Timeline Points
1877 - Compromise of 1877, or the "Corrupt Bargain," settled Presidential election dispute and ended Reconstruction in the South
1877 - Battle of Little Big Horn "Custer's Last Stand"
Homework:
We discussed the Battle of Little Big Horn in class. Read the bottom article on this link to see why some disagree with the reports of the battle. Who was involved? Why would the government present a false representation of history? Do you think they did? Come prepared to share.
http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-little-bighorn
Watch a Civil War movie over the break. Here are some suggestions for titles. Many are available online or through the library.
http://heartofwisdom.com/blog/learn-history-w-movies/ (Look under Civil War/Reconstruction tab)
http://catalog.metrolibrary.org (A search for civil war movies yielded lots of options!)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=american+civil+war+movies+full+length (Several full-length civil war movies on YouTube)
Quotes: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/civil-war
“No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I should watch and work to keep his little daughters safe and good for him.
Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn’t cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help, said Jo, wondering.
I gave my best to the country I love, and kept my tears till he was gone. Why should I complain, when we both have merely done our duty and will surely be the happier for it in the end? If I don’t seem to need help, it is because I have a better friend, even than Father, to comfort and sustain me. My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you love and trust Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but my become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn’t cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help, said Jo, wondering.
I gave my best to the country I love, and kept my tears till he was gone. Why should I complain, when we both have merely done our duty and will surely be the happier for it in the end? If I don’t seem to need help, it is because I have a better friend, even than Father, to comfort and sustain me. My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you love and trust Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but my become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
― Abraham Lincoln
― Abraham Lincoln
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