Journal #11 December 4, 2013

To make it to America but also to find a job and live in a beautiful house with children and a wife. It was to be secure with your future. My great grandfather came over when he was 8 and he came from Italy and they lived in New Jersey. 

He is a man who wants the poor to overcome their struggle and to ride above. Knowledge was the true gospel of wealth. Feed them, cloth them, and give them an opportunity.

Journal #10 November 21, 2013

The union and former confederacy now had to unite and agree again. They had to regain there lost allies due to the war such as Britian. They also had to re istablish a trade network and the United States Army. Resolve conflicts that arise due to the aggression from both sides.

Journal #9 November 12, 2013

Irvin McDowell

Ulysses S. Grant

General Farragut

George B. McClellan

General Burnside

General Hooker

George Gordon Meade

General George Pickett

General Sherman 

General Rosecrans

McClellen was the worst of the generals because he lost the most. 

Journal #8 Oct. 22

The American frontier is the Wild West that has not been inhabited by Americans yet. The pioneer spirit is the high moral if exploration and the drive for money and land in a new part of the country. The American Dream is the dream to be successful and wealthy in a new land. Moving West opened new opportunities for people who had a lack of money. In my mind the American dream has not changed people still want to be successful. 

Journal #7 October 8, 2013

If a country owes another country money and they are unable to pay their debts a dispute can occur and conflict can persist. The Constitution created a more powerful central government while the Articles created a legal bases for a permanent union. Because people where oppressed by the high taxes of Britian they did not want the same to occur in the new country. The role let each state determine how it would choose the presidential electors equal to the number of representatives and senators.

Journal #5 October 5, 2013

Americans now had to deal with inflation due to the American Revolution. They also had to deal withy the hatred if the Natives who did not want them to win. They also had to have a military and build up their ability to keep their independence. They also needed to build a navy to support their army. America was still had no government and needed to build that up to keep the country a country.

Journal #4 September 12, 2013

The colonists were forced into the war by having to be soldiers and they had to pay for the war itself. The colonial soldiers had to face the musket fire head on in a mass and were slaughtered but the French and Indians used guerrilla warfare. Colonists were forced to pay large taxes due to the war, and the British government were more involved in the colonial life. The colonists could not expand past the Appalachian Mountains. 

Journal #3 August 23, 2013

The New England society and culture were influenced by Calvinist theology because Calvinists believed in original sin and the theory of predestination. Predestination is the belief that your path to heaven or hell was already decided by God. They also forebode drunkenness, swearing, theft, and laziness. Trying to create the perfect society so everybody went to heaven. 

The people in the south did not believe in predestination. They were not as strict in religion as New England. Had many more slaves than they north because the north had a much stronger work ethic. 

Journal #2 August 19, 2013

Europeans felt with Native Americans as savages. They thought they were devil worshipers because of the human sacrifice. The culture of Native Americans was drastically different from Europeans because they were more down to earth. The Europeans saw this as child like and looked down upon them for their beliefs. They did not covet gold and land they understood what was who's in their community. 

They were considered more advanced and were very wealthy. There large city's were more relevant than Native Americans. They traded with more cultures than Native Americans. Africans were slaves more often than Natives because they were being ship to Europe and the America's for the purpose of slavery. Europeans found free labor worthy of the Africans because they were slaves. 

Both cultures were looked down upon because they were not of European decent they  they were inferior due to the European beliefs.

Journal #1 August 16, 2013

In my opinion there were small parts of the Native Americans that were developed. The Mayans and the Incas were very developed. They had written language, a calendar and a knowledge of astrology. They had large cities and roads with complex religions, some had human sacrifices. The tribes of the Mohawks, Iroquois, and the Senecas were not as developed as the Mayans and Incas but had a close relationship with each other and the earth. They did not want material items and the Europeans thought of them as childish. They were not fully equal but both cultures had slavery, war, and plunder. They both regarded hunting and fishing as a sport but also has a food source.