Tuesday, October 28

Good morning!!!

Today we will finish looking at America, The Story of US - we will look at the Erie Canal, impact of cotton on the south and slave trade.

Homework - Read pages 197-201 and answer questions 3 & 4.

Today in History -

1636		Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Mass.
1776		Battle of White Plains was fought in the American Revolution
1793		Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin, a machine which cleans the tight-clinging seeds from short-staple cotton easily and effectively–a job which was previously done by hand.
1886		The Statue of Liberty, originally named Liberty Enlightening the World, is dedicated at Liberty Island, N. Y., formerly Bedloe's Island, by President Grover Cleveland
1901		Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington's visit to the White House kill 34.
1904		The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints.
1962		Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1965		Construction completed on St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world's tallest arch.