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¹     In the 1800s, the country started to grow quickly. Some people started to believe that the country should go from one ocean to another. They used this idea as a reason to go to war or take land from other countries. This idea was called Manifest Destiny.
 
²     The term was used for the first time in 1845. The person who used it did not think the country should go to war to get land. He didn't think the government should have any part of it. He thought that people should just move west. When enough people lived in an area, they would apply to become a state. This is how the country should grow.
 
³     It wasn't that easy. Other countries owned the land in the West. Thomas Jefferson helped with this problem in 1803. He bought land from France. This land went from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. He doubled the size of the country.
 
⁴     People quickly began to move onto this land. But some people wanted to go farther west. They went into Texas. This land was owned by Mexico. In 1836, they declared their freedom. Texas applied to become a state. The two Countries went to war over the land. Mexico lost.
 
⁵     After the war, there were some that wanted all of land to become part of the country. Not everyone agreed. The treaty helped end this talk. Mexico lost land - a lot of land. The land would become many states in the West.

The Mexican-American War

The Mexican-American War began in 1846.  There were many events that led up to this war.  For example, Mexico and the United States argued over where the official border  between the countries should be.  The United States was also unhappy because Mexico refused to sell California and New Mexico to the United States. People in the United States at that time wanted to make the country bigger so they wanted to buy California and New Mexico from Mexico.  Mexico’s refusal to sell the territories was one of the reasons  the United States went to war.  Mexico had many problems throughout the war.  The biggest  problem was that the Mexican government was weak and divided.  The United States also had a better army and weapons .  After two years of fighting the American army invaded  Mexico and won the war.  Mexico had to give the United States California, New Mexico, and other territories to end the war.

reasons                                             Mexico

United States                                    problem

weapons                                           territories

invaded                                             border

All the defenders of the Alamo chose to die instead of surrendering. Do you think there might be times that you would rather die than give-up and live? What might those times be, and why do you think you would choose to die instead?

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I think there might be times

The Alamo is in Texas. It was first used as an mission. Missionaries and Native Americans who became Christians lived in the mission for almost seventy years in the early 1800s, Spanish soldiers used the mission.
 
     In Mexico, Santa Anna had become a dictator. Settlers in Texas were worried about what he would do. The settlers felt it was time to take action. They had the support of many Texans. These were Mexican people who had been born in Texas. The Tejanos didn't always care if Texas became free. They

did want to get rid of Santa Anna.
 
     In 1835, some people in Texas fought Mexican troops. Santa Anna was not

happy. He marched north from Mexico with his army.
 
     Texas volunteers worked to make the defenses stronger. They knew that Santa Anna would be coming to attack the city.
 
     The Texans did not have a lot of equipment. They did not have a lot of ammunition. There was not a lot of food or water in the mission, either. If the Texans were trapped in the mission for a long time, they would run out of things to eat and die.
 
    In February of 1836, Santa Anna's army got to the Alamo. There were 6,000 men in his army. There were about 150 men in the mission.
 
      Santa Anna surrounded the Alamo and began a siege. This is where an army tries to capture a fort by attacking it over and over again. Santa Anna wanted the fighters in the Alamo to surrender. They would not.
 
      On the twelfth day of the siege Santa Anna attacked. At first the Texans kept the Mexicans back, but they were badly outnumbered. Soon the Mexican army had made it inside the Alamo. They killed most of the people inside. The assault had only lasted about ninety minutes.
 
    There were about seven men that survived the battle. These people were brought to Santa Anna. He ordered them executed. The women and children were allowed to live. Santa Anna wanted them to tell other Texans what had happened at the Alamo.
 
     The Mexican victory came at a high cost. Almost 1,500 Mexicans were dead. The Texans lost 189 men.

         Martin Luther King Jr. and Elizabeth Cady Stanton             

      Martin Luther King Jr. and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were the two American reforms. These two person were helps the people that live in United State to have free education. Both of them want everyone to have equal right and want other place to respect other.

    The same about these two people are that they help the Americans to have their own freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. and Elizabeth are helps the people to have education. They want to sure that everyone has education. Martin Luther King Jr. and Elizabeth don’t want people to retreat each other and not respect each other. There are both being the leaders, nice, helpful and also they are both married.

    The different about these two people are that Elizabeth Cady Stanton she played a leadership role in the women rights movement. Also some what overshadow in popular memory by her long time colleague Susan B Anthony. She was author of the movement’s most important stragetegeies and documents. She has a slave name Gerrit Smith which is her cousin. She was born in Johnstown, New York in November 12, 1815. She was died I October 26, 1902, in New York. She helps the women to get education like the men did. Martin Luther King Jr. helps the Black American . He also wants his people to have high education like the white people. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in January 15,1929 in Atlanta, Georgia He was Africa American.

      These two person were very brave can protect and do the right things for people. They do like this because on that time women can’t go to school and the Black American can’t go school with white kids.

                        2. Abolitionists
By Mary L. Bushong (modified from “Edhelper” by Larry Ferlazzo)

6. What does it mean to abolish something? It means to get rid of it or destroy it. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a movement began among people from all walks of life. They were the Abolitionists, and they wanted to get rid of slavery.

1. One of the first groups of people to talk about the plight of slaves and the need to abolish slavery was the Quakers. Many were already involved in helping every slave who asked. They would provide food, shelter, and education, teaching them skills like reading and writing.

4. In 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Philadelphia. The group was led by William Lloyd Garrison. They pledged to abolish slavery in the United States, believing that it was against moral law.

5. Former slaves, like Frederick Douglass, toured the Northern states telling about their personal experiences as slaves. Their stories opened the eyes of many people, and membership in the Anti-Slavery Society swelled. In two years, there were 400 chapters. In five years, it had grown to 1,350 with at least 250,000 members.

3. Abolitionists tried to educate the public. They produced a steady stream of published material. This included speeches, sermons, memoirs of former slaves, newspapers, children's materials, and books. The most well known book was Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She wrote it in 1852 after listening to the stories told her by Josiah Henson, her model of Uncle Tom.

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I live in the United States. Loas is very cloes to me because my mother born in there and my grandmother live in there too. I want to travel to Thailand because i want to see my old house in Thailand.

What do you think might have happened to Lewis and Clark’s expedition without the help of Sacajawea and York?

I think they might give trouble and lost because no one help them to find the way to go.

Should history’s opinion of Jefferson change because of the slaves he kept and his relationship with Hemings? Why or why not?

Yes, it should change his history because he can not having children with his slave Hemings.