Homework for the week of February 1

1. Read No Summit Out Of Sight, chapters 10-12. Be ready to talk about the next mountains on Friday.

2. Write in your mindfulness journal, page 26. 

3. Write a complex sentence, a sentence with an adjective clause, and a sentence with a participial phrase about the Industrial Revolution. You could mention what Charles Dickens and William Wordsworth thought about it and the positives and negatives of the changes.

4. Read The Story of the World Chapters 31-32. Answer the following questions.

Chapter 31

The World of the Factories

1. How did the different members in a weavers family help out with the family’s work in the days when people worked in their homes?
2. Thirty years later, what had taken the place of the cottages and gardens?
3. How did steam power help to make the production of cloth faster?
4. Which was cheaper—factory-made cloth or hand-made cloth?
5. Weavers who worked at home could no longer get people to buy their cloth. What new job were they forced to take?
6. What was one way that work in factories differed from work in the home?
7. A weaver working at home made money when he sold his goods. How did a factory worker make money?
8. What did an “overseer” do?
9. How were the working conditions of the factory difficult for the children who worked there?
10. Who protested against the laws that the British government made to improve factory working conditions?

The Luddites

1. What kind of workers were pushed out of jobs with the rise of factories?
2. Why did Alexander Hamilton think that factories were good for the country?
3. What did some workers begin to do in order to protest against the factories?
4. What was the name of the man who led the underground army that opposed the rise of factories?
5. What was the name of the group that followed General Ludd?
6. What were the Luddites angry about?
7. What leader in the United States agreed with the Luddites?
8. What kind of men disagreed with Jefferson and thought factories should be a part of the United States?
9. Near what two cities in the United States were factories built?
10. What was one of the problems with these “worker settlements”

Chapter 32

Lewis and Clark Map the West

1. How many states were originally in the United Sates?
2. The states had divided the land east of the Mississippi into territories. What were the names of these three territories?
3. When could a territory join the United States?
4. What two people did Jefferson hire to explore the land west of the Mississippi River?
5. What was one early obstacle that Lewis and Clark faced on their journey west?
6. With what tribe did Lewis and Clark decide to build their winter camp?
7. What did Charbonneau and Sacagawea offer to do to help Lewis and Clark?
8. Sacagawea brought an extra person with her when the expedition left. Wh o was this person?
9. How was the bear Lewis shot in the west different from the bears he was accustomed to seeing in the east?
10. What is the Continental Divide? 
11. What did Lewis hope to buy from the Shoshone Indians that would help him with the journey?
12. What happened during the meeting that included Sacagawea and the chief of the Shoshone tribe?
13. What did Lewis an dClark give to the tribe in exchange for horses?
14. What was one difficulty that the expedition faced as it made its way across the mountains?
15. Lewis and Clark made it across the Continental Divide. They eventually found what large body of water?
16. What did Lewis and Clark do that would help people who wanted to head west in the future?

Tecumseh’s Resistance

1. How did Native American tribes react to white settlers moving farther west?
2. What was the name of the Shawnee Indian who led raids against white towns and rots in the Northwest Territory?
3. Tecumseh was angered that some of his fellow Native Americans were beginning to think like the white settlers. What was one way the two groups were beginning to think alike?
4. Who was “the Prophet”?
5. What are two things that the Prophet preached to the Native Americans?
6. In which territory did Tecumseh and the Prophet settle?
7. What did Tecumseh want the Native American tribes to do?
8. What did William Henry Harrison want to do when he invited several chiefs to a meeting at Fort Wayne, Indiana? 
9. Harrison wanted to take the Prophet to Washington, D.C. What did Tecumseh do instead?
10. William Henry Harrison attacked Prophetstown before Tecumseh could return. What did the Prophet tell his warriors so that they would attack Harrison’s men? 
11. What did Tecumseh find upon his return to Prophetstown?