U.S+Government


 * Do Now: 02/03/11
 * Except for the department of state, treasury, and attorney general and secretary of war, all the other departments were later added on,
 * In egypt right now is basically another revolution. The nation is growing tired of their government and is going against their president and what he has done for their nation so far.
 * HW: In Egypt right now, they are going through a revolution. A revolution that the U.S similarly went through to gain independence. I have also came to the conclusion that Egypt is retaliating in the same way the colonist did as well. They form riots, and publicly show the hatred toward their president of 30 years. Egypt just like the United States are striving for independence from their government and public changes.
 * The case of Marbury vs. Madison, Willaim Marbury sued James Maddison of an unconstitutional act by not delivering the Judiciary Act of 1801. James Maddison however viewed that trying to add more jobs to the government was unconstitutional. Therefore for the first time, the supreme court preformed a judicial review, coming to the conclusion that the Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconstitutional. The discovering that laws could be unconstitutional opened up the idea of the people being able to go against the government for their rights. It also opened up the idea that the government may alter laws to match the rights of others according to the constitution.
 * The case of Marbury vs. Madison, William Marbury sued James Madison of an unconstitutional act by not delivering the Judiciary Act of 1801 and revieving his commission to become a judge. James Madison however viewed that trying to add more jobs to the government was unconstitutional. Therefore for the first time, the supreme court preformed a judicial review, coming to the conclusion that the Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconstitutional. John Marshall, the chief justice preformed an act of loose construction, by going against Marbury’s petition, and claiming that the Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconstitutional. This was a prime example to demonstrate the split in the beliefs of the government whether to stick to the constitution or to preform loose construction. The discovering that laws could be unconstitutional opened up the idea of the people being able to go against the government for their rights. It also opened up the idea that the government may alter laws to match the rights of others according to the constitution.
 * The judicial branch can’t be able to higher or appoint judges, because they, tell whether or not something is right, not choosing themselves.
 * I think unconstitutional laws still on the book as laws, because they are factors that protect the people, which is factored in the preamble, which is part of the constitution, so therefore it’s a piece of loose construction.
 * Congress and the President do not have to listen to the Supreme Court.
 * The Supreme Court has to uphold the constitution and inform the people the rights that have been violated.





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The Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional. In the fifth amendment it states that no one can take another persons property, or remove property, therefore in times back then slaves were considered as property, therefore telling us that having the slaves to move from one state to another, is considered as disrupting property and or moving others. The constitution is then erupted by the Missouri Compromise.

05/13/11

It was called bleeding Kansas because of the violent events that took place because of the Kansas Nebraska Act. From gory and nasty crimes from killing each other.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">NOTES: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">CCQS: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Summary: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">APPARTS: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Author: State of Florida <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Place: Florida <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Prior Knowledge: The south decided to sucede so these states are listing in documental style how they are leaving the united states. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Audience: The president and all who live in the United States. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Reason: The south does not believe nor agree about the things against slavery. With such a strong abolitionist as president of the united states, they decided that they were to sucede and not be able to be told not to partake in slavery, their only way of producing an economical benfit to their area. Florida believes it will become its own popular soverignity and economically do well themselves. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The Main Idea: Florida said that it would become its own independent state and chose themselves what they think is right rather then Abraham Lincoln choosing and doing something that they disagree with. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Significance: They want to be an independent state and have a soverign, but that's how the united states was working at that time so it didn't make sense to why they would use the same ideas. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Author: State of South Carolina <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Place: South Carolina <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Prior Knowledge: The south did no agree to Abraham Lincoln becoming president. He was such a heavy abolitionist that they felt that everything they stood for he was against. Such as they believed slavery was all they could do to make sure that they were economically okay, but Abraham Lincoln did not want slavery to exist anymore. Therefore they suceded. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Audience: President Abraham Lincoln and the United States. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Reason: South Carolina believed to live they needed slavery, but Lincoln was an abolitionist and would hurt their economy and not be able to live well anymore. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The Main Idea: South Carolina was not pleased with Abraham Lincoln and decided that they were going to sucede from the united states to carry on with slavery and continue to produce well economically. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Significance: South Carolina was the first state to decide this decision of suddenly leaving the united states and they could make it on their own. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Similarities: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">All are suceding from the U.S. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Many want to become independent <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The idea of keeping Soverign society. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Differences: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Using the same tactics as the U.S. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Reasons for splitting up <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Whether or not it would stay independent or join with the confederate states. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Reflection: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">No it doesn't really make sense to me, because a lot of states used the same excuses, as keeping the idea of a soverign society, but that's how the U.S functioned, and they decided to leave. A lot of the things that they wrote would probably happen after they split up as well because someone will always rebel against an idea, just as they rebel against president Lincoln.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">People planned a way to get Doy out of jail for wrong accusations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The 11 men made it out safely and was one of the most daring rescues.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">He was sentenced for abducting slaves.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">His friends found out a way how to get him out and smartly categorized it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The cops watched them escape.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Their actions inspired.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The good people here seem to be the authorities which in most parts should not be allowed.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The innocent people who were actually labeled as bad, in this situation were the good people, not that bad.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Courage somehow always succeeds in the end no matter what the deed may be.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The people in "charge" aren't always the ones who were right.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Good deeds, are sometimes misunderstood under circumstances where no one is sure how to accept it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">One persons's courage will allow a lot of other people to be able to take a stand and make sure it comes to the best of their ability.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">The good people in my opnion are Doy and the people who helped him get out. He tried to help slaves and free them so he was doing good rather than all who weren't. The bad guys in my opnion are the people in charge; such as police, guards and all of those people.They all looked at the wrong instead of the right and was willing to punish those because they didn't know what to do.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">Doy stood up for what he believed in and was sentenced to jail, the brave courage that it took for them to find a way to get him out made the whole difference showing that honesty, truth, and rights conquers wrong.

