For the Week of Feb. 22

 For the Week of February 22:

1. Read chapters 37 and 38 in SoTW.
2. Answer the questions.
3. Read No Summit Out of Sight chapters 19-21.
4. Write in your Mindfulness Journal pages 42 and 44.
5. Research for your five paragraph essay and WRITE YOUR THESIS STATEMENT.

Chapter 37

The Zulu Kingdom

1. What land was known to Europeans as “the dark continent?”
2. Why do we know less about African history than about English?
3. Whose permission did the two English traders need before they could build and trading post?
4. What was the name of the trading post that the Englishmen built?
5. What did the two English merchants learn about Shaka?
6. Why did Nandi and her son, Shaka, move away from Nandi’s family?
7. In his new kingdom of Mtetwa, Shaka learned to be a good soldier. What job did the king of Mtetwa give to Shaka after Shaka’s father died?
8. When Shaka seized control of his father’s kingdom, how did he change the weapons the army used?
9. What are some of the other improvements that Shaka made to the army?
10. Withe his new disciplined army, who did Shaka target first?
11. What did Shaka do when he returned to Mtetwa?
12. What did Africans call the period of ten years during which Shaka spread his rule throughout the continent?
13. What happened to Shaka when his mother died?
14. Who eventually murdered Shaka?

The Boers and the British

1. What was the name of the Dutch settlement at the bottom of South Africa?
2. What did the Dutch who settled in Cape Colony call themselves?
3. What did the slaves do in Cape Colony?
4. What country had taken over the rule of Cape Colony?
5. What did the British do that angered many off the Boers?
6. Where did the Boers go when they left Cape Colony on their Great Trek?
7. What did Dingane do that angered the Boers?
8. How did the Boers ensure victory against the Zulus?
9. What did the Boers call their new settlement, near Durban?
10. What eventually happened to the the Boer settlement of Natal?
11. What were the two other nations that the Boers established in Africa?

Chapter 38

The Trail of Tears

1. American settlers who wanted to build houses on Native American land were supposed to do something. What was it?
2. Which president of the United States signed the Indian Removal Act?
3. What did the Indian Removal Act say?
4. Why did the American government think the Indian Removal Act was a good idea?
5. What were the Five Civilized Tribes?
6. Which group of Native Americans refused to go west?
7. What did the U.S. government do to make the Creeks move west?
8. Which two tribes fought the hardest to keep their homes?
9. How did the Seminoles fight the U.S.?
10. How did the Cherokee fight the U.S.?
11. Where were the Cherokee of Georgia forced to march?
12. What do we now call this march that the Cherokee were forced to make to the Oklahoma Territory?

Nat Turner’s Revolt

1. What group of people had even less freedom than the Cherokee Indians?
2. Planters in the south heard stories that made them nervous. What were these stories about?
3. What did the white preachers tell the slaves on Sundays?
4. What did the slaves hear at their own church services?
5. What did Thomas Moore think that his slave Nat Turner was preaching about?
6. What was Nat Turner actually preaching about?
7. What “sign” did Nat Turner see that led him to believe that it was time to break free?
8. What did Nat Turner and his men decide to do when they met whites?
9. Why did Turner’s men fail to ride into Jerusalem, Virginia?
10. What happened when Turner’s men were captured?
11. Who finally found Nat Turner?
12. How do we know about Nat Turner’s side of the story?
13. What happened to the slaves as a result of Turner’s rebellion?