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Today, we had our unit test. I got a 100 and i am very happy!

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South - has opinion about the Civil war history
Total war - everyone suffers.

The story of Dixie

Sherman - destroyed southern city

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Union

• Abraham Lincoln
• General Mclellan
• General Ulysses S. Grant
• Establish 
• Blockade
• Put iron plate on the Monitor - south does not break the blockade 

Confederacy

• General Robert E. Lee
• Battle of Antietam, Near Richmond, VA. - South WIN, 23,000 casualties
• In response to the blockade - rebuilt the Virginia 

Union

Union

• Lincoln (President, commander in chief)
• General Melellam 
• General Ulysses S. Grant 
• Capital: Washington. D.C

Confederacy 

• General Robert. E. Lee
• Capital: Richmond 

And then.....

We went to Harry Gu's senior project presentation!!!

It went really well

Everybody is happy ! 

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Today, we went out for our class since there is a senior presentation going on in Mr. A's room

We took our notebook, had class in front of the school.

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Today, we went over the test. I got a 100 on the test and i was very happy about it.

Mr. Schick show me Terry Bazzio's drum set, which is huge and monstrous XD

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1. To shorten the period of war since North is more sustainable in resources due to its large population and factories.

2. They had a tie. 

3. New Orlean is a important supply base for Confederate troops

4. It is the turning point of the civil war since the South had large casualty and could never again be strong enough to contrive a big attack to North. 

Section Review

1. The capture of Vicksburg gave the Union force full control of the Mississippi river. 

2. North knew that South is plan to break the blockade by building ship covered with iron; South is unable to break the blockade since North has a ironship that is as strong as that of the South. 

3. To force the Union to make peace. 

4. Northern: The South ain't fight back anymore! 

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Questions

1. Some states chose to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. Some decide to become border states.

2. The war is going to be tough and lasting for a while.

3. North: 1. Blockade southern ports; Attack along Mississippi river and split the Confederacy, and try to attack in the east and capture the capital at Richmond

   South: Hold on! Stay strong! Defend!

1. MD is in adjacent of the Union's capital, Washington D.C.
2. Battle of Bull Run
3. Border states is in vicinity of Union's enemy.

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Lincoln Douglas Debates - 1858  - Douglas win

• Republican - If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

• Democrat - Territories should decide slavery for themselves (Popular sovereignty)

John Brown

• Strongly against slavery
• Want to lead a rebellion 
• Attacked Harper Ferry, took weapon and gave them to slaves
• Failed, hanged

Election of 1860

• Northern Democrats - Stephen Douglass
• Southern Democrats - John Breckinridge
• Republican - Abraham Lincoln  -  Won
• South - feel powerless
• Decide to secede - quit the union
• South Caroline - first state to secede, later, GE, FL, MI, LA, AL, and TE had also left
• They name their group the Confederate States of America
• Jefferson Davis is the president 

The Civil War Begins

Lincoln -  want to avoid civil war

Fort Sumter

• A U.S. Government property
• Anderson - the commander of the fort
• Running low on supplies
• Lincoln - decide to let the ship go unarmed 
• Confederates - demand Anderson to surrender
• April 12, 1861 - Confederates fired Fort - War Beginning  

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Lily took the test

Andrew Butler's nephew beats sumner hard

1. Nebraska - corn 
2. Senator Stephen Douglas - wants to organize Nebraska into a territory - slavery problem 
3. NE - free (North)
4. KA - No  (South) 

Popular sovereignty

1. People decide
2. Even in a territory 

Vote

• Pro-slavery won - cheating (vote without residence)
• 1500 suppose to vote,  6000 voted 
• Extremist
• Two government 
• May 1856 - pro slavery attacked Lawrence, Kansas, where is the capital of the anti-slavery
• Later - anti killed five pro slavery men 

Dred Scott

• Being lived in a free state for four years
• Court - rule against him
• Higher- for him
• Supreme court 
• Scott is not allow to bring a case to the supreme court since slave is not an U.S. citizen
• The law considered slaves property. The owner could move anywhere and still own his property. 
• The Missouri Compromise was against the law. Congress did not have the power to decide where slavery should be allowed. (State decide) (Lose balance) 

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Underground railroad - secret path to North - Freedom!

