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Extra Credit.
December 7 marks the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Use the following sites to write a brief essay (two pages) on the chronology of the event. Be sure to include the names of the three aircraft carriers that were not moored in the harbor at the time of the attack.
"Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their value, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died."
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Veterans Day. Good Luck!
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Explain how a brief is presented to the Supreme Court. Hint: Check our American History Web page. Submit to Mr.Yager for 10 bonus points. Good Luck!
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See Amendment Poster. This project is worth 50 points.
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If Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for the office of President of the United States, could he be elected? Explain. Good Luck.
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President Andrew Johnson was impeached because Congress claimed he violated the ______________________ of _________________ Act. Identify this act and Submit to Mr.Yager for 10 bonus points. Good Luck.
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Name the publisher of your Social Studies text book. Submit to Mr.Yager for 10 bonus points. Good Luck.
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How were locomotives used to end state fairs from 1896-1910?
Hint. Search for Crush Texas or look for Joe Connolly. Submit to Mr.Yager for 10 bonus points. Good Luck.
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In observance of Memorial Day. Name the five beaches (in Normandy), American and Allied forces landed on in the D-Day invasion, June 6, 1944. Hint.
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Identify this simple machine. Who invented it? When? Good Luck!
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Where did Martin Luther King deliver the "Mountain Top" speech? When? Good Luck!
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Which presidential candidate won the popular vote in the election of 1876? Submit to Mr. Yager for 10 points.
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Name the law passed in response to the events of September 11, 2001. Hint.
(10 points).
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December 7 marks the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. For 20 bonus points name the three aircraft carriers that were not moored in the harbor at the time of the attack.
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Time Magazine selected this man as its "2001 Person of the Year". Identify the individual, his official title, a short biography, and the reasons why he was selected in a one page paper. Submit for 20 bonus points. For an additional 5 points identify Time's first Person of the Year. Happy New Year!.
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This Civil War Hero is currently mounted on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. Name him for 20 extra credit points. Good Luck. Hint! His unusual speed was documented in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864.
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What is a Jeff Davis, or Sherman necktie?
Answer. Explain the graphic. Who, what, where, when, and most importantly, Why? Submit your answer for 20 extra credit points.
On May 12, 1864 this shattered stump was a large oak tree in a rolling meadow just west of the Spotsylvania Court House. Early that morning 1200 entrenched troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee waited for the assault of 5000 Union troops from the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Twenty hours later the once-peaceful meadow had aquired a new name, the Bloody Angle. The same rifle bullets that cut down 2,000 combatants tore away all twenty-two inches of the tree's trunk. Look closely and you can still the shape of the conical minie balls (bullets) still embedded in the wood. This came to symbolize the valor and heroism of a great battle. Where is Spotsylvania?
What national monument is the sculputre of Lincoln looking towards? What is Robert E. Lee Looking towards?
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The Union Army's discovery of a copy of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 near Frederick, Maryland, on September 13, 1862, outlining the disposition of his thin and widespread Army of Northern Virginia, precipitated the Battle of Antietam four days later. The revelations of the orders, called the "Lost Order" in the North and the "Lost Dispatch" in the South, prompted Union commander Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan to pursue Lee's divided army and force that fateful clash from which the South never fully recovered. Who lost the Lost Order No.191? Which Union Fighting Regiment is credited with finding the Lost Order No. 191?
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Dr. Terry Roberts spoke to Ralston students on Wednesday May 22, 2002 and again on January 31, 2007 on his experiences at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in September 1957. For 10 extra credit points supply the names of the remainder of the "Little Rock Nine". Submit to Mr. Yager.
For more information on the course contact: Bryan Yager
byager@mail.arc.nasa.gov or
byager@smcoe.k12.ca.us
Ralston Middle School 637-4880
