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Time line of the 1850's

12/3/2012 and 12/4/2012

In class today we did an ED Cafe activity. Our activity was to show that the person we studied was te most important person in comtribuing to the movement. I had Harriet Beecher Stowe. When we were discusing our people i found it easy to relate all of how they each contributed to the movement. Many people had relationships with other people which helped them make a difference. Ofcourse everyone believes they are right so we were bound to butt heads a bit especially with a expressive class like ours. I found it no trouble to say what i felt and why i thought it, although sometimes what i said didn't make sense i felt that i might have gotten people to think of other things as well. It was one of my favorite classes and i loved how the class room was full of chatter and how we were all so passionate in our discusions.

12/30/12

In class we watched a clip about the debate lincon and Douglas had. This debate helped me better understand how really different each canidate was and how they would state their own opinions and how they disagreed withone another. I noticed that the crowds would get really in to these debates. This was another perfect example of how technology has helped me better understand what is going on in class. Whatching the debate gave me a sense of how people were divided and how passionate both canidates were. It goes to show out side sources and an extra tool can help really connect the dots for some people like me. Another example of how great technology is!

11/27/12 11/28/12

In class we read information on the case of Dred Scott. It was mind blowing that people were considered to be property. When you look at a person you see them as they are, a person, when you look at land or something someone would consider "property" your first thought is not humans. What makes no sense is how anyone can just own a human being its like "hey im selling my brother, 100 bucks and he is all yours". One other thing we leared is that lincon did not agree with the whole dred Scott case and that Douglas wasn't overly vocal on his opinion. Pretty much everything Lincon was for Douglass was against.This is what helped the people decide who they wanted to vote for because they were almost complete oppistes which made it eaiser to guess there opinions on things.