100,000 slaves escaped

Harriet Tubman freed 300 slaves through the U.R

Solomon Northup - Freed - captured - freed again


William Lioyd Garrison

• Newspaper, liberator
• Anti-slavery society 

Harriet Beecher Stowe 

1. Uncle Tom's cabin 

Frederick Douglass

1. Escaped slave 
2. Taught by slaveholder's wife
3. Escaped when he was 21 years old 
4. Wrote his autobiography

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Background: In 1819, there are 11 slave free states and 11 slave states-Tied


So......

In 1820 - The Great Compromise - By Henry Clay

   Maine - free state

   Missouri - slave state

   Rest of Louisiana Territory - Divided by a line

1838 Texas - slave state

Blog - questions

1. The Missouri Compromise kept the balance between slave and free states in the Senate.

2. West, North, and South

Chart Study

1. North: More tax--sell for less than foreign products. South: Less tax--For buying cheaper goods. West--More tax--use extra tax to build railroads.

2. North: Less slavery. South: More slavery

The compromise of 1850:

• California would join the union as a free state.
• In the rest of the territory from Mexico, people would decide whether or not to allow slavery.
• The slave trade would be banned in Washington, D.C. 
• Congress would pass the Fugitive law.

Section Review

1. He and other senators came up the Compromise of 1850 state.
2. The fugitive law states that the Northerner is obligated to extradite the escaped Southern slave back to the South. 
3. Yes. Some people favor a part of the country while other people favor other parts. 
4. We want more tax on the Foreign goods!!!! Do you want to earn more money? Wanna be rich? Let's have more tax on the foreign goods so we can sell our products cheaper!!!

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Today, Mr. Schick was absent. We went to the yearbook room with Mrs. Zukaoski. We thought we are going to have a test at the beginning. However, Mrs. Zukaoski told us that she didn't get one and we should either review our test or working on something else.

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We us - the teacher
Mr. Schick - the victim

1. Education, health, and prisoner with mental illness
2. She report the condition of prison to the state legislature, which later resettle the prisoner to the asylum
3. Some people don't want to change. They prefer the current situation much more than the reformer.

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Questions

What was one reason that women came together to gain equal rights?

• They want to speak against slavery
• They want the right to vote

Chart study

1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2. She took the leading role of two important movements, which are anti-slavery and women's right movement.

Why did the Seneca Falls Convention meet?

1. For discussing women right. 

Section review 

Why did many women come together in the 1820s and 1830s?

• To fight for equal right and non-slavery

What was one result of the Seneca Falls Convention

• Declaration of Sentiment 

Using the DoC as template conveys the same importance as DoC to the audience 

P 146

• To be able to spend their childhood like a boy. To be able to facing challenge and overcome it.
• They are constrained by the fixed image of womanhood.
• Courage enable women to live her own way. 

Important leaders

Susan B. Anthony

Lucretia Mott

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sojourner Truth 

Note

8 cities with population exceeds 10,000 in 1820

1. NYC - 123,706  - 500,000
2. Philadelphia - 63,000 - 121,000
3. Baltimore - 62,000 - 170,000
4. Boston - 43,000 - 140,000
5. New Orleans - 27,000 - 116,000
6. Charlestown - 25,000
7. Northern Liberty - 19,000 (Now Phil)
8. Southwark - 14,000
9. Washington - 13,000
10. Salem - 12,000 

Cincinnati - 114,000

Brooklyn - 96,000

St. Louis - 77,000 

Spring Garden - 58,000

Albany - 51,000 

1850

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Blog - questions

1. Why did many people move to cities

The need of farming laboring was diminishing.

2. Why did German and Irish immigrants come to the United States between 1830 and 1850?

German - for escape environmental, political, and economical problem in Germany

Irish - More potato!

3. Why did young Chinese men come to California in the mid 1800s?

For seeking treasure and selling goods.


