SS+8F-Kristian

geography quiz: http://www.quizgeo.com/quiz/612/-southernly-americas-
 * ~ Year ||~  ||~ Which area? Size? (be specific) ||~   ||~ Name & how was the territory gained. ||~   ||~ Peaceful or Non-Peaceful ||
 * 1853 ||  || Southwestern chunk of Arizona ||   || Gadsden Purchase: Purchased from Mexico for $10 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1803 ||  || Stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border, the enormous Louisiana territory ||   || Louisiana Purchase: Purchased from France for$15 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1818 ||  || Red river basin part of the states later to become parts of Minnesota and North Dakota ||   || Red River Basin: Treaty between Great Britain ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1819 ||  || The long chunk of land at the bottom of America ||   || Florida: Riots and invasion of the natives led to a peace treaty between America and Spain because Spain didn't want to go to war ||   || Non- Peaceful ||
 * 1846 ||  || The huge chunk of land bordering Mexico ||   || Texas: In 1835, fighting broke out between the Mexican Army and Anglo-American colonists who were angry with the Mexican government for attempting to limit the practice of slavery and for violating the Mexican constitution. In 1836 ||   || Non- Peaceful ||
 * 1846 ||  || The piece of land in the Northern West of America bordering Canada ||   || Oregon Country: America and Britain divided it because they neither of them wanted to go to war ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1848 ||  || The piece of land on the West side of America ||   || Mexican Cession: America and Mexico went to war over the land and after 3 weeks it ended with a treaty giving America the area for 15 million dollars. ||   || Non- Peaceful ||
 * My partner was Aksel **
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 * 10) ==1. **Explain ** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this assignment? I thought that the fact that they had very nice houses I used to think that they used to live in only teepee’s ==
 * 11) ==2. **Explain ** one thing you think you did well in this assignment? I think before I worked out where the artifacts were from I made an estimate and I did pretty well on guessing that. ==
 * 12) ==3. **Explain ** one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another assignment like this? I think that I would need to spend more time on writing about the things and not rush as much. ==
 * 13) ==<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4. Why do you think you did this assignment and how did it help you develop one of the competencies? It helped me in problem solving, because we had to figure out the problems and work out where they were from. ==
 * 1) ==<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Explain **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another assignment like this? I think that I would need to spend more time on writing about the things and not rush as much. ==
 * 2) ==<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4. Why do you think you did this assignment and how did it help you develop one of the competencies? It helped me in problem solving, because we had to figure out the problems and work out where they were from. ==

<range type="comment" id="481715">Assignment 10 reflection
 * 1) <range type="comment" id="827739">Did your views of Columbus change during our study of Columbus? Why or Why not? yes they did before this unit I did not know much about him other than he discovered America. Also I did not know about all the treacherous crimes did, like chopping of the natives hands. my perspective changed from I thought that he did not do anything wrong and that what he did was not a big deal because any one else could have done, also i did not know that it was an accident. now I see him as a cruel treacherous person.
 * 2) What is the most persuasive argument that supports your current perspective about Columbus? I think that him torturing natives which only tried to help him. also comparing him to people like Hitler, Mao, Musulini and people like that who did not personally go out and kill hundreds and thousands of people directly but their soldiers did.
 * 3) Do you think it's important to learn different perspectives about people who we think are heroes? Why or Why not? Yes because some people do not deserve to be called hero's if they did things which could prove the opposite. like killing hundreds of people who's only crime was not cooperating or not being able to find all the gold that was expected of them. you could basically say that he was as bad as Hitler, and even though none of them killed people directly they were both definitely not heroes
 * 4) How do you think you will use the idea of perspective as you continue learning history this year and in high school? I think we will use it in the same way as in looking at different perspective to look at big people in history and we will use it to look at different perspectives on stories if they are exaggerated or if they do not tell the full truth