SS+8B+Cedar

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 * Assignment 3, Unit 4: **
 * Directions: Your task is to figure out how the United States expanded from the Treaty of Paris in 1783 to what it is now in 2013. Fill in the table below to figure out the different ways the United States expanded to its present form. **

Mexico for $10 million ||=  || Peaceful ||
 * Highlight, copy, and paste the chart below and add it to your wikipage. Then fill it out using this resource: Interactive Map. (Don't include the Treaty of Paris) **
 * ~ Year ||~  ||~ Which area (N,S,E,W)? Size? (be specific) ||~   ||~ Name & how the territory was gained. ||~   ||~ Peaceful or Non-Peaceful ||
 * 1803 ||  || The midwest area in the USA ||   || Louisiana Purchase: the french offered to sell 828,000 square miles of the Louisiana territory for the price of $15 million. ||   || Peaceful. ||
 * 1818 ||  || A small strip of land in the north east above the Louisiana purchase. ||   || Red River Basin: They signed a treaty with the british to receive this area of land. ||   || Peaceful. ||
 * 1819 ||  ||   ||   || Florida....... ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   || Non-peaceful ||
 * = 1853 ||=  ||= Small strip of land in southern USA ||=   ||= Gadsden Purchase: Purchased from
 * = 1853 ||=  ||= Small strip of land in southern USA ||=   ||= Gadsden Purchase: Purchased from
 * = 1853 ||=  ||= Small strip of land in southern USA ||=   ||= Gadsden Purchase: Purchased from
 * My partner was Dacia. **
 * My partner was Dacia. **
 * My partner was Dacia. **

The definition of forced migration or relocation is a large movement of a community of people from their home to another region. State policy or international authority usually imposes forced migration. In the nineteenth century, United States government remove a large amount of indigenous Native Americans to federally owned Indian reservations. Cultural Assimilation-this is when indigenous people have to change their cultural to fit in with the one they are stuck in. George Washington and Henry Know were the first men to decide to change the Native Americans to follow their cultural, they did this through education mostly, telling them the new ways of like and so on. Cultural Genocide- is when a culture is brought to an end/killed/destroyed, i.e. 1890 the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee by the United States military, the indigenous population declined largely, mostly from disease. Manifest destiny- this is the belief Americans followed that the United States would grow through the North American continent. An example is in the 1840s when the USA had war with Mexico, to convert slavery into Texas. ||
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__Assignment 5- Diaries from Multiple Perspectives__