Section Review

1. Why did many people in rural area go to cities to find work?

As more agricultural invention being applied in farming, the need of laboring was slumped and people had to go to city for finding job.

2. What three groups of immigrants came to the United States in the 1840s?

The German, the Irish, and the Chinese

3. What was the major difference between the lives of German immigrants and Irish immigrants in the United States?

German - farming
Irish - Laboring in dock, railroad, and household service

4. I came thousands of miles away from the other side of the earth. My family had sold all of their properties and paid for my trip to US. My mission is to make enough money and return to China. Life here was hard, indeed. The competition of finding gold is odious. If i can't discover any gold, then i plan to open a store in selling mining accessories. My almighty Buddha please bless me!

Blog - class

Owl and Dogs - live in harmony

Jerry, Lily, and Owen - took their test

The rest of us - CHILL 

Blog - test

Today we took our chapater test

It
was
EASY

And

I'm destine to ace it

haha

I'm sure it will boost my grade yyyyyyyugely

Essay

Today, Mr. Schick assigned us a 750 word essay about the transformation of the United States

I think i got this

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P1

Donald Trump is tearing the history scar in Mexico inflicted by America

P2

Donald Trump lies about the role of Mexico -- America is victim

P3

Effort of nullify the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is being proposed and considered

P4

The proposal of nullify the Treaty have solid stand - violation of international law and flaws in dealing with citizenship

P5

Possible obstacle for implement- different law system, the acknowledgement of state about the validity of treaty

P6

Different situation - the treaty was signed by both government; United Stated does not recognize the compulsory jurisdiction of the international court

P7

Political reasoning - obscale from the political side

P8

The debate of history raised another question: How does the land from Mexico contribute to the prosperity of the United State.

P9

A series of allusion - Historical precursors indicated that the war involves with territory annexation could result the most casualty and cost

P10

Continous to portray the heinous and odious image of warfare that aims to enlarge territory; contradicted with the democratic and christian value

P11

Though Mr. Cardena's project might sound and indeed impractical, its public influence is significant in fight again Donald Trump's unfair attack to Mexico

P12

 United States lacks and should  address about the issue of imperial war in public.

P13

Media tried to hide the hideous side of America - slave, indian American. Another one would be the imperial war against Mexico

P14

The descendent of North Mexico in some Southern state choose not embrace the American pride and regard the war as a disgraceful page of history. Now it is the time for their thought to be spread and recognize

P15

Calling Mexican to reconquest the memory of war promoted by racial injustice and greed for territory

P16

The best way of compensation is to reform immigration and gave citizenship for Mexican who lose their land

Summary

This article discussed the plan to nullify the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo along with its feasibility and effect. Though Mexican have reasonable evidences to reclaim their lost territory, it is unlikely that such proposal will come true due to US's denial to the international court and the law discrepancy between now and a century ago, and other miscellaneous reasons. Nevertheless, the idea of negotiation about the lost territory will help unifying people for fighting against Trump, uncover another long-hidden sin of US, and reduce American Mexican's suffering.

Prediction:

Similar to the that of the article, I think the suggestion of reclaiming the land will not came to reality. Nevertheless, such proposal is an essential and necessary step for Mexican to step up against America's unfair treatment and unjust law to Mexican people. Though it seems impossible for Mexico to regain half of its land, it is likely that in the future, United States government will take the suffering of Mexican people into consideration as the result of the protest derivates from the debate of the historical territory dispute.

Blog - notes

Gold Rush

• Only 20,000 people in CA in 1848
• John Marshall found GOLD - near a sawmill in John Sutter's property 
• Soon, everyone came to San Francisco

• 1849 - forty niner
• 70,000 people move to CA, 20,000 Chinese
• two years - 200,000 people
• 1850 - the 31st state 
• Anti-Chinese poster

Blog - Section 3 question

1. What happened at Sutter's Mill?

• In 1848, a worker found 2 gold nugget at John Sutter's farm and attracted yuge amount of people moving to Californian for finding gold.

2. Why were people who went to California to seek gold called forty-niner?

• The gold rush happened at the year of 1849.

