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.
9/2/2025 - First Americans Article and Questions
Entry 1 9/3/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 1 sec 1
What did the folsom discovery prove?
Where did the earliest Americans most likely come from?
What happened 9,000-10,000 years ago?
How did the shift to agriculture change the way the early humans lived?
Entry 2 9/4/2025 - Ol Blue Ch. 1 page 20
Pick a Native American cultural area (Southwest, Pacific Coast, Great Plains, Northeast, The Iroquois League, Southeast) and write four facts about them or a specific tribe in that area.
Why did five Native American groups form the Iroquois League?
Which two methods of acquiring food were used over the largest geographical area in North America (See pg. 22)?
Native American culture before European contact. (Start at 30 second time mark).
Entry 3 - 9/5/25- Ol Blue Ch. 1 pg. 38
Describe Leif Ericcson, Claudius Ptolemy, Pope Alexander VI, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan.
How do we know that Columbus was not the first European in the Americas?
Define and place in a sentence: Line of demarcation, circumnavigate, Columbian Exchange.
List three things the Treaty of Tordesillas did.
Entry 4 - 9/8/25 - Ol Blue Ch. 1 pg. 41
After Columbus, why did Spanish explorers and settlers flock to the Caribbean?
Why do you think Ferdinand and Isabella financed Columbus’ second voyage to the new world?
Describe what became known as the Columbian Exchange. Why was it so historically important?
What were some of the main trade items of the Columbian Exchange? Which way across the Atlantic were they traded?
What was one unintended import/export that had especially negative consequences for Native Americans? What effect on their population did it have?
Entry 5 - 9/9/25- Ch 2- pg. 50
Define conquistador, presidio, hidalgo, encomienda, hacienda, vaquero, Northwest Passage, coureur de bois.
Generally, What areas of the new world did Spain, portugal, and France colonize?
What did Louis Joliet, Jacques Marquette, and René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle accomplish? What name did they give to the vast area they claimed for France?
9/10/25 - Early English WebQuest
Complete on separate piece of paper and hand in.
https://www.americanyawp.com/text/02-colliding-cultures/
Entry 6 - 9/12/25- Ol Blue Ch.2 pg. 58
How many years after Columbus did the English try to colonize America?
What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Define POwhatan Confederacy, burgesses, and proprietary colony.
America, The Story of Us, pt. 1 (end 18m10s)
Entry 7 - 9/15/25 -Ol Blue Ch.2 pg. 66
Define separatist, Pilgrim, heretic.
How did the religious beliefs of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Colonies differ?
What was the first written constitution of the American Colonies?
Who could elect representatives under this new constitution? How was this different than the Massachusetts way of electing representatives?
Why was King Philip’s War a turning point for new England?
Entry 8 - 9/16/25 - Ol Blue - Ch.2 pg. 72
Define Pacifism.
What was the English Civil War? How did it end?
After the Restoration, why did the English government openly work to promote additional colonization in North America?
What are the 13 original English Colonies?
William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania.
9/17/25 - Thirteen Colonies Worksheet.
Complete on separate sheet of paper and hand in.
9/18/25 - Chapter 1 and 2 Quiz.
Complete on separate sheet of paper and hand in.
Entry 1 - 9/19/25 - Ol’ Blue - Ch. 3 - pg. 84
Define cash crop, plantation, Gentry, indentured servant, subsistence farming, Middle Passage, and slave code.
Why was the geography of the Chesapeake Bay region ideal for growing tobacco?
How did Bacon’s Rebellion affect the institution of slavery in North America?
Entry 2 - 9/22/25 - Ol’ Blue - Ch. 3 pg. 91
What were the main industries in the New England Colonies?
Which colonies comprised the Middle Colonies? Why did wheat become such a valuable crop in the Middle Colonies?
(pg.104) Why did the population of the American colonies grow so rapidly?
Study the map on pg. 107: Where were the majority of Dutch settlers located in colonial America? What other European ethnicities immigrated to the American colonies in large numbers? Which of the cities listed on the map had a predominantly African population?
Entry 3 - 9/23/25 - Ol’ Blue - Ch. 4 pg. 116-119
Who fought the French and Indian War? How long did it last?