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I SEE IT MEANS ACTIVITY I see: IT MEANS:
 * Two men in a picture
 * Their hands are toward the other.
 * Their hands are going to the opposite to their mouth.
 * One man on the left's cigar is much more thinner then the man on the right,
 * They have some type of uniform.
 * Their hands are associated in the same spots.
 * There is a clasp on the top of the photo.
 * The cigars are different.
 * One man's coat is different then the other.
 * It's a frame of something.
 * It appears that it looks like they're mocking someone and that maybe it was some type of ritual or oath that they took in the civil war for the oppossing side. they are twins that are fighting against each other, the left is p[art of the union, the right was the confederate army.

Each of these men are really young and they appear as if they are fighting in the war but they are really small and could be forced to fight. Some of their uniforms are the same while others are different. Two have different hats then the other. Their ages are 7, 10, 11, and 13.

I would not go against the MAssachusetts word and uphold the constitution. I feel like if you went against, an area that would cause more conflict so I would have done the same as general lee, i would have came back to Massachusetts and then went against the union and just went with the state of Massachusetts and then I would have started the confederacy army in that area. I don't think there was no deciding which side and going in the middle. It was more of either your on this side or your not on the other, and if you weren't you'd be effected by the raging violence and senseless killings. Civil War Themes

‍4) Fellow Americans or Traitors ... or both?
I think that despite what position the south had a much more effective tactic then the north. The south limited their men which was much more of a smarter plan then the more men that the north had put out. The less men you put in the lesser chance of the more men you loose, and the less jobs children and women have to suffer without their husbands/fathers/uncles and etc. The north however put so many men in and they did not know whether or not they would be guaranteed to win, if the chances are high on your side don't gamble it. Many times the north put much more men and they lost more then the south did. I think the tactics that the South used was much more smarter then the north, and more effective.
 * Northern Tactics of the Civil War
 * Block the South in trading ports such as the Anaconda plan.
 * Send out more men then the confederate army and to use more tools.
 * Not allow the South to be declared independent, and to return it to the union. || Southern Tactics of the Civil War
 * Stop the north from gaining territory.
 * Cause President Abraham Lincoln to see that the war was not worth fighting for anymore and give the South's independence.
 * Depended on countries in Europe so they could help them win from selling cotton. ||

WEAPONS: 1. Technology advances impacted the way people fought. They weren't use to the whole difference that these weapons could make a much bigger impact on killing people then the old things that they used before. It impacted the lasting of the fights, ammunition, and the deaths. 2. Wars were now fought more advanced, they had to rethink strategies to attack to prevent high death rates, it also changed the speed in which people fought. These advances took much less time to re-ammunition the weapons. 3. Weapons changed the way people fought and the strategies that would help it. Wars soon become more dangerous and more deadly.
 * Revolver
 * War pistols
 * War rifles
 * Bowie Knives
 * Short Swords
 * Cannons

No, because machines preform tasks but it takes a person to be able to know how to properly use it. A gun can shoot, but a soldier knows where and how.