Section Review 

1. Where was John Sutter's sawmill located?

• In vicinity of the American River, close to Sacramento.

2. Why did the population of California increase so much after the discovery of gold?

• Thousands of people moved to California for seeking gold and becoming rich overnight. 

3. I probably will. It is tempting that one can find gold in the farm and become rich. Also, a lot of my surrendered people might move to California as well (Peer pressure) 

4. It's been a year since I left home for gold. Unfortunate, hence all the people rushing for gold, we did not had chance to find any. Therefore, we ceased to find gold after about half a year and settled a ranch in the south of California. Now, though we had to feed sheep, cattle, and horse, our life is better than ever before. 

Note

• John Quincy Adam (6th) - son of John Adam (2)
• Clay - convince congress 

Andrew Jackson POP

• 7th
• Elected in 1828
• first from the west (Tennessee)
• Hhhhero - 1812
• Appeals to common mans
• Kitchen cabinet 
• Anti - indian -POP
• Indian Removal act -1800, illegal 
• 125000east, 60000 south
• Court agreed cherokee - john marshal 
• Trail of Tears

Expansion into the West 

• National road (MD to Mississippi river) 
• Canals - Erie canal joints great lakes and hudson river in NY
• Railroad
• Mountain men 

Manifest Destiny

• United Stated is destined to stretch from coast to coast 
• Helped western settlement, Native American and war with mexico
• Anglo-Saxon American's providential view 

Texas

• Huston city - named after Sam Houston - lad a rebelling army against Mexicans
• Remember the Alamo - cry
• Anna got defeated at San Jacico 
• 9 years later - became a part of united states (1836-1845)

War with Mexico

• Attempt to expand their border
• Fought several successful battle
• invasion of Mexico City 

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - 1848

• Rio Grande (river) - US
• US paid 15M 
• CA, NV, UT, AZ, NM, CO, WY
• 10 M  - southern NM and AZ
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Blog - questions

1. Why did Americans need better ways to travel?

• There is a HHHHUUUUGGGGEEEE amount of people seeks moving to west.

2. How did railroad improve transportation?

• It boasted the speed of traveling, reduced the effect of weather to some extent, and jointed a numbers of major cities.

3. Who were the mountain men?

• Mountain men are peoples who reside in mountain and know the wildness.

4. What were two main trails to the far west?

•  Oregon Trail and The Santa Fe Trail

5. What was Manifest Destiny? 

• Belief that all Americans had the right to live on any land between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.

6. How did American settle Texas?

• They moved to Texas promoted by Stephen F. Austin, whose father started a colony in Texas that was belong to Mexico.

7. What happened at the battle of the Alamo?

• 200 Texans went fight with 4,000 Mexican solider.  Mexican won and all the Texans got killed.

8. What started the war with Mexico?

• Disagreement with boundary between American and Mexico. 

Section Review

• How did people travel west during the first half of the 1800s?
• People travel by water (canals).
• Who fought at the battle of Alamo?
• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and his Mexican troops VS Texans
• As a settler living under Mexican rule in southwest, why might you have wanted your own independent state?
• As American become the dominant population in Texas, it is reasonable to ask for independence, since a Mexico reign will not favor American people.
• Unknown weather, geography; unfamiliar people/tribe on the road (Might be helpful). 

Andrew Jackson - Trump

• Musilm
• Hefty tariff on goods imported from China and Mexico
• Like a king
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Mr. Schick went to senior retreat i guess

How did Adams win the election of 1824

• Adam win  the election under the support of Henry Clay

How was Jackson different from past Presidents?

• He give opportunity to ordinary people to work in government
• A war hero 
• First in the west

Who were Jackson's advisers?

• Jackson do not have official adviser. Instead, he conducts small talks with his trusted friend (Kitchen Cabinet) 

Why was John Quincy Adams an unpopular president?

• Proposing acts that require merchants to pay hefty tariff for importing products from Europe.

Why did Andrew Jackson support the spoils system?

• He believes that the election winner should be able to assign government job to his supporters.

Why did Andrew Jackson's enemies call him "King Andrew"?

