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What do you think might have happened to Lewis and Clark’s expedition without the help of Sacajawea and York?

I think they have trouble in might bceause they help the sacajwea and York. 

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Data Set: Thomas Jefferson

Place the following facts into the categories of: Slavery and Sally Hemings, Jefferson Life, Jefferson as President, Jefferson Jobs

1.     Jefferson became the ambassador of France and lived there with his daughter Maria and Sally Hemings.Jefferson Jobs

2.     After his presidency, Jefferson founded and built the University of Virginia. Jefferson Life

3.     The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States.Jefferson as President,

4.     In 1998, a DNA test proved that Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemings children.Slavery and Sally Hemings

5.     Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men were created equal.”Jefferson Life

6.     Jefferson owned a slave by the name of Sally Hemings and had an affair with her that lasted nearly 26 years. Slavery and Sally Hemings,

7.     At age twenty-six, Jefferson began to built his home Monticello which means little mountain in Italian Jefferson Life

8.     Jefferson had slaves at his home in Virginia. Slavery and Sally Hemings

9.     Jefferson was considered a renaissance man; he was an architect, farmer, writer, and inventor. Jefferson Jobs

10. Jefferson was elected president in 1800. Jefferson as President,

11. George Washington selected Jefferson to be his Secretary of State.Jefferson Jobs

12. Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on an expedition to explore and map the American West.Jefferson as President,

Should history’s opinion of Jefferson change because of the slaves he kept and his relationship with Hemings? Why or why not?

No, Hemings was still his slave because Jefferson had not free her yet

2008 Presidential Candidates

Put these into the categories, Barack Obama or John McCain.

1.   My campaign motto is “Change We Need.”

2.   I am a United States Senator from Arizona .

3.    

4.   I was born in the Panama Canal Zone .

5.   I was a community organizer in Chicago.

6.   During the Vietnam War, I was taken as a prisoner of war for five years by the North Vietnamese and have been awarded from my bravery.

7.   I was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and white American mother.

8.   I am a United States Senator from I llinois.

9.   I am known as a “maverick.”

10.                     I am a member of the Republican Party.

11.                       In September of 2008, I became the first African American to be nominated by a major party to run for President of the United States .

  Barack Obama

1.My campaign motto is “Change We Need

4.I was born in the Panama Canal Zone .

6.During the Vietnam War, I was taken as a prisoner of war for five years by the North Vietnamese and have been awarded from my bravery.

7.           I was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and white American mother .

10.I am a member of the Republican Party

Benjamin Franklin

       life,countries,invented,Philadelphia

1.     Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts.

 life,

2.     After working in his brother’s printing shop as a boy, Franklin became a printer.

  life

3.     Franklin published his own newspaper called the Poor Richards Almanac.

   countries

4.     Franklin started the first hospital in Philadelphia.

    Philadelphia

5.     Franklin started a school in Philadelphia.

    Philadelphia

6.     Franklin started the first public library in Philadelphia.

    Philadelphia

7.     Franklin became famous for discovering electricity by using a kite and a key.

    Invented

8.     In 1765 Franklin spoke to British parliament about the Stamp Act in the colonies.

      countries

9.     Franklin worked with Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.

      Invented

10.  Franklin asked France to send help to America to help the American’s to win the Revolutionary War.

   countries

11.  Franklin helped write new laws for America called the Constitution.

      countries

12.  Benjamin Franklin had many jobs in his life; he was an author, politician, printer, scientist, philosopher, publisher, and inventor.

   Invented 

13.  Benjamin Franklin invented Bifocals.

    Invented

14.  Near the end of his life, Franklin became an abolitionist, someone who was against slavery.

  Invented 

Think of time you stopped doing something even though you wanted to keep on doing it. What was it, and what made you stop?

Now try to put yourself in the mind of an American colonist who had slaves hundreds of years ago.  Then try to put yourself in the mind of someone who has slaves today.

If you were one of them, what do you think would have to happen in order to make you stop having slaves and why?

