The Civil War… Continued
Entry 1 - 1/27/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 11 Pg 368
Why did the Confederacy stop exchanging captured soldiers?
What was Andersonville?
Why is the Battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point of the war?
Entry 2 - 1/28/2026 - Gettysburg Address
Read the address and answer these questions.
When does Lincoln give this speech?
What happened “Four score and seven years ago”?
How many times does Lincoln use the word “nation”?
How many times does Lincoln repeat the words, “we” and “us”?
Why is Lincoln at the battlefield? (what are they there to dedicate?)
What is the “unfinished work” he mentions?
1/29/2026 - Assignment
Civil War Battles
Entry 3 - 1/30/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 11 Pg 379
What was Sherman’s goal during his famous March to the Sea?
Who ran against Lincoln in the election of 1864?
What was the 13th Amendment?
Where did Robert E Lee surrender to Grant?
Reconstruction Era
Entry 4 - 2/2/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 12 Pg 387
What was left of the Southern economy after the Civil War?
Compare both Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction with the Radical Republicans.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
How was Lincoln able to prevent the bill from becoming a law?
Entry 5 - 2/3/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 12 Pg 380
Who assassinated Lincoln?
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? Pg 389
How did President Johnson change the plan for Reconstruction?
Wednesday 2/4/2026 - Assignment
Reconstruction WebQuest1
Video - Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War
Entry 6 - 2/5/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 12 Pg 393
What are Black Codes?
Why did Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
What was the Military Reconstruction Act?
How did the Tenure of Office Act lead to Johnson’s impeachment?
Friday 2/6/2026 - Assignment
Impeachment Worksheet
2/9/2026 - Registration for Senior year
Registration forms due on Friday
Entry 7 - 2/10/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 12 Pg 395
What is the 15th Amendment?
What is the difference between a carpetbagger and a scalawag?
Why was it claimed that “Black Republicanism” ruled the south?
Wednesday - 2/11/2026 - Assignment
Reconstruction WebQuest2
Entry 8 - 2/12/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 12 Pg 404
Why did Congress create “sin taxes”?
How was Hayes able to win the election of 1876?
What deal was agreed upon that is considered the Compromise of 1877?
Define Tenant farmers and Share Croppers.
Quiz Tomorrow
Entry 9 - 2/17/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 415
What is the difference between Quartz and Placer mining?
Why did towns have to create Vigilance committees?
What is Open Range?
Entry 10 - 2/18/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 416
What were the attitudes of ranching on the Great Plains in the early 1800s?
What helped change those attitudes?
Why did cattle ranchers not round up longhorns before the Civil War?
2/19/2026 - US and MT maps worksheet in class
Friday 2/20/2026 - Assignment
Cowboy Cattle Drive WebQuest
Entry 11 - 2/23/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 419
Why did ranchers first see barbed wire as a threat than an opportunity?
What was the Homestead Act?
Why did the US pass the Morrill Act? Pg 422
2/24/2026 - Assignment
Closing of the Frontier
2/25 - 2/26 - 2/27 - Movie
Entry 12 - 3/2/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 425
What is a nomad?
What led to the Dakota uprising?
Why did Red Cloud attack troops in Wyoming in 1866?
Entry 13 - 3/3/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 428
Why was the Indian Peace Commission doomed to fail?
Why was George Custer sent to Southeast Montana?
3/4/2026 - Assignment
CM Russell Artwork
Entry 14 - 3/5/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 13 Pg 429
How did the Ghost Dance result in the tragedy at Wounded Knee?
How did the US government think the situation on the plains would improve with the Native Americans?
What was the Dawes Act?
Monday 3/9/2026
American West Review
Quiz Tuesday
Entry 1 - 3/11/2026 - Ol Blue CH 14 Pg 436
1. In 1860, roughly how many Americans worked in Industrial jobs?
2. What is a country’s Gross National Product?
3. What factors contributed to America’s Industrial success between the Civil War and 1914?
4. What is meant by Laissez Faire economics?
Entry 2 - 3/12/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 14 Pg 439
How was the US able to industrialize much faster in the mid-1800s than European countries did?
Identify the importance of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison?
What changes occurred during the Civil War with regards to clothing?
Friday - 3/13/2026 - Assignment
Gilded Age WebQuest
Entry 3 - 3/16/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 14 Pg 448
What is a corporation?
Why is it an advantage for a business to become a corporation?
What is the difference between fixed and operating costs?
What is the difference between vertical and horizontal integration?
Entry 4 - 3/17/2026 - Ol Blue CH 14 Pg 454
What was life like for industrial workers in the later 1800s?
What is deflation?
What are trade and industrial unions?
What led to the Railroad strike of 1877?
Wednesday 3/18/2026 - Assignment
In the late 1800s, wealthy capitalists might have been referred to as either “Captains of Industry” or “Robber Barons.” Identify what those terms meant specific to the Gilded Age (late 1800s).
Then, Complete the following document based questions about some of the Industrialists from that era.
Industrialist DBQ
Entry 5 - 3/19/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 15 Pg 465
By 1900, where were most of the immigrants from Europe coming from?
What were some of the “push and pull” factors that affected immigration?
What is Steerage?
Where did most immigrants come through upon arriving in the United States?
Entry 6 - 3/23/2026 - Ol Bue Ch 15 Pg 468
What is Nativism?
Why were rural Americans moving to the cities?
What are Tenements?
Tuesday - 3/24/2026 - Project
Gilded Age Movie Poster - Due Friday
Entry 7 - 3/25/2026 - Ol Blue Ch 15 Pg 477
What is individualism?
How did Herbert Spencer add a twist to Darwin’s theory of evolution?
Friday - 3/27/2026 - Gilded Age Video
Movie Poster project is due today!
