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=WELCOME TO MY WIKI = 

28. April. 2013

Assignment 3- expansion

 * ~ Year ||~  ||~ Which area? Size? (be specific) ||~   ||~ Name & how was the territory gained. ||~   ||~ Peaceful or Non-Peaceful ||
 * 1853 ||  || Small strip of land in southern Arizona ||   || Gadsden Purchase: Purchased from Mexico for $10 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1803 ||  || 828,000 square miles, stretched from Canadian border to Gulf of Mexico, huge area which doubled the US at the time ||   || Louisiana Purchase: purchased from France for $15 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1818 ||  || small piece of land left over from the Louisiana territory ||   || Red River Basin: Britain and US signed a convention to settle some issues ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1819 ||  || One of the smaller treaties, the treaty covered the area of Florida ||   || Florida: Spain and US signed Adam-Onis treaty, and the US paid $5 million, although US did fight native tribes in the area ||   || peaceful and non peaceful ||
 * 1845 ||  || Covered the whole area of Texas, and a tiny bit of other current states ||   || Texas Annexation: Texas voluntarily asked the US to become part of their country. Although the States went to war with Mexico to fight for the real border of Texas. ||   || peaceful and non peaceful ||
 * 1846 ||  || North west of the present day US, and was between pacific ocean and Rocky mountains ||   || Oregon Country: ||   ||   ||

24. April. 2013

Revolutionary tweet
(My) Nicaraguan revolution Libyan Revolution

Assignment 8


 * Relocation is the forced movement of a large group of people from one region to another. The United States government removed a number of Native Americans to federally owned and designated Indian reservations.Forced assimilation is a process of forced cultural assimilation. Between 1790 and 1920 the United States tried to transform Native American culture into European American culture.Cultural genocide is the mass destruction of a whole culture and its people. An example is the massacre of the Sioux by the United States military.During the 19th century the belief of Manifest destiny was held by Americans, they thought that the United States was destined to expand across the continent guided by god. **

__MY WORLD ASSIGNMENT 2__

 * 1) **Explain** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this project? While doing this project I was surprised by a fact that I put in my timeline. I did not know that the war in Sri Lanka against the terrorist group Tamil tigers was 27 years long. I knew that there was a war against the terrorists, but i thought it was only a few years long. The other fact that was interesting to me that Osama bin Laden was declared dead on my birthday, may.1.
 * 2) **Explain** one thing you think you did well in this project? I think that I did a good job on collecting interesting facts on my timeline, and that my legend and all the dots on the map are simple and easy to see. Those are two things that i think I did well and are important to me.
 * 3) **Explain** one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another project like this? I would try to make the look of my project a little neater, in general. I do like it but I would may be color it in a little nicer, and space my facts out a little bit more that it is easier to read. In general I think i did a good job, I am proud of the progress I made while working on this project, and I think that this was a fun and nice project to do.
 * 4) Name at least **two life skills** you think you practiced during this project. How did you practice these life skills during this project? Be specific. I practiced writing and researching on this project, these were probably the two most important skills I used while working on this project. Writing because I wrote sentences, facts, and labeled titles and places. So writing was definitely one of the major skills I practiced during this project. Researching was the other, I had around 8 facts about what happened in the world during my life. Although I only had to go to Wikipedia and search up the years, it was probably a skill I will have to use further on in life. These were two life skills I practiced during this project.


 * = **Who** ||= **Date** || **Diary Entry** ||
 * = Kunte Kinte ||= May 1763 || 1. It is starting to get light outside, and I have to start milking the goats and gather the chickens eggs. As I walk to the small chicken pen I notice a few fevers, I take a look at the chickens and see that one has disappeared. The small wall made out of twigs is broken, it could have been an african wild cat, I shall immediately report to father after the goats are molken. I come back for breakfast, tell father about the chicken and have my usual millets with goat milk. It is almost 9:00 am, I have to herd the goats to the usual hill they graze on. As I arrive I see Kimbumba herding his goats, I talk to him and together we tend our goats, as the day passes we realize it is time to get back. After a short walk we arrive at the village, I put the goats back in their pen and start gathering fire wood for the evening. At the well I refill the pots mother gave me and return to our hut. Mother boils the water and makes a porridge out of the millet and milk, we shall eat this together with some goat meat. Dinner is finished, and i can go play with my friends for a while. ||
 * = Kunte Kinte ||= Aug. 1765 || 2. I wake up and sense that I am becoming a man already, I only have to prove myself one more time and have the ceremony. I attend breakfast quickly, we get more than usual because it's the last day. Kimbumba my friend has already arrived and told me to report to the training area quickly. I am excited, it's the last test. It's the usual obstacle course, but this time heavy bags of sand are strapped around us. To make it worse, we have to wrestle against a guard of the camp after every two obstacles. I finish a little faster than Kimbumba, I guess we have grown up now and will not herd goats together anymore. After a small lunch we go to the ceremonial area, there we have to get our "fotos" cut, they apply a pain easing paste, and cut a bit with a strange looking knife. It is done, I am a man now. All there is to do now is pack up and walk back to the village. ||
 * = Kunte Kinte ||= Dec. 1767 || 3. ||
 * = Capt. Davies ||= Aug. 1767 || 4. Early morning, the crew has spotted Cape Verde a chain of Islands to the west of Gambia. I'm happy to know that it will only take us a few more days un till we reach the port and can collect the slaves. I've never seen slave traders before, I wonder what they are like? Probably mean and racist like Mr. Slater, I hope they treat the blacks better than the crew described. "Breakfast" I hear one of the crew shout, I hope it's not he porridge and bread again. I have not had fresh meat, fruit or vegetables since weeks. For the rest of the day I am not doing a lot, I could play cards with Slater, or talk with the crew. At dinner I had an interesting conversation with the cook of the ship, he told me that once the slaves started a revolt, and that they killed the captain and took one of the small boats and paddled back to Africa. I hope this does not happen when we will start loading up the blacks. ||
 * = Mr. Slater ||= Dec. 1767 || 5. It's been 2 weeks already, the slaves are chained up nicely and I have not sensed any revolts yet. It's a good journey un till now. Except the Captain, he has some sympathy with the Ns when they come out and exercise. I'll check the lower decks if one of those cannibals has already died would not want the bodies to rot. Towards noon we start bringing out those bastards to exercise, in small groups so we can control them. Once their out I give my whip to the captain and tell him to make the small female exercise a little faster. He has to get tougher and be able to handle these bastards himself. All the Ns have had their exercise, and it is starting to get dark. I think dinner will be soon, we'll have some type of African bird with the usual millets we bring with us for food. After dinner I gamble with the crew, Have some rum, and have one of the females warm my bed. ||
 * = **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. ||