Thank You, Mr. Kannan. Now EVERYTHING Applies to Social Studies!!!!

Okay, so I was listening to my iPod relaxing and such when the song "Sons and Daughters" by the Decemberists played and suddenly I realized- The song is about immigration!!!! IS THERE NO ESCAPE FROM SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS??? here are the lyrics (they're safe, no swearing no adult themes)
When we arrive
Sons & daughters
We'll make our homes on the water
We'll build our walls aluminum
We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon now

These currents pull us 'cross the border
Steady your boats
Arms to shoulder
'till tides are pulled
Hold our grounds
Making this cold harbor now home

Take up your arm
Sons and daughters
We will arise from the bunkers
By land, by sea, by dirigible
We'll leave our tracks untraceable now

When arrive
Sons and daughters
We'll make our lives on the water
We'll build our walls aluminum
We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon

When we arrive
Sons and daughters
We'll make our homes on the water
We'll build our walls aluminum
We'll fill our mouths cinnamon
(when we arrive sons and daughters
We'll make our homes on the water
When we build our walls of aluminum
We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon)

Here all the bombs fade away
Here all the bombs fade away
Here all the bombs fade away
Here all the bombs fade away


I even figured out the push and pull factors!!!!!!!!!!
Push: probably a war of some kind (Hence the reapeating line "Here all the bombs fade away")
Pull: A new beginning (I got that from the line "We'll leave our tracks untraceable" they didn't want their pasts to follow them to their new home, "The cold harbor")
It's a really great song- and now, ITS ABOUT SOCIAL STUDIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
adios-
lucky #2003643

study study study study (Ruby style)

If you want to remember easy facts, make note cards. Also, repeat it in your head. (How else are you going to remember anything). For social studies, you must, must, MUST remember dates and numbers, because they are and could be EXTREMELY important. Don't cram. Study a little everyday, reviewing throughout the day. Link historical facts to everyday things like, oh, people back then had monopolies (they could've played monopoly) when the test comes it might say 'what did people make money from?' and you would remember they played monopoly. (but don't say that on your test please.) When it comes to sections and chapters in the book, take it little by little. Remember the sections and what they cover. Take extreme notes, covering every inch of text your eyes can follow. (It may seem harsh, but do you want a good grade?)



Section 2:

• Business was led by bold entrepreneurs.
• To raise capital, or money, entrepreneurs adopted new ways of organizing business
• Many businesses became corporations
• Corporations limited the risk of investors
• Stockholders receive a share of the profits and pick directors to run the company
• Owners of other types of businesses could lose their savings, homes, and other property if the business failed.
• Stockholders risked only the amount of money they invested
• Banks lent large amounts of capital to corporations, helping making the American industry grow faster, and make huge profits for the bankers
• J. Pierpont Morgan made himself the most powerful force in the American Economy.
• Morgan gained control of key industries (railroad, steel), and in hard times, him and his friends would buy stock in troubled corporations
• They ran companies in ways that eliminated competition and increase profits
• In the 1800's, the government took a laissez-faire approach to business
• Congress rarely made laws to regulate business practices
• Entrepreneurs formed giant corporations and monopolies
• One of the giants of big business was Andrew Carnegie.
• Carnegie worked his way up in the railroad business.
• His companies owned iron mines, steel mills, railroads, and shipping lines
• He believed the rich had a duty to improve society
• He called his philosophy the Gospel of Wealth
• Carnegie donated hundreds of millions of dollars

 To Be Continued...

Book topics!!

How many of you are into Percy Jackson? Well, most of us are!!!! The new series is out and about!!! The Lost hero everyone! New characters include Leo, Piper, and the ever-amazing Jason!! The ever-amazing gods of olympus have new demigod children, who are about to enter the ever dangerous, prophecy... WHERE IS PERCY JACKSON????? WHY CAN"T ANYONE FIND HIM??? AND WHAT THE @#!*&%$$@*^&%^!@ HAPPENED TO HERA????
THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW!!!! (actually, I'm just ranting.We will.) ah... feel the ADHD kick in... PALOMAPALOMAPALOMAPALOMAPALOMAPALOMA
(*shut up Paloma*!!!!!!!)

again... off topic

I explain something to you guys.... our blog isn't JUST about educational stuff... that would be extremely boring, you know? Right now, we'll be posting about (at least mostly) social studies chapters... but we need ideas... we'll talk about everything!!!!! books, food, restaurants, etc. Name a place! We'll go check it out. Name a book, we'll talk about it! Name a rumor, we'll spread it! (not really) Cats, dogs, horses, bears, we love 'em all!!!
We want an everything blog. A place where its random, AND helpful. Now.... ideas anyone? please! Oh! and name video games and other weired stuff you want us to try out. (please don't say jump off a building, or taste rat poison, or shoot the mirror that reflects your ugly face. We are only testing out things someone would ACTUALLY do. So don't even try asking bub.)