• Because of his war deeds

"I votes for Jackson since I know he will not disappoint me. Unlike other candidates, Jackson is the kind of person who will not only solely become the leader of country but also give credit to his supports by give them jobs." 

Test

Today, we took the chapter test
I miss the question which is about the term of James Morone :(

Better luck next time

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No class today!

We all went to reherse the Ring ceremony!

See U next class Mr. Schick!

Blog - notes

Today, Mr. Schick was out and we got Mrs. Gauthier as our sub.

Our works is to review chapter 7 and prepare for the test in future

Some key point

Slave increase - 894,000 to 2,000,000
Nat Turner - led a large slave revolt - hanged
Francis Lowell - built a huge textile factory
Young, teenage girl - 12 hours
Eli whitney - mass product
Louisiana - 15 million, 1803
Election in 1800 - House of Rep break the tie
Thomas Jefferson was choses president
Lewis and Clark - explore the Louisiana
War of 1812 -

• 2.5 years
• no winner or loser
• 1814 - treat of ghent
• Weaken the power of britain 
• Established nationalism 

Blog - Notes

Eli Whitney - invents cotton gin
1800 - 894,000 African slaves
House slave and field slave

1800 - 2,000,000 slaves
Revolt - not work very well
Famous revolt leader - Nat Turner, 1831

Christina's story - the slave holder who did not die XD

Blog - Reading

1. Cotton gin enable slaves to separate cotton from its seeds efficiently, thus boost the productivity of textile industry and enhance the economy

2. At large plantation under the supervision of an overseer

3. Gabried Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner

Review question

1. It boost the efficiency of cotton industry and therefore boost the economy growth in the South

2. Most of them live for working for plantation owner. Some of them worked as servants in plantation houses

3. Enslaved African rebel because of the harsh condition they live under. Without freedom and suppressed by the owner, it seems a better option to rebel since it feels like dying under the odious treatment of slave owner.

4. Attention
Want to double, even triple the efficiency of your cotton factory
Check out our newest cotton gin!
I promise you will love it once you get it!

Blog - note

Lily and Owen is our teacher today

We went over the section 2, which is about Northern Manufacturing.

Steam Engine & Textile factory

Mr. Schick told us his sad story

Think i should go to college after high school :P

Blog - Notes

1791 - Vermont
1792 - Kentucky
1796 - Tennessee
1803 - Ohio

Louisiana =/ Louisiana purchase - People think they are awesome

Questions

1. After 1800
2. The war of 1812

Section Review

1. It enables factories to be built at anywhere
2. Making large quantities of products in short time and low cost.
3. He/She will feels that the way they used to work is so inefficient.
4. Before - I get up at morning at 5 am, work for 500minutes and make 50 plate a day 
1. After - get up at morning at 8 am, work for 8 hours and make 800 plate a day

Notes

Expansion of United States

Louisiana purchase - 1803, 15million

Lewis and Clark - First group of explorers

Major parties: Federalists - Hamouton; Democratic-Republicans - Thomas Jefferson

35 tie - did not break the tie

Impressment - kinapping American sailor - Leads to the establishment of embargo (Cease in treading with British)

Pres. Monroe - got Florida from Spain

Monroe Doctrine

1. Promised to protect people/countries on the American continents
2. Warned Europe to stay out of the Americas
3. Promised that the US would stay out of Europe's business

Blog - Chapter 6

1 - Since both candidates tied up, the House of Representatives have to step in and vote in order to break the tie,

Map study

1. Mississippi river
2. Rocky mountain 

2 - For collecting geological and ecological information for the benefit of the later explorer and settler. 

3 - Because of the need of sailors 

4. 

• Weaken the power of the Great Britain. 
• Provoke nationalism around the country

Chart study

• 1. For the expenditure of warfare supplies
• Le Francis

5. 

• Guaranteed the protection of the national freedom on american territory. 
• Admonished Europe to cede in starting new colonies. 
• In return, US will promised to stay out of European affairs

Section 1 Review

1. By the House of Representatives - Tiebreaker
2. Louisiana
3. No. Since there is financing problem within the States, declaring a war is not beneficial to the country
4. The Monroe Doctrine guaranteed freedom throughout the nation. Promised US for staying out of European affairs in exchange of the European halting in expanding new colonies. 

