Monday, January 5

Good morning!  Happy New Year!!!

Today we will finish Gone with the Wind and begin to look at the many causes of the Civil War.

This Date in History (look at 1914):

1815   Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution.
1914   Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year's profits.
 1920   GOP women demand equal representation at the Republican National Convention in June. .
 1925   Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States. 
1982   A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.

Homework  - Read Chapter 9, Section 1 and answer questions 3 & 4