Ch 17 & 18- Paloma style!!!!

The constitution test is over now- but S.S. isn't. We are now beginning something new. We have to read Ch. 17 (The West Transformed!!!!! OH BOY!!!) and Ch. 18 (Industry and urban growth!!!!!! Yippee!!!!). These chapters are pretty self explanatory- but we still have to read them, and take notes for extra credit. Here are my notes for Ch. 17 section 1 (Mining & Railroads)

Section 1: Mining and Railroads

• Boom & Bust             

                  -Western settlement: Came in a rush & didnt last long.

• Comstock Lode

                 - 1859: two Irish prospectors find gold
                 - Henry Comstock claims that the gold was found on his property.
                 - The find becomes known as the "Comstock Lode
                 - Silver was then found in some mud at the Comstock Lode
                 - In just 20 years the Comstock Lode produces $300,000,000 worth of silver
                 - This all causes Nevada to to become a center of mining

• Boom Spreads

                 - After the Civil War prospectors spread all over the West
                 - Ores are found in Montana, Idaho, and Colorado and gold is found in the Black Hills in South Dakota. 
                 - Gold discovered in Alaska brings a whole bunch of people
                 - Few become wealthy since the ore was to expensive to extract.
                 - Comstock sells his mining rights for 2 mules and $11,000
                 - Mining becomes a business in the 1880's

• Boom town Life

                 - Tent cities grow around mining
                 - Hotels, Stores, etc. appear near mines
                 - Mining Camps become "boom towns"
                 - Merchants and others follow miners
                 - Boom town stores were not cheap
                 - Even water was expensive since minersfeared drinking polluted water near mines
                 - Women opened restaurants, washed clothes,took in boarders, etc.
                 - Around 1/2 of the miners were foreign born
                 - The foreign Miners faced lots of discrimination

• Frontier Justice

                 - Miners became vigilantes (self appointed law keepers)

                 - Boom town growth causes growth in gov. as well
                 - Sheriffs, marshals, and justices replace vigilantes
                 -Colorado, South Dakota and Nevada became territories in 1861, followed by Arizona and Idaho in 1863 and Montana in 1864.
                 - Ore runs out
                 - The boom towns become ghost towns.

• Railroad Boom

                 - mines and boom towns become railroads with help from the gov.

• Aid to Railroads     

                 - Subsidies: grants of land or money
                 - The federal gov. gave subsidies for every mile of track.
                 - Railroads were given over 180,000,000 acres for production.
                 - The railroads also got gov. loans

• Spanning the Continent

                - Transcontinental railroad: a railroad line that spanned the continent 
                - Immigrate: to move to a foreign region or country
                - Manual: involving work done by hand
                -1862: Leland Stanford & partner won the right to build a line eastward from Sacramento, CA
                - This railroad was known as the Central Pacific.
                - Union Pacific railroad built west from Omaha.
                - Union Pacific attached to Central Pacific and the track stretched from coast to coast.
                -Railroad workers: immigrants from Mexico, Ireland, and china; native born whites, Mexican Americans, African Americans.
                -Work: hazardous, payed little, lots of manual labor.
                - Laborers went through snow & winds to cut through the Sierra Nevada.
                - May 10, 1869: the two lines meet in Promontory, Utah.
                - Stanford put in the last spike with a silver mallet.

• Effects of the Railroads

                - 1864: Nevada became a state.
                - 1876: Colorado became a state.
                - 1889: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington become states.
                - 1890: Idaho and Wyoming become states.
                - People pour in.
                - Gold & Silver pour out.
                - New towns spring up, causing population growth & political changes.

Section 2: Native Americans Struggle to Survive

• People of the Plains

                -360,000 Native Americans, like the Lakotas and Arikaras, lived in the West, mainly the Great Plains.

• Life in Transition

                - Travois: small sleds
                - Tepees: cone-shaped tents made of buffalo skins
                - Transformed: to change in appearance or form, to change the condition of something
                - Spaniards gave Native Americans horses
                - French and British gave them guns
                - Traveling groups carried their belongings on travois, lived in tepees, and followed the buffalo herds
                - Summer: tracked buffalo as they grazed
                - Winter: led buffalo to protected valleys and forests
                - Uses: meat-food, horns and bones- tools, tendons- thread

• Division of Laborers

               - Women: cared for children, managed village life, prepared food, carved tools, made clothing, wise women ruled some tribes.
               - Men: hunters, warriors, led religious life.
               - Sun Dance was a religious ritual which brought many nations together to pledge to the Great Spirit.
               - A crow woman named The Other Magpie rode against the Sioux after they killed her brother.