Blog - Test Review

Today, we got our test back and i got a 99. The question i misses was the short answer on how the supreme justice get their job - Both nominate by president and confirm by the senate. For the rest of class, we went over the test one by one. One thing worth to mention is that Ryan persuaded Mr. Schick to gave us the point of the last question, since the instruction is somewhat ambiguous, equivocal, obscure, unclear, and opaque...... Good job, Ryan! You are our big lawyer!

TEST DAY - OPEN BLOG

TODAY IS TEST DAY

SURPRISINGLY, MR. SCHICK ALLOW US TO USE OUR BLOG FOR THE TEST

THE TEST IS

PRETTY EASY (MOST OF IT)

I THINK I ACED IT

LET SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT CLASS

Blog - Bill of Rights

Five freedoms

Second amendment summary - right to bear arms

Third - No quartering of troops

Forth - no unreasonable searches and seizures

• Warrant 
• Probable cause
• Specific description of place and things to be seized

Fifth - rights when accused for a crime

• Serious crime - grand jury is necessary
• No double jeopardy
• No self-incrimination
• No deprivation of life, liberty, or property with our due process of law

Sixth -

• Speedy and public trial
• Trial close to home 
• Public defender    
• Impartial jury

Seventh 

• matters only of the worth more than $20

Eighth 

• No excessive bail/fine
• No cruel and unusual punishment 

Ninth - People retain their right which are not stipulated in the constitution  

Blog - Amendments

Amendment II

• A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. 

Amendment III

• No solider shall, in time of peace be quarter in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in the time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV

• The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. 
• Warrant - based upon probable cause

Amendment V

• Double jeopardy - Can't be trial twice for the same thing
• Due process    
• Self-incrimination - I plead the fifth - not compel to be a witness against himself. 
• Miranda right - you are innocent until you proved guilty 

Amendment VI

• Right to a speedy, fair, and public trial 
• Right to have a lawyer - at least a public defender

Amendment VII

• In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the US, than according to the rules of common law

Amendment VIII

• No cruel and unusual punishment
• Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed. 

Amendment IX

• Constitutional rights are not the only rights that people have. 

Amendment X

• If a state found a right that is not contradict with the Constitution, then the state is able to execute it. 

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First amendment

• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress or grievances. 
• Five freedoms
• Religion
• Speech
• Press
• Press - to write TRUTH to power
• Assemble
• Petition

Blog - notes

IIII - relation between fed and state

• Fed > states - acts
• Extradition is allowed
• Equal right in every states
• Right to admit new states 
• US - protect states from invasion - all for one and one for all

IIV - Amendment 

• 2/3 votes for proposal, 2/3 for ratifying 

IIIV - Suprecy clause

• Fed > States
• constitution - the supreme law of the land
• Conflict - constitution first, higher wins

Blog - Notes

President salary - Same salary for entire terms - about 400,000 bucks - 

Emolument - Fully removal from business 

Power of President - Commander in Chief of the army and navy

• Power to grant reprieves and pardons - people in jail for long time (Drug offense...sentence reduction)
• Make treaties, nominate judges (Votes by congress later), other ambassador, public ministers and consuls
• Fill up all vacancies of senate - strange little thing
• State of the Union Speech 
• Impeachment - removal of civil officers as the result of treason, bribery, high crime or misdemeanors - 2/3 of the senate

Blog - Notes

Article 1 - Legislative Branch - Make laws, 2 houses of the Congress, Senate and House of Representatives

Draft law, borrow money, declarer war, raise a military, Check and Balance the other two branches


Congressional elections - votes for house of rep every two years.

