Daily Entries

Expect to have Entry Questions most days. Record these into your notebooks and include the Entry Number and Date!!

I collect entries before every quiz. these are our daily grade and by the end of a quarter or semester account for a lot of points!!

Assignments will also be posted on these pages under the dates they are assigned.


Entry 1  9/3/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 1 sec 1

  1.  What did the folsom discovery prove?

  2. Where did the earliest Americans most likely come from?

  3. How do we know how old the bones and other objects are?

  4. How did life change about 10,000 years ago for early humans living in America?

Entry 2 - 9/5/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 1 Sec 1 & 2 - Pg 15

  1. Who were the Hohokam people?

  2. What do scientists believe cause the Anasazi civilization to collapse?

  3. Choose 3 tribes from the map on page 22 and research 5 facts about each?

Entry 3 - 9/9/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 1 Pg 36

  1. What 4 new technologies allowed the Europeans to explore the world in the 1400s?

  2. Which nation was the first to find a sea route to Asia?

  3. Who was Leif Erickson?

  4. Who was Claudius Ptolemy?

Entry 4 - 9/10/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 1 Pg 39-40

  1. What was the goal of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage?

  2. What did Columbus bring back across the Atlantic on his second voyage?

  3. Why was the Treaty of Tordesillas created?

  4. How did the Columbian Exchange affect both continents?

Entry 5 - 9/12/2024 - Ol Blue CH 2 Pg 50

  1. Who was Hernan Cortes?

  2. What drove the Spanish to travel further inland throughout North America?

  3. Describe the Encomienda System?

  4. What type of trade brought encouraged the French to settle in North America?



Assignment

Friday 9/13/2024 - Friday the 13th!!

Early English Colonization WebQuest

Click on this link - which opens up a pdf doc. the answers to those questions will be found on the link listed on the doc. or click on the link below

https://www.americanyawp.com/text/02-colliding-cultures/

Entry 6 - 9/16/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 2 Pg 61

  1. What are privateers?

  2. What were the results of the first attempts to colonize North America by the English?

  3. What was the first successful English colony?

Entry 7 - 9/17/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 2 Pg 62

  1. How did Virginia Company “entice” settlers to move to America in 1609?

  2. How did John Rolfe help change Jamestown?

  3. What was the headright system?

  4. Who were the Separatists? - sec 2

Entry 8 - 9/18/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 2 Pg 68

  1. How was the Massachusetts Bay colony governed?

  2. What is a Heretic?

  3. Why was Anne Hutchinson banished?

13 Colonies Project

Entry 9 - 9/19/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 2 Pg 71

  1. WHY DID THE KING PHILIP’S WAR BREAK OUT?  

  2. WHY WAS THE COLONY OF GEORGIA CREATED? - 76 

Entry 10 - 9/23/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 3 Pg 87

  1. Describe life of the early indentured servants in the colonies.

  2. What did Governor Berkeley do that angered the poorer backcountry farmers?

Entry 11 - 9/24/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 3 Pg 98

  1. How was a country to become wealthy and powerful under Mercantilism?

  2. Under Charles II, what did the Navigation Act require of the colonists?

  3. What arguments did John Locke make against the monarchy? - 101-102

9/25/2024

Quiz Tomorrow - over all of your entry questions. Complete the review below

Quiz Review

Entry 1 - 9/30/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 117

  1. What led to the start of the French and Indian War?

  2. What was the Albany Plan of Union?

Tuesday 10/1/2024

Video - War that made America - French and Indian War

Wednesday 10/2/2024

Assignment - French and Indian War WebQuest


Early political cartoon

By Benjamin Franklin

frenchandindian war.jpg

Entry 2 - 10/8/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 119

  1. Why did the Royal Proclamation of 1763 anger the colonists?

  2. Why did the colonists complain about the Sugar Act?

  3. What was the Stamp Act?

Entry 3 - 10/9/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 4, Pg 122

  1. What are writs of assistance?

  2. What was the committee of correspondence? - Pg 127

  3. Why did the British pass the Coercive Acts


Thursday 10/10/2024 - Assignment

Patrick Henry WebQuest

Entry 4 - 10/14/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 130

  1. Why did the British send troops to Lexington and Concord?

  2. What was the Olive Branch Petition?

  3. How did Thomas Paine help change public opinion about Independence?


In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense. . . .

I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great-Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.

Entry 5 - 10/15/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 139

  1. Identify 3 advantages that both the Colonists and British had going into the Revolution

  2. What did the British need to do in order to end the war quickly?

  3. Who did Washington attack on Christmas 1776?

From Chapter 4 in Ol Blue, look through the Declaration of Independence and answer the following questions  - Pg 134

  1. Historians have agreed that the Declaration of Independence is divided into four main sections. Skim the document and determine the general content of each of the four sections;   

  2. What is the purpose of the introductory paragraph  

  3. What are unalienable rights?  

  4. According to Thomas Jefferson, who has the right to create a government?  

  5. Complete the following sentence from the Declaration.  "Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to...”  

  6. What does that sentence above mean?  

  7. According to Jefferson, what is the purpose of a government?  

  8. In the final part, list the four things that, according to Jefferson, "Free and Independent States" should have the power to do. 

Entry 6 - 10/21/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 141

  1. Where did the Continental Army spend its winter during the firsts years of the war?

  2. Which battle proved to be a turning point of the war?

  3. Why was that battle considered a turning point?

Entry 7 - 10/22/2024 - Ol Blue Ch 4 Pg 143

  1. Why did the British decide to begin a campaign in the Southern states?

  2. What helped push many southerners to join the American cause?

  3. Where did the British finally surrender, ending the war?

Wednesday 10/23/2024 - Assignment

Revolutionary War Timeline



Revolution Quiz Review

Quiz on Tuesday - 10/29

Friday 11/1/2024

Articles of Confederation WebQuest