1. The strategy for the union in fighting the war was to use more soldiers and by any means to block off the South from possible strengths and allies and to somehow get them back to the union. They used something like the anaconda plan. They used offense to win battles. The strategy for the confederacy was to use less soldiers and to stop the north from gaining territory to their goal of expanding more land, the confederacy also used allies to help. The confederacy played more as defense then anything else. I think the confederacy had a more effective plan because they always used less soldiers and would result in much less casualties so they were smart for not allowing so many men to had been killed. 2. Support: Faster battle Easier to use More effective Opposing: Disadvantages to other sides More deaths Faster battles yet more deaths/casualties. 3. The confederate army is winning in 1863, they have much more better strategies and experiences. lack of trained enemies. They were on their home turf. Fighting on a defensive war, from george washington. Union has to force condeferates to rejoin. The gatling gun was important because it would wipe out a lot of soldiers which would cause the other side to run out of ammunitition which would let the professionals wipe out the confederate. It gives us an upperhand to the battle. Ironclads- Too hot would burn people. Bullet- Minie' Balls.The bullets went much straighter Confederates needed shoes. They had to invade the north to get these shoes. Gettysburg, PA is the place that shoes were needed. Turning point of the civil war. On the union soil, not with the george washington policy. 1863- Union was loosing. Replace a general with someone more skilled and skilled soldiers. media type="custom" key="9695678"

I think that the Emancipation Proclamation was a good tactic to use for President Abraham Linocoln. If President Lincoln was able to free the slaves, then that would mean they were able to fight on either side that they wanted. Many slaves wanted to be free so most likely they would come to the union's side. If there were more slaves on the union's side they would join and add a lot more soldiers. That would increase the north's chances of winning.

The Confederacy's strategy changed from their defensive tactics as they went to get shoes from pennsylvania, they left their own turf which caused them to loose the tactic they had from george washington.

1. The army who had more of an advantage in the first day of fighting was the confederates. They had more troops which cause the Union to have forced back, however they failed to have let them pursue the challenge all the way, and allowed the union to be able to regroup their men that night.

2. Both armies were indecisive to who was winning at that point both armies were holding the other off, But confederate army leader Ewell was able to take part of the hill in control

3. The union army had successfully been able to take out the confederates that had captured part of the hill the evening before, therefore Lee was entired to do the Prickett's charge. However the confederate army was not able to break the unions line and on July 4th they began to leave Gettysburg.

4. There were heavy losses in the battle and general Lee knew as long as he didn't forfit then he would have no problem just leaving.

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1. Elisha played the part of those who were first sent out to die, however he survived by hiding.

2. Elisha marched 34 miles in which he and the troops were exhausted famished, and sleepy to the point of death. However they still came and were exposed to the artilery and more, they fought agaisnt the confederate by home turf advantage where the confederate were use to just defending their own land.

3. This win was just like any other. people still died and nothing really changed about that. He still did the same he did before they were exhausted and tired and fell asleep among the ruins that laid around.

1. He felt that he had go with Georgia and when they succeded.

2. They offered stationed away from fighting his own people.

3. He said that if he didn't go he would be coward and the south was fighting for liberty. Part C: 1.

All Parts: Textbooks give general summaries of how they think things went on, but personal accounts are more accurate because this is a living persons accounts on something they actually experienced. They give a more in depth feeling to everything that's gone on in their experiences and I find them much more accurate.

Sometimes people think they see things but it's not what happened at all. Exaggeration plays a role most of the times when people determine something that's happened.

1. Two years after the war had already took place. 2. That no matter how long time passes no one will forget what these people did to push for the dedication, courage, and hope these men fought for to bring our country back together. 3. He gave meaning by saying that these men will never be forgotten and their death will never be in vain because of the commitment they put in by allowing the country to fight for their freedom. 4. To not ignore the immense importance that they actually served to putting our country together and to be so strong.

The Emancipation Proclamation was strategic because he knew that if he was able to free the slaves and they didn't want slavery anymore, then they would fight the unions side and have more soldiers on their side.

EP- Linocln knows the south won't free their slaves. MD, MO, DE, KY, Border States- Slave states in the union. Tricked Confederates into freaking out. Britain- wouldn't join the confederates if they didn't end slavery. Britain joined the union. State Right = right for slavery. Lost their allies because of slavery. If the British had joined the confederate wer would have lost the civil war. Queen Victoria ruled 40% of the world. Civil War=SLAVERY.

The slaves who were in the rebel states refused to join to the union. Whether or not one of the other countries would possibly join against the union.

1. Confederates actually gave up slavery. 2. Border States still had slavery

Washington is surrounded by Maryland and Virginia, it Virigina is already succeding and Maryland succeds, then the capital of the United States would no longer be in the United States. -Martial Law. Threatening citizens of the union, and went against the constitution. Violated the constitution. If we lose washington D.C we loose the Union.

The Emancipation Proclamation was a strategic move because of slavery rights. Abrahamn Lincoln only did this to save the union, and prevent loosing washington D.C.