SS+8B-Mark

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 * ~ 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 ||  || Stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. ||   || Louisiana Purchase: Purchased from France for $15 million ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1818 ||  || A small chunk of land under the Canadian border in central Canada ||   || Red River Basin: Treaty with Great Britain ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1819 ||  || The land of Florida underneath the 13 colonies ||   || Florida: Fought for in the beginning by the Spanish, British, and the US but then the US got the land from a treaty from the Spanish and paid $5 million for damages. ||   || Both peaceful and non-peaceful ||
 * 1845 ||  || Texas, located just above Mexico, southwest of America. ||   || Texas Annexation: Mexico didn't want American immigrants on Texas and fought them. Eventually, Texas became independent but was under the threat of Mexico. In the end, Texas asked America if they could be part of them. ||   || Non- Peaceful ||
 * 1846 ||  || Oregon Country was a portion of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains in the northwest portion of the present-day United States. ||   || Oregon Country: Both Americans and British settled in Oregon, but the Americans wanted the land for themselves. So instead they proposed to split the land. The British rejected, but in the end accepted the proposal. ||   || Peaceful ||
 * 1848 ||  || The Mexican Cession included land that would later become California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming ||   || Mexican Cession: After America got Texas, there was a dispute between America and Mexico over boundaries. In the beginning, there was a war for the land for about a year. Later, America and Mexico signed a treaty and America bought the land for $15 million. ||   || Peaceful and non- peaceful ||
 * My partner was Jae Sung**

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Assignment 10- Reflection

 * Directions:** Whether you think Christopher Columbus is a hero or villain, or guilty or not guilty of crimes against humanity, what is known is that when he landed in the New World in 1492, the world changed forever. Please answer the following reflection questions __**on your wiki page**__ clearly and with details.

Yes they did, this is because I found out the truth about Columbus. Of how he led thousands of innocent girls into sexual slavery or how he ordered his men to cut of peoples hands just because they didn't find enough gold to satisfy him. I think the most persuasive argument was from the news article number one which described what Columbus did and gave us actual information rather than just saying that he was a villain. It said that he had committed genocide and overall crimes against humanity. .Yes i do, because if we only see it from one perspective you won't know the whole story. For example if we had only learnt about Columbus from the Europeans viewpoint we would all consider him a hero but since we were also given the native Americans point of view we would never have learnt about how cruel he was and how many crimes he committed such as genocide and many more.
 * Did your views of Columbus change during our study of Columbus? Why or Why not?
 * What is the most persuasive argument that supports your current perspective about Columbus?
 * Do you think it's important to learn different perspectives about people who we think are heroes? Why or Why not?

I think I will use the idea of perspective this year and in high school in many projects that have two different sides of the story. Like in a war it would be immensely helpful if you knew the reasons each side had of starting a war another example is Columbus. When we were given the two perspective's we could then be able to make an informed choice on if we thought he was a hero or not.
 * How do you think you will use the idea of perspective as you continue learning history this year and in high school?

**__Unit 1 Assignment 2__**

I found it interesting how all the different regions had very different cultures even though they were right next to each other. I think I did well on the research about with regions went with which foods, houses or clothing. Why do you think you did this assignment and how did it help you develop one of the competencies? If I had to do this assignment over I would make my diary entries a little more detailed in terms of perspective of the person shown on the placard. I think this assignment will help improve my problem solving and use of numbers and data skills because we had data and we were given the problem to solve which regions all the data came from.  One thing I found surprising was that you not only needed to label your birthplace but also find the distances between your birthplace and places you have visited. **I think I did well on the distances between my birthplace to five other places that I have visited and the numbers are pretty close to the actual distances.** 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? I don't think that I need to improve anything in my project. I think I used communication and problem solving in this project, because I used the poster to communicate where I was born and lived and also places I've visited and touched and I think I used problem solving to find the distance between my birthplace and places I've visited.
 * Explain** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this assignment?
 * Explain** one thing you think you did well in this assignment?
 * Explain** one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another assignment like this?
 * __Unit 1 Assignment 1__**
 * Explain** one thing that you found most interesting or surprising while doing this project?
 * Explain** one thing you think you did well in this project?
 * Explain** one thing you think you need to improve if you were to do another project like this?