• Broken Treaties

               - As miners and railroad workers pushed west they broke treaties.

• Fort Laramie Treaty

               - 1851: many nations gather around Fort Laramie, Wyoming, to have a "big talk" with some government officials.
               - The officials said if the Native Americans made a permanent home then they would be protected "as long as the grass shall grow."
               - After the Native American leaders had signed the treaty, settlers moved into their land
               - 1859: The settlers find gold which lured miners to Pikes Paek.

• Sand Creek Massacre

               - 1860's: the US files treaties that would make the Native Americans give up Pikes Peak
               - There was a resistance in the tribes that lead to warriors attacking supply trains and homes.
               - Colonel John Chivington, with the help of 700 volunteers, attacked a group of Cheyennes @ Sand Creek in eastern Colorado.
               - Over 100 completely innocent men, women and children died. 

• Buffalo Soldiers

              - Buffalo soldiers were African American veterans of the Civil War.
              - They fought for 20 years
              - They also captured bandits from Texas to the Dakotas

• End of the Buffalo

              - In the 1870's the buffalo population began to shrink.
              - Hunters killed around 2,000 buffalo a month
              - Railroads fed their crew with buffalo

• Last Stand for Custer and the Sioux

              - New treaties sought to end the wars with the Plains Nations 

• Reservations

              - Reservation: land set aside for Native Americans to live on.
              - Sitting Bull: A Native American leader who, along with Crazy Horse, led attacks to keep whites out of their land.
              - Southern Plains Nations who moved onto the reservations were the Kiowas, Comanches, and Arapahos
              - Those reservations had poor soil that limited growing crops.
              - Cheyennes and Sioux received land in the black hills, but gold was found there so of course- the miners wanted in!

• Little Bighorn

              - June 1876:
              - Colonel Custer goes into Little Bighorn Valley.
              -He is outnumbered but still fights against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. And loses.
              - Custer and all of his men die.
              - "A winter or so later, more soldiers came to round us up on reservations. There were too many of them to fight now." 

• Other Efforts at Resistance

              - Some other nations that came under pressure were the Nez Perces, Navajos, and Apaches.

• The Nez Perces

              - They lived in the middle of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
              - They bred horses and cattle.
              - Many agreed to go to the reservation.
              - 1877: Chief Joseph tried to lead a large band of Nez Perces to Canada.
              - In 75 days they traveled 1,300 miles.
              - The army pursued them and found them.
              - Chief Joseph said "I shall fight no more forever." as he surrendered.

• The Navajos

              - They raised sheep, horses, and cattle.
              - They lived in the Southwest.
              - Some also raide settlers' farms for livestock.
              - To stop raids the settlers called in the army.
              - They were defeated in 1864 in Arizona.
              - The soldiers took them on a "long walk" to a spot near the Pecos River, where they suffered years of disease and hunger.

• The Apaches

              - The Apaches refused to go to a reservation.
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• The Ghost Dance

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• The Failure of Reform

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• Calls for Reform

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• The Dawes Act

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Section 4: Farming in the West

QUESTIONS FROM THE QUIZ!!!

• How much money did the comstock lode produce?
• Miners formed groups of ________ to maintain law and order out west
• The name of the railroad that spanned the continent and connected eastern and western businesses was called?
• Yes or No: Did the U.S. gov. live up to its promise in the Fort Laramie treaty
• What ethnicity were the buffalo soldiers?
• Who said "I shall fight no more forever"?
• What was one reason why the Dawes Act failed?
• Settlers who acquired free land from the U.S. Gov. were called  _  ____.
• Who made up the first granges?
• What was one demand of the populist party?
• Which Candidate did the populist party support in the election of 1896?

Chapter 18 note helpers!

Chapter 18 mainly talks about Industry and Urban growth. Section 1: A new Industrial Revolution
Section 2: Big business and Organized Labor
Section 3: Cities grow and Change
Section 4:The new immigrants
Section 5: Education and Culture
Ready for the biggest chapter so far?

Section 1

• as the nation expanded, conditions were ripe for industrtial growth
• the towering forests of the Pacific Northwest furnished lumber for building
• government policy favored industrial growth
• Congress gave land grants to railroads and other businesses.
• The government kept high tariffs on imports
• Technology was another factor that spurred industrial growth.
• In the 1850's, inventors developed the Bessemer process, a method to make stronger steel at a low cost.
• Steel quickly replaced iron as the basic building material of cities and industry
• Pittsburgh became the nation's steel-making capitol
• Workers near Titusville, Pennsylvania, tapped a new source of energy in 1859
• railroads fueled industrial growth
• Some big lines competed  in business
• High rates angered small farmers who relied on railroads to get their goods on the markets
• All the competition cause traffic

Inventions!!!

