What Have I Learned From The Socratic Seminar

The Socratic Seminar did help me in many ways and I think did learn to all the class a new way of teaching ideas to each other. From this Socratic Seminar we did learn from each other point of view.

During the Socratic Seminar I have learned:

• A new way of teaching ideas to each other
• How to share our ideas
• We learned each other point of view on every question

This are the most helpful ideas that I learned from the Socratic Seminar

US And UN Struggle To Distribute Haiti Aid

About 20 American military Black Hawk helicopters have descended on the ruined grounds of Haiti’s presidential palace.Troops unloaded equipment, water and food rations, raising hopes that it would become a forward base for the distribution of aid.Since the earthquake a week ago, Haitians desperate for life’s basics, and frustrated by the lack of aid reaching them, have posed an increasing headache for security services.Overstretched UN peacekeepers dispersed a crowd of survivors who were searching for anything, from water to a mat to sleep on.The Haitian police too have had their work cut out as lawlessness spreads throughout the capital Port au Prince. Shots rang out as scores of Haitians raided a destroyed hardware shop. And to help bring some semblance of normality back to Haiti’s streets, the UN Security Council has unanimously agreed to send 3.500 more troops and police in the hope they will afford some relief to the security forces already there.

http://www.euronews.net/2010/01/19/earthquake-us-and-un-struggle-to-distribute-haiti-aid/

Pros and Cons

From the successes:

• The union is restored and I think this is a great success and the most important for me
• The south economy is growing up and it will help them reconstruct what the north had destroyed during the war
• The 14th and 15th amendments will help the African Americans enjoy life for the first time in USA
• This Bureau is a very good creation because it will help the blacks have rights among the whites
• To have a mandatory education is a very good because some families do not have money to send their child to school

From the Failures:

• Many southerners stood democrats and the republicans and federals were doing there jobs for nothing
• The south will not gain a lot of money because they are slow in industrializing
• It is sad that Terrorists did not let the African Americans vote for their next President
• Many people became poor because of the war they lost job opportunities
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Friday Homework

Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan after Lincoln's death was to:

1) Pardons would be granted to those taking a loyalty.

2) No pardons would be available to high confederate and people owning properties that are more than $20,000.

3) A state was required to repeal it's secession ordinance.

Black Codes:

The black codes were laws that blacks had to follow in the USA about civil rights and civil liberties.

These laws were very limited to them.

Amendments 14 and 15:

The 14th amendment says that every citizen have his rights.

The 15th amendment says that every one have the right to vote if they are older then 18 years old.

The laws were also according to the blacks.

Radical Reconstruction:

The radical reconstruction is when republicans were not happy about the 13,14 and 15 th amendments.

Carpetbagger:

The term carpetbagger actually means a bag made out of carpet but it is also an expression to call someone from the north of the USA.

Scalawag:

Scalawag was a moniker for southern whites who supported reconstruction after the civil war.

Role Play

As you all know the civil war just stopped and it was the biggest massacre the USA have lived since it's foundation. The North have destroyed many things in the South. Most of the war ships have been destroyed 9000 miles of rail roads have also been destroyed most of it in the South. Farm lands, Farm building have been destroyed too. Other things destroyed are the factories, ports, cities and canals. The most important thing that were destroyed are soldiers, over 600,000 soldiers(from the North and South) have died during the civil war. One family out of three have been touched. Four million Black people are now free and to do what ever they want. The former slaves owners had now to let blacks vote, run for office and learn(go to school). While the South had to rebuilt their farms, houses and factories, little of the North have been destroyed.

Would a War Tax end the War?

If people had to pay taxes for war then they will maybe no war again in the world. By making the price to 11 billion dollars per month the war effort costs would pay for a lot of health care and other needs but I am not sure that raising taxes during a recession is a good.

What I remenbered from the video?

From the video I remembered many things such as:

California was a free state, New Mexico and Utah were becoming free states too. He wanted slavery to be allowed on the mexico territorry. Harriet Tubman was a spy of the USA during the civil, she contributed to the cretion of the underground railroad and she saved many slaves by sending them to the North and to Canada were they could be free.By late September, California was recongnized has a free state and New Mexico and Utah were created and they also signed the legislation by late September and Texas became has a slave state. The compromise was well suported by the nation. Slaves could have get 10$ if they said that they are slaves and 5$ if they say that they are free. If you lived in the north during the 1850's the south was far away. Harriet Stowe wrote a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. Harriet family were abalonist or in the minister. Sha writes because she is very christians and she says that slaves should be treated with religions the same way as white people and not differently.Steven Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska act and the big problem is that they wanted to make one state free and one state not free.Southerners wanted Kansas as a free state. In 1855 the election and the problem was that there are 3 million people living in Kansas and they got 6 million votes.