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Worksheet time: 25mins
What did most of the land acquisitions during Manifest Destiny have in common?
The United States acquired land from European nations.
The United States militarily expanded defeating the native populations.
The United States acquired more territory to protect itself from Britain.
The United States was given the land by divine intervention.
How did the United States use the idea of Manifest Destiny?
to justify moving the Native Americans
to explain their treatment of European immigrants
to protect its borders from European invasion
to justify their rebellion against Great Britain.
How did the Indian Removal Act change American expansion policies?
The federal government officially forced natives from their homelands.
The federal government worked diligently to prevent human rights violations.
The United States Supreme Court ruled the Indian Removal Act unconstitutional.
Native Americans were required to assimilate to American culture for citizenship.
Which best describes the speaker's attitude for the historic event?
He feels sorrow for the Native Americans.
He condemns the actions of the Cherokee people.
He supports granting citizenship to the natives.
He feels anger toward the Spanish who enslaved the Cherokee.
What was the largest economic and cultural differences of the North and South?
attitudes toward slavery
attitudes toward Native Americans
income inequality of the working class
support of the Federal Reserve System
How did the Civil War politically change the South?
Slaves were given citizenship and civil liberties.
Slaves were sent to internment camps or reservations.
The South was given political freedom under a new system of government.
White southerners were required to pay war reparations to remain part of the United States.
How did new laws during Reconstruction shape culture in the American South?
The South remained culturally divided as blacks were segregated.
The South's customs culturally diffused during westward expansion.
The North committed atrocities of cultural genocide against the South.
Southerners were required to allow slaves to practice their new civil liberties.
Make an inference on the following:
At the railroad crossing, the bells clanged jarringly, the red lights flashed, and the crossing gates descended to block the roadway. O’Brien exhaled a sigh, and rapped her fingertips impatiently against the inside of the driver's door. Slowly a train clattered across her field of vision: 89 railroad cars! As she waited for them all to pass, she planned what she would say to Dr. Ferlinger when she arrived at his office.
What is the Main Idea?
Someone is trying to break into a car that is stopped at a railroad crossing.
Someone is in a rush to get to a doctor's appointment but frustrated they have to wait at the railroad crossing.
Trains are too long and make driving inconvenient.
Railroad tracks are very dangerous and should always have crossing gates.
Make an inference on the following:
Eleanor was the definition of a competent, self-sufficient person. On her one-woman homestead, she raised chickens, goats, and a cow and grew vegetables and fruits. From those starting points, she gathered eggs, churned butter, made cheese, preserves, and pickles, and sold fresh produce.
What is the Main Idea?
One-woman farms can be incredibly prosperous.
Eleanor sold other goods along with her produce.
Eleanor is a competent, self-sufficient person.
Hard work can help you turn something simple into a successful business.
What piece(s) of evidence in the paragraph BEST supports the main idea?
MAIN IDEA: Someone is frustrated and in a rush to get to a doctor's appointment.
At the railroad crossing, the bells clanged jarringly, the red lights flashed, and the crossing gates descended to block the roadway. O’Brien exhaled a sigh, and rapped her fingertips impatiently against the inside of the driver's door. Slowly a train clattered across her field of vision: 89 railroad cars! As she waited for them all to pass, she planned what she would say to Dr. Ferlinger when she arrived at his office.
O’Brien exhaled a sigh, and rapped her fingertips impatiently.
Slowly a train clattered across her field of vision: 89 railroad cars!
She planned what she would say to Dr. Ferlinger when she arrived at his office.
At the railroad crossing, the bells clanged jarringly, the red lights flashed, and the crossing gates descended to block the roadway.
Which supporting detail does not support the main idea?
Main idea: Technology can help students learn.
Students who are struggling can use educational websites to study at their own pace.
It's fun to look up Youtube videos in your free time.
Many word processors have spell check to help with spelling.
Students can communicate with each other about class assignments.
How does the wording of this title on an 1833 abolitionist newspaper encourage readers to adopt the newspaper's point of view?
It was the first time a newspaper used the term "Universal Emancipation."
It uses the word Emancipation instead of Abolition.
It insinuates that if you agree with the newspaper's point of view, you are a genius.
Reread this quote from the text:
"Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came."
What does the phrase “deprecated war” mean here?
looked forward to war.
disliked war.
prepared for war.
There are two kinds of energy: renewable and nonrenewable. If something is nonrenewable, it goes away once it’s used. Think of a candle as an example of a nonrenewable energy source. Once you set the wick on fire, the candle begins to burn down. Eventually, it will burn completely out and then it will be gone forever. If an energy source is renewable, then to the best of our knowledge, that means the energysource will continue to be available even if we use it. These energy sources make more of themselves. They renew themselves.
If you want a small Apple phone you'd be better off opting for the iPhone SE. Alternatively check out our iPhone 7 Plus review. Yes that phone is even more expensive, but it lasts a lot longer and has an even better camera that offers proper zoom. There is one other option to consider too if you're hooked on Apple. The iPhone 6S Plus remains a great phone, has strong battery life and costs exactly the same as the iPhone 7.
This film has great acting and brings to light history of our space program that I had never been made aware of. Not only does it show how African American women contributed to mathematics but also to computer science and engineering!! Great movie and should be required viewing in every school!
What is the best word to describe the author's attitude in the following passage:
The R.M.S. Titanic was cruising at 23 knots in the mid-Atlantic when it struck an iceberg and slowly sank. There were not enough lifeboats to save everyone. 1,523 people went down with the ship into water icy enough to cause instant pain and death by hypothermia within ten to fifteen minutes. After the stern of the ship disappeared beneath the glassy waters, 308 people remained bobbing on the surface, screaming for help. There were, in fact, 20 life boats lingering nearby, which failed to come to their rescue immediately. By the time lifeboat crewmen organized themselves and came back with just one boat, almost all in the water had died.
Frightened.
Tragic.
Doubtful.
Objective.
What is the best word to describe the author's attitude in the following passage:
The White Star Corporation was terribly arrogant to build a ship and not provide enough lifeboats for all its passengers. Its management was concerned that too many lifeboats on the Titanic would “sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship.” What were they thinking? No ship is unsinkable. And even more unforgivable is that, despite warnings of icebergs, the Titanic was cruising at top speed in order to break a speed record when it encountered the iceberg. What a horrific price those passengers had to pay so that the White Star Corporation could learn a lesson in humility.
Outrage.
Serious.
Cruel.
Worried.
