Fishes!

The fishes below this page represents America with their skin color of Red, white, and blue.

American's Best 19th Century Travel Company

This is a poster me and Bob made.
Here is a link to the travel guide and information: http://www.mediafire.com/?89m9djclhqadslf
This journey will take place in 1890 from March to April.
Transportations for this trip will mainly be railroads, but except for Mississippi River because we are taking a cruise. It would be good if you can bring an instant camera (cameras that print out the picture immediately)

American Civil War / Student Free Choice

The American Civil war is also known as the war between States. The civil war started on 1861 and ended on 1865. It is a war between Confederant, southern US and Union, Northern US. The Unions were trying to abolish slavery in Northern US and the Confederants were in favor of slaveries. The Civil War started by the Confederants attacking Fort Sumter on April 1861. During the Civil War, the Confederants recruited a few more slave states. Confederants lost the war by giving up later on 1865, but President Lincoln was assisinated by one of the actors while he was watching the performance "Our American Cousins". The person was hanged later in that month after Lincoln was assassinated. Overall, I think that Confederants would still be here nowadays if they stayed in their place and fight in their place. Since, Southern US is more like an agricultural place and the Northern part is more like a city. Southern US also have slaves working on the field, so they have enough food to survive if they stayed in place. I was surprised that Civil War ended by slavery is still spread throughout some parts of US until the 21st century. Nowadays, slavery is like being paid very low wages and you have to pay back the money you earned for the rent of your house or apartment. Some might not even be able to pay the rent which is worse than slavery because they will have nowhere else to live in!

Louisiana Purchase / Student Free Choice

Louisiana purchase is a treaty that was signed on the date of April 30th, 1803. The US purchased the western part of US stretching from Mississipi River to the Rocky Mountain. It was bought from France for approximately 11.5 million dollar USD for the land. The reason why France decided to sell Louisiana is that Napoleon I lost most of his men from yellow fever. In order to defeat Great Britain, he has to raise funds by selling Louisiana to US. Later followed by the Louis and Clark Expedition. The crew was named the Corps of Discovery and the purpose of that expedition is to explore the western part of US. Their journey started during 1804 and ended on 1806.

Louisiana Purchase:

History of Statue of Liberty / Student Free Choice

The Statue of Liberty is a statue that was given by the French as a gift during the American Revolution. During the construction, there was financial problems for both sides.  Americans were building the foot and French were building the statue. French designer Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was the person who came up with the design of Statue of Liberty. Statue of Liberty is a symbol of Freedom for America (Declaration of Independence). He came up with the design on 1876. Since there was financial problems for both sides, Joseph Pulitzer decided to criticize rich Americans for not donating, and middle-class for relying on rich Americans on newspapers. Americans immediately donated money after that. Later in 1885, Americans finished constructing the foot/support of the Statue of Liberty and French finished the statue on 1884. It was shipped to America later in 1885. In 1984, the United Nations decided to restore the Statue of Liberty. The restoration was completed in 1986. The island the Statue of Liberty is on was named Liberty Island later in the 20th century.

The Statue of Liberty:

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Here is a link to my Google Earth Tour: http://www.mediafire.com/?i3crq08qj4uq2t9
You must download Google Earth version 6 in order to view this video.

IDEA PAGE

This is an idea page I came up with during Mr.Marrow's speech towards baseball.