1) I want to cook food but my sister try to stop me.

2) I think If I were one American colonist  

Think of time you stopped doing something even though you wanted to keep on doing it. What was it, and what made you stop?

Now try to put yourself in the mind of an American colonist who had slaves hundreds of years ago.  Then try to put yourself in the mind of someone who has slaves today.

If you were one of them, what do you think would have to happen in order to make you stop having slaves and why?

1) I want to cook food but my sister try to stop me.

2) I think If I were one American colonist  

lavery Cloze #1

A slave is forced Work for someone else. Slaves are owned by their _ Masters

_. Slavery did not begin in America. Slavery has been around for a very long time. The Bible tells of people captured during war. They became

_ Work  to the people that captured during the war. They became _ Slavers 

__ to the people that captured them.  Very early slaves became house servants to their masters. More _ Women than man were taken as slaves in the early years.Masters

Slavery Data Cloze #2

Scientists have found signs of __ Spices _ as far back in history as 3000 B.C. These signs were found in Mesopotamia. Egyptians used slave labor to build the pyramids. China had slaves in 206 B.C. Early Greeks and Romans let their slaves do their _ Work_for them. Tribes in _ Africa _ used their captives as slaves. Slave trade was conducted up and down the Nile River. Slave traders would trade humans for perfumes, cloth, and Slavery. These products were hard to find in the western part of Africa.

Slavery Cloze #3

The west coast of Africa became known as the Slave Coast. Powerful African ___ Kings___ began to trade with Europeans. In the 1500’s Portugal, Spain, France, and England all wanted to be part of the slave trade. England’s strong navy helped them to take control of the slave trading in the ___ Atlantic___ ocean. At first Europeans tried to make the Native Americans into slaves, but they died from the many ___ Diseases__ that the Europeans brought to America, so they began using Africans for _ Slaves__.

Slavery Cloze #4

As the Europeans moved farther inland, the need for __ Slave___ labor increased. The Spanish and Portuguese started __ Colonies____ in what is today Brazil and Central America. The English took control of the trade routes to the north. By the middle of the 1600’s, the English began to set up a trade route that looked like a triangle. They would _ Buy____ slaves along the west coast of Africa, put them on their __ Ship___ and set sail for the islands in the Caribbean. 

Slavery Cloze #5

The trip that the _ Slaves____ bought from Africa took was called the Middle Passage. Many slaves __ Died___ during this trip. They were kept in cramped quarters below the deck of the ship. The trip could last from 25-60 days. The slaves were only given rice, corn, or beans twice a day. Each slave received a little __ Water___ with each meal. The living areas were __ Dirty___. Human waste filled the area. Disease spread fast.

Slavery Cloze #6

At the end of the voyage from Africa, you would sell the __ Slaves__ on your ship. You would take the __ Money____ you got from selling your slaves and buy rum, sugar, and molasses. You would put these things on your ship and head north. When you got to the eastern coast of the American colonies, you would stop at Boston or New York. Then, you would sell the things on your _ Ship___ and but wood, furniture, or guns and sail to London and start the trip over again. Many _ Merchants____ made this trip many times and became wealthy.

Slavery Cloze #7

Slaves that were brought to the Caribbean Islands from __ Africa___ were resold to plantation owners to work in the ___ Fields___ or as house servants on the islands. From the late 1700’s to the middle 1800’s, many _ Slaves___ were sent to the southern colonies in America to work on cotton plantations. Historians guess that up to 90,000 slaves a year were bought across the _ Atlantic____ Ocean.

Slavery Cloze #8

Slave traders used goods to buy slaves. In 1690, a plantation owner could __ Buy___ a healthy slave for about 15 pounds of goods. By 1760 the price of a healthy slave was about 45 pounds of goods. The life of a _ Families___ was never easy. The things the slaves went through were many times inhumane. Slaves were separated from their _ Slave____ and worked long hours for no pay in the fields. Many times slaves were __ Beaten if they did not work fast enough.

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