Debate on Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Spreadsheet & Chart on Slave Population in Texas

Today we:

• Debated quite cogently: "Was it right for the United States to fight the Mexican War?"
• Made an Excel Spreadsheet & Chart on Slave Population & Total Population of Texas - 1819-1860. Instructions here.

Assignments 

For Tuesday

1. Quiz: Ch. 14 Summary: The Young State (Early Statehood)
2. Read 1 page from Fehrenbach's Lone Star - Make a blog post in which you state in one good sentence what the page was about & write 5 bullet-pointed sentences of the most important facts or arguments Fehrenbach wrote.
3. Read pp. 117-129 on Slave Resistance 2 in To Be a Slave. Add a picture and quotation/explanation to your Pictorial Presentation on TBaS.

For Wednesday

1. Read pp. 130-143 on Emancipation in To Be a Slave
2. Finish Excel Spreadsheet & Chart & write the 7 sentences called for in the Instructions (5 on slave population 1819-1860 & 2 relating slave population to total population). Write more for Extra Credit.