What did the French want with the Ohio River Valley? What did the British want with it?
What was The Albany Plan of Union? What did it show about the English Colonies?
What was the Treaty of Paris? How did it change North America?
Early political cartoon
By Benjamin Franklin
9/24/25 - Chapter 4 Section 1 Worksheet.
Complete on separate piece of paper and hand in.
9/25/25 - The French and Indian War Changes the Fate of America and the World.
Entry 4 - 9/26/25 - Ol’ Blue - Ch. 4 pg. 119
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Define customs duty. Why did the British Government pass customs duty related laws, such as the Sugar Act and the Townsend Acts, on the American colonists?
What effects did the Sugar, Stamp, Townsend, Tea, and Coercive Acts have on the American Colonists (pg. 120)?
How did the British Government respond to the Boston Massacre? What effect did it have on the colonists?
America, The Story of Us, pt. 1 (start 18m0s)
Entry 5 - 9/29/25 - Ol’ Blue - Ch. 4 pg. 126
Define committee of correspondence, minuteman, Loyalist, and Patriot.
What did King George III and Parliament do in response to the Boston Tea Party? What did these responses become known as?
What did the Battle of Bunker Hill show the colonial militia?
What did Thomas Paines’ pamphlet Common Sense help to do?
Who drafted the Declaration of Independence? When was the Declaration of Independence issued?
Besides all men being created equal, what other “unalienable rights” does the Declaration of Independence state? Where does the power of government come from?
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 6 - 9/30/25 - Ol’ Blue - Ch. 4 pg. 138
Define guerrilla warfare and letters of marque. How many years did the American War for Independence last?
What were some of the advantages and disadvantages of the colonial armies and militias? What were some of the British Army’s advantages and disadvantages?
Why was Washington’s attack on the British in December of 1776 a daring one?
Why did the Iroquois and other Native Americans ally themselves with the British?
What were the elements of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 (not to be confused with the Treaty of Paris of 1763)?
10/1/25 - America, The Story of Us: Revolution
10/2/25 and 10/3/25 - American Revolution Timeline Project.
Entry 7 - 10/6/25 - Ol’ Blue - Ch. 4 pg. 147 - 149
What is a republic? Where does power reside in a republic? Who exercises that power?
Why did Americans believe a republican society was better than other societies?
What did John Adams argue the government needed to prevent any group in society from becoming strong enough to take away the rights of the minority?
What type of government did Adams argue would be the best? What were Adams’ ideas on having two houses in the legislature?
What did the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom do?
Entry 8 -10/7/25 - Ol’ Blue - Ch. 4 pg. 149
Define emancipation and manumission.
Who was Molly Pitcher? What advances did women make after the Revolutionary War?
About how many people of African descent fought for the Continental Army or colonial militias during the Revolutionary War?
Study the map on pg. 150. What state was the last to pass emancipation? Within five years after the war ended, some states passed emancipation. How many did so, and why did they do so at this time?
What were American leaders view on education? What was the first state university in the nation?
10/8/25 - Ch. 4-4 worksheet and Ch. 5-1 worksheet.
-Complete on separate sheet of paper and hand in.
10/9/25 - Ch. 3 and Ch. 4 Quiz Review.
10/10/25 - Ch. 3 and Ch. 4 Quiz.
-Daily entry questions check.
Entry 1 - 10/13/2025 - Ol Blue Ch 5. Pg 158
1. WHAT POWERS DID THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION HAVE?
2. HOW DID THE GOVERNMENT PAY FOR ITS DEBT AND FINANCE ITS OPERATIONS?
3. WHAT WERE THE EARLY PROBLEMS WITH TRADE?
Tuesday 10/14/2025
Article of Confederation Questions - Answer the questions on a sheet of paper to turn in.
Entry 2 - 10/15/52 - Ol’ Blue - Ch. 5 pg. 160
What was the importance of the Northwest Ordinance? What did it do?
What was Shay’s Rebellion?
What were five weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? What problems did they create (see chart on pg. 162).
10/14/25 - Guided Reading 5-2.
Complete on separate sheet of paper and hand in.
