SS+8F-Erik

geo quiz link: http://www.quizgeo.com/quiz/612/-southernly-americas-

mountains and the Mississippi (828,000,000 square miles) ||  || Louisiana territory was bought form the french at the price of $15 million. the deal was sealed on April 30, 1803 ||  || peaceful || the area above mexico (the state of texas). ||  || before 1836 the republic of Texas was under spanish ownership and part of the mexican government but after 1837 Texas stated to be an independent state but where never recognized as a independent state by the mexican Government. In 1845, the Republic of Texas voluntarily asked to become a part of the United States ||  || not peaceful || the costal area under the thirteen colonies. ||  || The area of florida was fought over by the U.S, Spain and Brittan. after some time of fighting the land became part of the U.S. the U.S and spain signed a peace treaty and the U.S later paid the Spanish $5 million for the damges. ||  || both peaceful and non peaceful ||
 * ~ 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 ||  || Louisiana purchase area between Rocky
 * 1845 ||  || Texas annexation
 * 1848 ||  || Mexican cession ||   || after one year of fighting over land that belonged to spain and the mexican government (also spanish) Spain and the U.S reached a agreement that included that the land between the state of texas to the cost became parts of the U.S. ||   || not peaceful ||
 * 1846 ||  || Oregon treaty the land between the rocky mountains and the pacific ocean. ||   || the state was divided up in two part were the U.S go one half and Britain got the other part after almost one year of negotiation. ||   || peaceful ||
 * 1818 ||  || red river Basin ||   || the area was gained by the U.S in a treaty signed with the British. ||   || peaceful ||
 * 1819 ||  || Florida treaty
 * 1867 ||  || Alaska the chunk of land above Canada ||   || The U.S negotiated with Britain and Russia and later bought Alaska for $7.2 million. ||   || peaceful ||

US war map
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african map
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Notable city's Map
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Mr T i am having some major problems with the Mygreatmap.com website, because every time i save it just frezes so every time i have done the work and press save the info gets frozen and unable to upload so that is why this is a screen shot taken before saving.=====

date: 12/1/ 2011
map 2 physical map my first map (political) media type="custom" key="11523274"

Erik Nygren
S.s 8F date: 8/29/2011

Assignment 10- Reflection

 * 1) Did your views of Columbus change during our study of Columbus? Why or Why not?
 * 2) What is the most persuasive argument that supports your current perspective about Columbus?
 * 3) Do you think it's important to learn different perspectives about people who we think are heroes? Why or Why not?
 * 4) How do you think you will use the idea of perspective as you continue learning history this year and in high school?

Answer:
 * 1) I did no really have any "view" of Columbus before this assignment because i had never really been thought about him but during this assignment my view of him changed quiet much because in the begging of this assignment we only saw him from one prospective but later as we started changing prospective i stated to diss like him for his actions.
 * 2) Columbus should not be presented in school as a hero because he killed, raped and enslaved a whole population on some islands in central America for gold that never really existed in large quantities, he might have not done this with his bare hands but he had total control over his soldiers and crew and could have changed what they did to the native people and because of this he was put in jail in Spain but bribed his way out and came back to the islands with even more men and dogs
 * 3) yes because that makes you choose your own opinions help you decide if he/she should really be called a "hero"
 * 4) i think this will help me because history is usually written by the "winner" or majority so this has helped me that i should also look in the prospective of the ones that was the ones who were brought down or lost like the native people.

=__Assignment 2__= Now that you are finished with your Native American artifact investigation, I would like you to reflect on this assignment. Please answer the following questions clearly **on your wiki page**.
 * 1) **Explain** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this assignment?
 * 2) **Explain** one thing you think you did well in this assignment?
 * 3) **Explain** one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another assignment like this?
 * 4) Why do you think you did this assignment and how did it help you develop one of the competencies?


 * 1) in this assignment i found it very interesting that with all the artifacts that the pictures gave us we could very easily pick out the right area the tribe belonged to, and the most fascinating thing was that it was usually that small things like what the cloths were made of or what kind of tools they were using that made you figure out what area the tribe was located.
 * 2) in this assignment i think i was the best at finding what tribe belonged to what area by using the climate the tribe lived in.
 * 3) the thing i need to improve is to write the story line for the state because the stories i wrote where very boring and dry.
 * 4) =====I think this assignment should be under the**// team work //** competencies because we worked in groups of 2 and we needed to shear ideas and thought with your partner to find the right answer. =====

Erik Nygren
S.S 8F Date: 8/22 2011 = = =__Assignment 2__= Now that you are finished with your poster, I would like you to reflect on this project. Please answer the following questions clearly **on your wiki page**.
 * 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) Which one of the competencies (Teamwork, Use of Technology, Communication, Problem Solving, Use of Numbers and Data) do you think you worked on during this project? Why do you think so?


 * 1) In this project I found it very interesting that now day a person could practicably travel any where, and that me my self had travelled to so many places.
 * 2) I think my map was the thing I made the best.
 * 3) The thing I needed to improve the most was the little card with the land marks I think if I added some collar to it it would be much better.
 * 4) I would say **use of numbers and data** because in this project we mostly used the facts about our self to make the map and time line.