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 * United States History: Beginnings to 1914** Name:Emma Yang Class: 8C

Use your online textbook to answer the following questions. Answer them on this document on your MacBook. Your answers should be in a colour other than black (but still easy to read).

1. Look at section 2 of Chapter 12, what’s the big idea?
 * The introduction of factories changed working life for many americans

2. The “social study skills” section in section 6 will help you answer this, what is context?
 * A context is the circumstances under which something happens. Historical context includes values, beliefs, conditions, and practices that were common in the past. At times, some of these were quite different from what they are today. To truly understand a historical statement or event, you have to take its context into account. It is not right to judge what people in history did or said based on presentday values alone. To be fair, you must also consider the historical context of the statement or event.

3. What map appears on pg 99? - Map of Virginia 4. Check the test practice in chapter 16 “The Civil War”. What is the answer to number 4? How many tries did it take you? - The Gettysburg Address, 2 tries 5. In the video “The Impact of Being Able to Choose Your Own Government” (an eActivity for chapter 4) what is the last word spoken? - In the video, the last word that was spoken was “ It is a serious responsibility for all the citizens”. 6. Have a look at the timeline in the chapter opener of “Expanding The West”. What American mariner is mentioned in the final entry? - Commodore matthew Perry is mentioned in the final entry. 7. Examine the historical literature mentioned in Chapter 14. How many stanzas are in the poem provided? What’s a belfry” - 3 stanzas are in the poem. Belfry: bell tower 8 . What City is the last picture on the last page of? - ( what page is the last page? ) 9. Go to page 303, use the websites “highlight and annotate” tool to highlight the 2nd paragraph. Did it work? Why or why not? - ( doesn’t open) 10. From the “references” tab download “geography map skills”. Parallels of __lines__ measure distances __Horizontal__ and __Vertical__ of the __Equator__. Label these symbols ° __Degrees__ and ‘ __Minutes__.

The lines that run north and south on a map are the meridians of __________, they measure distances __________ and __________ of the Prime Meridian in __________,__________.

Parallels north of the equator are marked with an __N__, those to the south are marked with an __S__. Meridians east of the Prime Meridian are marked with an __E__ and if they are west of Greenwich then they are marked with a __W__

There are __60__ minutes in one degree.