• the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera- Thomas Edison
• the telephone- Alexander Graham Bell
• cheaper, stronger shoes- Jam Matzeliger
• Lightweight camera- George Eastman
• the type writer- Christopher Sholes
• the automobile-European engineers
• mass-production cars(assembly line)- Henry Ford
• airplane- Wilbur and Orville Wright (AIR TRAVEL)

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT WAS ONLY SECTION ONE? NEITHER CAN WE!!! AHHHH! aNOTHER FOUR SECTIONS TO GO!!! BUT NOT NOW!!!!

Unrelated topic!

before we post about chapters 17 and 18 (very important) I must say this...
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan is the best book I've ever been reading my entire life!!! I love it!!
alright. back to more important matters...

Awesome, but random pictures of cats

go to icanhascheezburger.com
best website!! EVER!
so... we are learning about the push and pull factors of immigration... SANTA? a mystery....
where is he from, and where did he get his reindeer?
Will this be answered?

industrial revolution!

We are learning about immigration! How wonderful, opening up the unit with monopoly. The one game I am bad at. If you know me, I am not to be trusted with money. Even fake money. Anyways, it opens up, and we learn about push and pull factors for immigration. More will be posted... but I must go now.

the old days

During a conference. There are many things to talk about. One of them are how teachers used to beat their children with rulers. How wonderful. I don't believe teachers can do that anymore. That's illegal. And child abuse. Ahhh the old days... I would have no idea how that was like. Was it better? Maybe. Our teacher believes so... hopefully they won't legalize child abuse. So for now, we are protected from rulers and slapping. Not from detention and suspension, but you should be smart enough not to attempt something that would lead to that.

Dr. Horrible

Dr. Horrible is related to the constitution because in the video, he compliments the lady's hair, which is freedom of speech. He is singing about freezing the world to make it a better place, which is forming a more perfect union. He has a blog... The 1st amendment! Dr.Horrible! Its the freezeray song!

OH NOES!

The constitution is days away! Study! Sorry, if we started this blog earlier, we would've been able to post more!

The Legislative Branch!!!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION!!!!
Article 1 is the legislative branch! Hopefully you knew that already! (you probably did). The Leg. Branch is based on a bicameral system, and  responsible for making the laws for the country.

The House Of Representatives...

1. they are elected by the people.
2. Number of representatives per state is determined by population (1 rep. per 500,000)
3. Representatives must be 25+, a citizen for at least 7 yrs., and a resident of the state.
4. Representatives serve for a term of 2yrs every 2 yrs.
5. House chooses their leader (Speaker of the House)

The House is responsible for impeaching government officials.
The Senate will be posted shortly.

Make the Wiki!

Making a wiki is a sure way to learn about the constitution. Making different pages about words that relate to the constitution and the definitions are a fun! Haha, well kinda. Go to the wiki! Study!


http://108namesconstitution.wikispaces.com/

U'll never ever ever ever study enough!

But let's try anyway! Today we're going to talk about my personal favorite- THE PRINCIPLES!!!!!(keep in mind that its principles as in rules, not a group of principals as in those people who run the schools!) The way i remember the principle is pretty simple, but quite effective. Along with a group of friends, I made a cheer to remember them... Here goes!
P-L-S-C-F-R-I    P-L-S-C-F-R-I    P-L-S-C-F-R-I
P- Popular sovereignty!
L- Limited government!
S- Separation of Powers!
C- Checks & Blalances!
F- Federalism!
R- Republicanism!
I- INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS!!! WOO!!!

Let's Talk about SOCIAL STUDIES!!!

Do you enjoy Social Studies? Well you should! Why? BECAUSE WE SAID SO.
No... Because it's FUN! But only if you have our teacher.
LEARN LEARN LEARN YOU AWFUL CHILDREN! we have the kind of teacher who will give us extra credit for this crappy blog!!! Woohoo! So let's make it a little less crappy.
WITH MY FREEZERAY I WILL STOP
THE WORLD!
NOW.... back on track.... P.s. Mr kannan, can we watch dr horrible in class?
We have a lot to cover... but our fingers hurt so we'll post it later..
LATER!

The Constitution!

We made this blog because we are having a MAJOR constitution test... and would like extra credit.
We will post info on our blog if you want some 'helpful' tips.
Today we will name the 6 goals of the constitution:
1) Form a more perfect Union
2) Establish justice
3) Insure domestic tranquility
4) Provide for the common defense
5) Promote the general welfrare
6) Secure the blessings of liberty
NOW STUDY!
Remember the preamble!
We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constituion for the United States of America.