Review Sheet Missing

Sorry students, but I thought I left my review sheet here next to the computer and it is not here. I have searched around for it, but cannot find it. We went over the review really well as a class today. We will have a few minutes before the test that I will be able to answer your questions before the test.

HOWEVER, read through the past few blogs - civil rights, Kennedy and Johnson and each will direct you to very relavent material.

Next stop VIETNAM.

Civil Rights and 1960s Review

Sorry it took so long, but I just got finished grading all of the quizzes (US History and Economics). In my rush I put some of the answers out of order. Please make sure you put the answer with the number indicated on this page. ( mainly look at 7. then 5.)

1. taking pride in Black Heritage, think Malcolm X
2. what LBJ called his program (remember his University of Michigan commencement address in May 1964 - before the election)
3. what JFK's program was called.
4. after Rosa Parks did not give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, MLK and other African American civil rights activists led an 11 month long bus strike.
7. JFK's plan to send young men and women to perform humanitarian work in developing countries.
6.Supreme Court decision to allow segregation must be "seperate but equal."
5. Supreme Court decision that outlawed "seperate but equal" gave civil rights incentive
8. people wanting to change "the system"
9. allowed people to vote only if they had a relative vote prior to 1865 (kept African Americans from voting because they were slaves before then, but allowed poor whites to vote)
10. you could vote only if you could pass the reading test. (again, most African Americans could not read)
11. must pay a "fee" in order to vote.
12. allow races to coexist


More tomorrow...

Conspiracy and Coincidence

Conspiracy Theories Abound,

But here are a few....



Here is a link from the Houston Chronicle that summarizes the more popular conspiracy theories involving the assination of President Kennedy. http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/jfk/theory/index.html



This link will send you to various conspiracy theory links including the Houston Chronicle.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sites.htm



Conspiracies aren't alone,

Coincidences Mount As Well...



Here are several links that tie in Kennedy with Lincoln.

http://www.coverups.com/jfk/lincoln.htm

http://people.consolidated.net/vmun/presidential.html



This one analyzes their strange connection and refutes it.

http://www.kilty.com/l_and_k.htm




Have a fun weekend!

The Democrat Presidents of the 1960s

A great source for more information about our presidents is their presidential libraries. All correspondence and papers that were written and logged all go to their libraries once they leave office.

John F. Kennedy's library is in Boston http://www.jfklibrary.org/ you can take the tour, read the White House diary or view the timeline. This is a great website!

Lyndon Johnson's library is in Austin http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/main.htm all of the links are great. You can read his Great Society speech and check out the information on his domestic and foreign policies.

Keep checking back for more information including conspiracy theories!!!

Have a good weekend.

I am Back! Civil Rights

Here are a few good sites to visit to learn more of Civil Rights.

The Civil Rights Museum http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/gallery/gallery1.asp you can look at the exhibits and read about important events. If you read about a certain event (Montgomery Bus Boycott, Sit Ins, Ole Miss, etc) it will give you people's names and events that you search for more information.

Here is a different site "for kids" but it has good pictures and easy reading for you.
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/civil_rights_museum

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute http://www.bcri.org/resource_gallery/interview_segments/index.htm# has great resources for research, but this link goes to directly to their Oral History Project where you can see and read interviews of key people involved in the civil rights movement, not just the main people you hear and read about.

Civil Rights Memorial opens with Dr. Martin Luther King speaking
http://www.tolerance.org/memorial/ just go through this site at your leisure. It is very moving.

Selma to Montgomery also known as "Bloody Sunday" You can see what the bridge looks like today and pictures from that fateful day.
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm

Tomorrow will be other things of the 1960s.

Been grading papers.....

Sorry guys but I have been grading papers and what I have seen so far is not good. I have decided you need to work on the review yourselves first and we will do it in class instead of having fun outside. Sorry!!!!! Look back a few days in the blog and go to the interactive CNN site for some review.