Senate - serve for 6 years

Article 2

Term and office: president & vice president for 4 years

Electoral college - favor on the majority of the state
Election day - second Tuesday of November

Citizen, 35 years old, 14 years of residency

Blog - Class work

Mr. Schick was out for field trip

We went to Johnson's room in a short trip

We worked on our project assigned last week

And we will present our work tomorrow in this week

Have a good Mr. Schick at Field Trip XD

Blog - Short class

Today is a "S" day! We had a two-hour delay and every class is shorten to 40 minutes. During the class period, Mr. Schick divided us into group of two students and let each group pick one of the Article of constitution to work on. My partner is Ryan and we got the Article 3, which focus on the Judicial System of the government. It is kinda of long but I think we can do a decent job on it.

Blog - Notes

Today, we discussed about the three branches of US government as well as the seven articles of the constitution.

• Legislative - Senate, House of Representative
• Executive - President (Vice President, Cabinet)
• Judicial - Supreme Court & Other Federal Government 

These branches regulate each other for preventing the occurrence of overpower and the abuse of power. 

Seven Articles 

1. Congress
2. President - Power
3. Supreme Court
4. Relation between the States; Relation between the Federal Government and States
5. How to amend the Constitution
6. Constitution is the supreme law for the entire country
7. How to ratify constitution - 2/3 of the majority 

Blog - Class

Today

• Mr. Schick is absent 
• We got Big Johnson as our sub
• We go to his room in 3rd floor
• He said the work should be on veracross
• But 
• There is nothing on the veracross XD
• So
• I wrote this blog
• And 
• Starts working on something else
• End 

Blog - Notes

During the class period, Mr. Schick lectured us the Constitutional Convention, which focus on designing a new government for running the country. The main leaders are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin. They kept the door shut so no one can know what are they talking about.

• First decision - two houses in Congress
• Senate - each states gets one vote
• House of Representatives - vote determined by the population of state
• Slave - split the delegate into two groups
• North - Slave is property - no representation
• South - Slave should be counted with white (since they have more slave)
• Solution - The Three-fifth compromise - count 3/5 of each slave in determining political representation and taxation. 

Blog - Notes

Today, we discussed the Article of Confederation and the Bill of Rights. For the first twenty minutes, Mr. Schick gave us the lecture and we took the notes. Later, he showed us a rap about the debate between Hamouaton and Jefferson. The speakers in the room sounds phenomenally well and everyone seems enjoyed the rap.

Blog - Test

Today, we went over the test that we took yesterday. I got 1 question wrong, which is about the first person died in Boston Massacre. Surprising, Jerry did the exact same mistake as i did and we would have had a 100 on the test :O. After that, Mr. Schick told us to read the book about the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation is a plan of government written by colonists in 1777. The Bill of Right listed the actions that the government is not allow to take, in conjunction with being the first amendment of the Constitution.

Blog - Test

Today, Mr. Schick gave us the chapter 3 test, which is kind of unexpected since the test date on veracross is Tuesday. We took the test anyway. After review for 10 minutes, we took the test. Generally speaking, the test is not hard but i miss a few question since i did not cover the following points during the review. This test is going to be the first chapter test that i fail to get a 100 :(. But it's fine~ I did my best.

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Today is Chinese Lunar New Year! Mr. Schick bring us sushi and red packet in the class, which is very surprising! I picked the smallest one among all the envelopes and actually got a dollar. which is more than the sum of pennies in each bags! That just made my day. And then we watched the Chinese New Year celebration TV show, which gets boring and boring each year :( Anyway, it still feels good to be able to celebrate our holiday in US!

Happy Chinese New Year！

祝大家新年快乐

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During the class period, we reviewed the Powerpoint about the American Revolution war for the upcoming test on Monday. In addition, we introduced the tradition of Chinese New Year to Mr. Schick since the lunar New Year day is tomorrow. Mr. Schick was shocked about the tradition of giving red envelop with money inside. It was a fun class after all.

Blog - class

Today

• Mr. Schick revealed us that he is a cellphone addict XD
• I did my presentation about the Treaty of Paris. It went ok but kind of sloppy sometime. It was fine since i did not spend much time for preparing it
• There is 500,000 people showed up in DC and no one actually got arrested
• People are extremely powerful and supportive during the march
• At the end, we discussed our class work from yesterday 

Blog - Chapter Quiz

1. Because French is the first European country that explored and colonized the Ohio River Valley region.

2. The colonists did not obey the law that prohibit them to settle further west. After more acts established, Colonists start protesting since the laws are incredibly unfair.

