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USA History / Mr.Saindon
Monday, September 18
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Friday, September 22
This week we will focus on Life in the colonies:
Objectives:
√ What motivated people to move to the colonies?
√ Understand how settlers' backgrounds influenced their values, priorities, and daily lives.
√ Imagine typical daily life for different families in colonial America in the late 1700s.√ What would your religious life be like if you were a colonist?
√ Describe your life on a farm?√ What rights did you have living under your government in London, England?
Battle of Gettysburg
From July 1 to July 3, 1863, the invading forces of General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army clashed with the Army of the Potomac (under its newly appointed leader, General George G. Meade) at Gettysburg, some 35 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Casualties were high on both sides: Out of roughly 170,000 Union and Confederate soldiers, there were 23,000 Union casualties (more than one-quarter of the army’s effective forces) and 28,000 Confederates killed, wounded or missing (more than a third of Lee’s army). After three days of battle, Lee retreated towards Virginia on the night of July 4. It was a crushing defeat for the Confederacy, and a month later the great general would offer Confederate President Jefferson Davis his resignation; Davis refused to accept it.usiness Title
Abraham Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address
November 19, 1863
In November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln was invited to deliver remarks, which later became known as the Gettysburg Address, at the official dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War. Though he was not the featured orator that day, Lincoln’s 273-word address would be remembered as one of the most important speeches in American history. In it, he invoked the principles of human equality contained in the Declaration of Independence and connected the sacrifices of the Civil War with the desire for “a new birth of freedom,” as well as the all-important preservation of the Union created in 1776 and its ideal of self-government.
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