,Test 10 -- History 136 -- Winter 2011 – 12pm

NAME:_______________________________________________


CHAPTER 14

Tell me if the statement is true or false.  Please write the word “true” or “false”, and not “T” or “F”.

1. US government involvement in the economy was diminished as a consequence of the Civil War._______________

2.  Black bravery on the battlefield helped convince many white northerners of equal rights before the law, regardless of race, at least during the War._____________

3. The Sea Island Experiment was an experiment in the Sea Islands of South Carolina in which a large breakwater was constructed to stop massive flooding during hurricanes.______________

4.  The Wade-Davis Bill, introduced in Congress in the summer of 1864, required a majority of white male southerners to pledge support for the Union before Reconstruction could begin, and guaranteed blacks equality before the law, but not the vote.______________

5.  Over the course of the war, the Union troops had stronger morale, but the Confederate troops were better supplied.____________

6.  Women provided the chief energy for northern war relief efforts.____________

7.  Photographs of battlefields, soldiers, war dead, war encampments and so forth carried the war into millions of Americans' living rooms._______________

Monday, February 28, 2011

Homework: view online film before Friday, 03/05/11

please watch the rest of We Shall Remain: "The Trail of Tears"

there might be a tiny test on Friday, 03/05/11, related to it

film:
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/the_films/episode_3_trailer

portfolio work: Slavery,

click here

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Tuesday's class

We won't meet for class on Tuesday, 02/22/11.  Email me if you need to contact me.