Tuesday, December 2

Good morning!

Please give me your Chapter 8 Section 1 and 2 handout, if you didn't yesterday. We will be looking at how Andrew Jackson's enfranchisement of the "common people" helped bring about reform through religion within slavery and abolition.

Today in History -

1823

President James Monroe outlined his famous doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.

1859

Abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry.

1954

The Senate voted to condemn Republican senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."

1982

Barney B. Clark became the first person to receive an artificial heart in a transplant operation.

1988

Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head an Muslim nation.