Wednesday, November 5

Good morning!!!

Click here - NY Times - Midterm Elections - for information on yesterday's state and national elections.

Click here - Rockland Congressional Races - for information on yesterday's local races.

Today we will begin Chapter 7 - examining: War of 1812, Erie Canal and other technological advances.

Did you ever hear Bruce Springsteen sing the song about the Erie Canal?? Erie Canal, Bruce Springsteen

More about Jacksonian Democracy here -Jacksonian Democracy - History.com

Today in History -

1862		President Abraham Lincoln relieves General George McClellan of command of the Union armies and names Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1872		Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote.
1911		Calbraith P. Rodgers ends first transcontinental flight–49 days from New York to Pasadena, Calif.
1912		Woodrow Wilson is elected 28th president of the United States.
1917		General John Pershing leads U.S. troops into the first American action against German forces.
1935		Parker Brothers company launches "Monopoly," a game of real estate and capitalism.
1940		President Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for third term.
1968		Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, New York, becomes the first elected African American woman to serve in the House of Representatives.