 * = **Who** ||= **Date** || **Diary Entry** ||
 * = Kunte Kinte ||= May 1763 || 1.The sun is out, it is a warm day and the village is dancing with colors. After I finish my chores my mother and father said I can hang out in the fields with my friends. The fields are grassy, green, free they hold secrets, they have something I will have once I am a man, they have freedom. Today I must gather firewood for my mother to cook dinner, tend to the sheep and goats, and help with dinner. The goats and sheep live in the free green fields, I envy them sometimes they have nothing to worry about except for the leopards. I saw my first leopard the other day I tried to shoot it though it flew away into the darkness and my arrow was lost to a sheep. The sheep should be happy they have us to protect them, without us they would be vulnerable, they would be weak, they would die. Firewood is in the forest, the forest holds secrets too, but the forest is also dark, things lurk in the forest, I have heard many stories about them, enough stories for me to know that I have to be quiet in the forest because the forest can steal my secrets. I hear my mothers footsteps coming into the hut, so I must save the rest of my thoughts for later, I will be back though, but now I must search for firewood. ||
 * = Kunte Kinte ||= Dec. 1767 || 2. It is so hot on this canoe house. I used to love warm weather, the sun beating on the back of my neck, the small tingling burn that licks my skin, but this is a different this is a heat that burns and eats my skin, I find my body soaked in sweat. I can't escape the heat. I am tied with chains that turn my skin into a bloody pulp. I thought that once I was a man I would be free, I thought I knew the forest, but I didn't, I knew there were secrets, but I was a man now and I could defeat all the monsters, but not the white man, the white man always won. So do chains. No matter how hard to you work to escape from them they pull you back to the hard wood. They pull you back to the hard reality of life now on this canoe house. My throat burns with the stench of my own blood and food, I can barley breathe, my words have turned into grumbles and mumbles. Sometimes they free us from the chains, they let us see the sun. I used to love the water too, but when we come up from the boat, and they pour the water through our skin, I only feel pain, I only feel my body burning away. The pain is blinding, and then they force us to jump, to dance, it's an ugly dance they make us do, are feet beat against the ground unevenly, the dance is a mess of jumbled movements, it splinters our feet. The other day we tried to fight against them. We pushed and wrestled, and I threw a knife at a man and killed him, I thought it would help, but it only ended with more blood as the white man became angry and shot us down and killed Wrestler. Wrestler was the one man I knew that had no fear, the one man that would never be defeated, but he was, I can't imagine what will happen to me. ||
 * = Mr. Slater ||= Aug. 1767 || 4.My heart is giddy with the excitement to reach land. The water turns my stomach around and around, a dizzy sensation. I can't wait to capture these animals, to train them, to help them. These Africans need our help, our guidance, they are monstrous creatures, they have no sense of right or wrong, they eat each other, they make only noises, they have no words, no religion, nothing that makes them like us. They need our teachings, our ideas, our rights from wrongs, they need us. I can tell Captain Davies is insecure with taking these animals, he doesn't realize that what we are doing is for the best. Earlier we were in the bottom of the boat, this is the most disgusting part of the boat, filled with dust, dirt, spiders, bugs, webs, this is the part for the Africans, we want to give them a place that feels similar to their home, they are used to sleeping in the dirt. Captain Davies and I were talking in the moist air of the lower deck. This is Captain Davies first slave voyage, he wants to be to nice to them, he refuses to use thumb screws, he says that humans should not be treated that way, but he doesn't realize that these are not humans, these are creatures, these are strong animals that can only perform manual labor, they have no brain, no thoughts, they like working for us it gives them a purpose. ||
 * = Capt. Davies ||= Dec. 1767 || 5. My nose is filled with their smell, blood, vomit, sweat, and dirt, but I can't tell if the dirt is from us white men who are dirty from sin of what we are doing to these people, or if it is the dirt that they are born with. I wish I had stayed home. I remember my bed, my bathroom, my kitchen, my family, myself. They have all been taken away from me and replaced with things I can not even recongnize. I barley remember what I have done, I have become a slave to alcohol, I know it is bad, that I am a sinner, but it helps me forget the rest of my sins. Mr Slater has pushed me to do many things that I wished I did not do, but I can barley remember them now, only flashes and scraps come back at times. Today was a messy day, blood is still splattered all around the boat. The stench of death still sticks to my skin. Mr Slater died today, I can not say I was his biggest fan, but he was the only one here that really knew what he was doing, it was his 19th trip, he was not a trustworthy man, but he had knowledge that the rest of us didn't have. I am scared now, honestly, my body shakes, I want to go home. I want to take all of my sins back, I want to retrieve my innocence that I have lost out in sea, but I know no matter how much I pray, wish, plead, I can not go back into the past. So I must finish this voyage somehow, and I must find a way to hide my fear, my sins, myself. ||
 * = **Sample****(Kadi Touray)** ||= Aug. 1765 || My family and I are still on our way to Kerewan but I'm not sure how much farther we still have to go. Luckily, we accidentally met a local villager named Kunte Kinte who told me that it's one day to Kerewan. The interesting thing is how we met this young man. He knocked Fanta over and spilled our water and knocked over our millet as he was chasing a bird for his manhood training. He obviously needs to learn to run faster because I easily caught up to him and dragged him back to apologize to Fanta for knocking her over. After he clumsily put our stuff back, he bid us farewell and took off again after his bird. I did notice that Fanta gave our visitor a strange look. Perhaps she has been struck by the love arrow. If we do meet Kunte Kinte again, I will make sure he is the right man for my beloved daughter. ||

Your World Assignment 2
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 * 1) **Explain** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this project?
 * 2) **Explain** one thing you think you did well in this project?
 * 3) **Explain** one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another project like this?
 * 4) Name at least **two life skills** you think you practiced on during this project. How did you practice these life skills during this project? Be specific.

=My Answers:= ====1) For me it was interesting to put my life in perspective. It allowed me to see where I have been and where I want to go. I thought that I had been all around the world because my world has always been in the United States. I have been many places in the US, but not many places out of North America. I have lived in a very closed area all of my life and I like seeing the world and where I am in it. And where I expect myself to be in a few years.====

2) I think I did well on getting my work done on time. I worked on it over the weekend and used my time as wisley as I could during class. Allowing me time to get other work done.

3) I think I need to improve on making my work more neat, like less crowded. Sometimes when I am working on a project I get all these ideas and I want to use them all and so then my work can come out looking messy.

4) This project helped me work on getting something in on time. The project had a deadline and so I couldn't put it off everyday I had to work on getting it done on a certain time. Also it helped with working with a lot of people not like with them but they are working and you are working so you respect their needs you must be quiet and do your work. It made you respect the people around you and not distract them. It teaches you to be mindful of others and in the real world after school and during school you have to be mindful of others, you have to respect others for them to respect you.