Learning+Log

September 1, 2009 Today, I just transfered into this class. I got a class wiki thing and kinda was really confused about it. Didn't really learn much because I was just trying to figure out how to do this wiki stuff. Odds are I most likely still will be super confused next time I come to class so I don't think I'll get much done.

September 3, 2009 This day is a new day, I actaully looked up some stuff. I was lookin at the whiskey rebellion proclamation and couldn't figure out how to make the link. So McKayla messed it for about 20 hours (over exaggeration) and finally got it to work. She is so talented and deserves an awesome A+, because she is so nice and helps me out alot even though I'm just retarded and can't do anything.

September 8, 2009 Today, I think I got my wiki thing to work a bit better because my new neighbor Derek helped me a whole lot better than Mckayla did. I got my page set up and looked up some stories about slaves. Slaves went through alot of stuff and it's very sad, It would absolutely stink alot to be a slave. One lady went into labor on the ship to America and when the baby was born it was thrown over board by the cruel whitemen.

September 10, 2009 Today, we learned about the trading between the colonies, england, africa, and the carribean. Rum was the colonies major trade, englands was wool clothes, africa traded slaves and the carribean had sugar and molasses. England started putting all these taxes on the colonies angering the colonies thus provoking the revolutionary war.

September 14, 2009 I learned about the Salem Witch Trials and how the trials were not really accurate. We also learned about Benjamin Franklin and all of his inventions and all the papers and things he wrote. He had many ideas and told the world the truth as he saw it. George Washington was our first president and a great leader. He lead the army in the revolutionary war, but he had lost the battle of Yorktown. No matter what he had great leadership skills and it showed. He was elected President of the United States of America!

September 18, 2009 The wiki wasn't working last time and I can't recall what we learned about so we'll just go with today. Today was about the French and Indian war also known as the 7 year war. It lasted a long time and england did eventually win. France gave england to England but england wouldn't let the colonies expand.

September 22, 2009 The Boston Massacure was started because an officer wouldn't pay a wig seller and it started a whole fight against the workers of boston and the officers of boston. Then all the soldiers were charged in court but the senior officer was found not guilty because he tried to tell them to stop. Then the rest that were found guilty were either put in jail for 2 days or sent back to england. So it's pretty much not fair because they killed lot of people and thats really dumb they weren't sent to jail for longer.

September 24, 2009 Common Sense is a little pamphlet written but Thomas Paine. I personally find the book quite entertaining, he had a lot of great political ideas. If only we all used more ocmmon sense. Enlightenment was going on around 1600-1800's. It was basically about men trying to make everything "right" to the best extent. The battle of lexington and concord was a nice victory for the colonists in the end, but still with some loses. Using the Gorilla Fighting method colonists hid in trees shooting and throwing rocks at the British Soldiers.

October 1, 2009 Today we learned about the declaration of indepence. Thomas Jefferson wrote it for the colonies so they could vote on their independence. After being destroyed and changed they finally found a draft they liked and voted on it and liked it. Washington finally won a major battle, the battle of saratoga. The french finally came and supported the colonies and they surrounded york town and defeated the british!! Then they all had dinner! :)

October 5, 2009 I looked up the founding father for South Carolina, Charles Pinckney. I made a new page for him cuz i found lots of information on him. He was the one that made up the Pinckney Plan. He's also been a U.S. senator and wrote much of the Declaration of Independence.

October 9, 2009 WE learned about the articles of confederation. There are thirteen and they all finally agreed to them like four years after they were written. We also learned about Daniel Shays who decided that these taxes and money issues were ridiculous so they formed an army to burn down the court to destroy all the documents of house properties and debts. Shays army was caught but let go.

October 13, 2009 Teh constitutional convention when finally the constitution was agreed to along with the bill of rights and the articles of confederation with rid of. We also talked about Jays Treaty were we trade with england if they agree to leave us alone, americans were not happy with this. XYZ affair were americans could kick people out of the united states if they've been here for a certain amount of time.

October 19,2009 the war of 1812 is when the canadians burned down the white house and the president barely made it out alive. The national bank was the united states federal law that would insist that the us would have papers about their debts. Whiskey REbellion was when Hamilton made a tax on whiskey of 25%. the farmers who made corn were not very happy about this cuz it will make them go broke. The Louisiana Purchase is when the united states bought a huge chunk of land from France and doubled the size of the united states.

October 29, 2009 wasn't here last time because i was at home being sick. Today i'm taking the test so that my grade will go up which it is an F. I've never had an F and need to fix that grade.

November 3, 2009 Today we learned about the Missouri compromise. I found a nice map about it and put it on the class wiki. i put alot of good stuff about the south on my wiki all about the slavery and stuff like that. Gettin an A this term!