Pictorial Presentations - Ch. 14 Summary - New State Government in 1845

Today students

• Presented their pictorial representations of To Be a Slave - Excellent work, students who completed this!
• Began reading and discussing the Ch. 14 Summary
• Discussed the structure of Texas government under the new Texas State Constitution of 1845
• Discussed how Texas and the South were solidly for the Democratic Party until the mid-1960s (except during Radical Reconstruction) & are now generally solidly for the Republican Party

Assignments

For Monday
1. Read pp. 96-116 in To Be a Slave and add to your Pictorial Presentation
2. Prepare for Monday's Mexican War Debate: Was it right for the United States to fight in the Mexican War of 1846-1848 and take the northern half of Mexico?

• Read & take Yes|No notes from the HOTO article on the Mexican War
• Color code Yes|No information in this handout on the Mexican War

For Tuesday - Quiz over Ch. 14 Summary on The Lone Star State