3. Because France and British have a hostile relationship. By helping colonist fight against the British, France is essentially helping themselves. Same logic applied to other European countries.

4. Jefferson failed in speaking for all colonists since he did not mention the right of woman and slave.

5. The Battle of Trenton. It was the first victory ever for Colonists since the independence war had been declared and thus kindle the fire of hope in Colonist's heart.

Using the Timeline

1. 1774
2. The Boston Massacre

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Toady, we finish our presentation about the revolution war

• Mr. Schick dressed in all black for mourning America (not morning i guess)
• Everyone did a good job on it
• A secret: Mr. Schick forgot my presentation :p Guess i will present next class since i'm tired today
• Trump's inauguration is today.....

Blog - Presentation

During the class period, we did our presentation in the timeline order of the events.

• Everyone is excited
• 3 days left until Trump's inauguration
• Surprisingly, Obama approved Sky and Jerry's presentation right before his retirement 
• Jocelyn did a FANTASTIC job on drawing the figure
• I will present tomorrow since i'm the last one
• Also, today's moment of Zen is kinda of long and i didn't pay attention to it :( 

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Today Mr. Schick assigned us individually the topics from chapter 4 and want us to make a presentation. Mine was the Treaty of Paris, which ends the war between the British and the Colonists. There is only two paragraphs on the text book. In order to fill it up, i summarized what happened before the war briefly. That's what happened today and see u tomorrow Mrs. Schick! We are almost half way done! 呵呵哒

DoC Rewirte

Today, we continued working on rewriting the Declaration of Independence. I finished the starting paragraph and other groups are doing well in writing the complains. I am very excited to see our final works when we wrapped it up tomorrow! It is going to be fun!

DoC Rewrite

Today, Mr. Schick divide us in group for rewriting the Declaration of Independence accord to the current situation of U.S. My group was in charge of writing the first part. For me, i tried to paraphrase the original one while adding some new content in it. It was tough to write since DoI have a national-wise audience range and thus i need to take the preference of the majority in consideration instead of focusing on a relative small group of people. Despite the difficulty, i think we can do it if everybody can contribute some effort.

Class work - Read page 67-76

Questions

1. Who were the Minutemen?

 - They are the group of people form in most towns that can arm themselves for fighting in one minute. Ranged from age 16 to 60.

2. What happened at Lexington and Concord?

-Lexington: The first fight of British and colonists - Minutemen got wound and British continue marching

-Concord: British fights against a large group of minutemen and ends up defeated.

3. What happened at the Second Continental Congress?

-Colonial leader had a meeting in Philadelphia about formally declaring war against British. In the end, they decide to try solve the conflict peacefully while prepare for the war in the worse case.

4. Why was the Battle of Bunker Hill important to the colonists?

-It is a war that leads to the declaration of independence war.

5. Thomas Jefferson draft the Declaration of Independence, which emphasis liberty and personal right  in contrast of harsh British reign.

6 - Loyalists - They want to keep British reign by fight on the British side
   - Patriot - They want British reign to be abolished by declaring war.

7. The Battle of Saratoga shows French that it is possible for colonist to win in despite of disadvantages.

8. George Washington, Marquis de Lafayette, and Baron von Steuben

9. The Treaty of Paris officially ends the war between Colonists and British. British recognized the independence of colonists as the result of the Treaty of Paris.

Section Review

1. Colonists should set up their own government instead of living under British reign.

2. British ships were trapped on the land and French prevented them from being rescued. In consequence, British force surrounded.

3. Declaring war comes at a great cost and it is always the last choice among other means to resolve the conflict with British.

4. Lue

Blog - Test Score & Poem

During the class period, Mr. Schick tell the test score to the people who wants to know earlier. I got a 97 on the multiple choice portion and 98 on the essay, which are pretty decent results to me. Later, we read our poem again with Suky. It was a fun time after all.