Civil War Blog Post

Mexican-American War

A. This battle happened in 1846

B. The U.S.A had 13,283 casualties, where as Mexico had 25,000 casualties.

C. The United States Was considered the winner.

D. The outcome was that Mexico gave the United States their Northern Territories such as California, New Mexico, and parts of Northern Mexico.

How Did The Civil War End?

The surrender happened with General Lee's troops were surrounded by Grant's trooops on April 7th, and Grant called on Lee to surrender. On April 9th, 1865, the two General's met and discussed the terms of surrender. Grant offered Lee that the confederates only had to give up their weapons and leave peace, this was considered generous. The CIvil war was no considered O.V.E.R.

Journal Entry (Trail Of Tears)

February 9th, 1832

Today we traveled 10 miles non-stop. My mother, father, and I stopped to take a break at around lunch time. For lunch was uncooked rice, since we didn’t have enough time to stop and cook it. My family keeps getting in fights, over the smallest of things too, such as who gets to wear the blanket at lunch, or who gets another helping of rice. Dead bodes are scattered around and the snow is no longer white, more of a dark shade of red. But my father says not to look down, to keep my head up and never to stop, or that could easily be me. As we travel along, we sing to keep our minds off of everything. Dad’s finger was frozen to the bone, so at lunch time we chopped it off for him. Many people passing by shrieked in horror. This sound was nothing new to me. Now, as we walk along, my family talks about how great our life will be after this whole thing is over. Hope is the only thing that I live for anymore. We have got a lot of traveling done today, nearly 10 miles, but we must keep going. Goodbye for now.

LOVE,

Chapawee

summary

Section 1:

*Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied for the title of President of the United States in the election of 1800.

*They came up with a new way to vote where President and Vice President get elected seperatly in case of tie.

* Thomas Jefferson was named President of 1800.



Section 2:

*Southerners used the Missippi River to ship goods to the Northerners. Spain owned the Missippi River and Louisana and they often threatened to cut off all shipping involved with the Missippi river.

* USA came up with a treaty with Spain so that Spain couldn't cut the shipping. Spain secretly gave the land& river to France without United States knowing.

*United States bought Louisiana and the Missippi River for $15 million. Buying this land doubled the countries land.

Section 3:

*France and Britian go to war leading to United States trade restriction.

*Jefferson called an Embargo on foreign trade, and congress passed it.

Section 4:

*War of 1812 broke out. The main reason America wanted war with Britain was because of trade policies.

* In 1814 the British were able to send more troops to fight in the United States because they had finaly defeated Napoleon.

*The Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812.

*Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton during a duel and Alexander Hamilton DIED.

Newzzz Story (:

Did YOU know the fear of spiders APPARENTLY can be developed before birth? well I didn't at all, so that's why I'm doing my blog on this news story.

Scientists figure humans may be born with a fear of spiders and snakes, healthy phobias that up the odds of survival in the wild. It's not known how such an inborn fear might develop, however.
Now researchers have proven that unborn crickets can gain a fear of spiders based on their mother's harrowing experiences.
Scientists put pregnant crickets into terrariums containing a wolf spider. The spiders' fangs were covered with wax so the spiders could stalk but not kill the pregnant crickets. After the crickets laid their eggs, the researchers compared the behavior of the offspring with offspring whose mothers hadn't been exposed to spiders.
The differences were dramatic, the scientists said.
The newborn crickets whose mothers had been exposed to a spider were 113 percent more likely to seek shelter and stay there. They were also more likely to freeze when they encountered spider silk or feces — a behavior that could prevent them from being detected by a nearby spider. Overall, these newborns had better survival rates than other newborn crickets, eaten by the wolf spiders for the sake of science.
In humans, research also suggests the widespread fear of spiders and snakes (arachnophobia and ophidiophobia, respectively) may be innate. A study in 2008 found that both adults and children could detect images of snakes or spiders among a variety of non-threatening objects more quickly than they could pinpoint frogs, flowers or caterpillars. One researcher, anthropologist Lynn Isbell of the University of California, Davis, thinks our fear of snakes goes way, way back. She figures snakes were the first predators of early primates and contributed to the evolution of relatively good vision — useful for spotting snakes — that we enjoy today.
The results of the cricket test suggest that "the transfer of information from mother to offspring about predation risk, in the absence of any parental care, may be more common than one might think," said Jonathan Storm of the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg.
Pregnant crickets from the wild, including some from habitats where wolf spiders are common and others from places where spiders are scarce, confirmed the effect is not limited to lab situations. Storm and colleague Steven Lima of Indiana State University detail their results in the American Naturalist.
Scientists aren't sure how the fear is passed down, but they speculate that stressful events like predator attacks trigger the release of a hormone in the mother that influences the development of the embryo.



ALRIGHT. So, I only read about half of this story because its SO long, but my opinion is that these people are nuts, and that this is not even possible to fear spiders before ever being born. The baby has no clue what a spider or snake even is, so how could they fear it. I don't believe that the hormones in the mother influence a fear of spiders at all. Plus, I think that scientists probably have more important things to be looking into besides fear of spiders, like maybe they could be trying to find a cure for cancer or something?! I don't know, that's just my opinion on the whole thing and I do NOT think that scientists can accurately prove and predict if a person is truly going to be 100 % afraid of spiders or snakes.
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