For the Week of April 12

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Read chapters 5 and 6 of Story of the World.

Answer these questions:

Chapter Five

South Against North

1. In 1861, what did seven of the United States announce?
2. What country would they form instead?
3. What were the seven states?
4. Where was the military base Fort Sumter?
5. What happened at Fort Sumpter?
6. How did Abraham Lincoln respond?
7. After the declaration of war, what four states joined the Confederacy?
8. Which five states remained neutral?
9. In 1860, who was allowed to decide whether slavery was legal?
10. Why did tobacco and cotton growers rely on slaves?
11. Did Northern states rely on farming?
12. What did Southern and Northern states argue over, when new states began to join the USA? Why?
13. Was Lincoln for or against slavery?
14. When a state “secedes,” what does it do?
15. What were the United States soldiers called, and what color uniform did they wear?
16. What color did the Confederates wear?
17. When the war began to grow difficult whom did Lincoln invite to lead his army?
18. Who became Lincoln’s general instead?
19. Who was the general of the Confederate army?
20. When was the Emancipation Proclamation made?
21. What did is say? Was it effective?
22. Why was the Battle of Gettysburg so dreadful?
23. Why didi Robert E. Lee decide to surrender?
24. Where di the surrender take place?
25. What are the beginning and ending years of the Civil War?

After the Civil War

1. What did Abraham Lincoln dream in his nightmare?
2. What theater did Lincoln and his wife attend on April 14?
3. Why wasn’t Lincoln’s private box guarded during the play?
4. Why did John Wilkes Booth feel guilty?
5. After he shot Lincoln, what did Booth do? What happened to him?
6. Where did Booth ride?
7. What happened to Lincoln after he was shot?
8. Where was Booth discovered?
9. What happened to him>
10. What condition was the United States in after Lincoln’s assassination?
11. What did the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution say?
12. What were the years after the Civil War called?
13. Did the government of the United States help the freed slaves?
14. Were ex-slaves well off during the Reconstruction?

Chapter Six

Paraguay and the Triple Alliance

1. Between what two countries did Paraguay lie?
2. What country did Francisco Solano open admire?
3. Who were creoles?
4. What other two groups of people lived in the South American countries that had once been Spanish colonies?
5. Did these three different groups cooperate with each other?
6. What country became a center of trouble just two years after Francisco Solano Lopez came to power in Paraguay?
7. Why did Brazil help General Flores get control of Uruguay?
8. Why did Brazil’s actions make Lopez angry?
9. Why did Lopez then decide to invade Argentina?
10. What three countries belonged to the Triple Alliance which fought against Lopez and Paraguay?
11. In the sea battle between Brazil and Paraguay, which country won? What was the result of this victory?
12. How many years did the Paraguayan army resist the invasion of the Triple Alliance
13. What city fell to the Triple Alliance in 1869?
14. Why did people begin to think that Lopez had gone mad?
15. After Lopez was killed, what happened to the land of Paraguay?
16. What two different ways do people of Paraguay remember Lopez?

The Dominion of Canada

1. What two countries settled the northern reaches of North America?
2. Which country won the fight to control all of the northern colonies?
3. What were the two parts of Canada called?
4. What languages did the people of Lower and Upper Canada speak?
5. What did Canadians want Great Britain to let them do?
6. What did Louis Joseph Papineau want the English governor of Lower Canada to do?
7. What were Papineau’s followers called?
8. How did French Canadians respond to Papineau’s speeches?
9. When the Patriotes set up headquarters at St. Denis what happened next?
10. Why did William Lyon Mackenzie think that this would be a good chance for Upper Canadians to rebel?
11. Where did both Mackenzie and Papineau flee?
12. What report did the Earl of Durham make on the Canadian revolt?
13. What did the new “lieutenant governors” of Canada do?
14. Who still had the final say in Canada?
15. What new thing happened in Nova Scotia?
16. What was the name of the big Assembly that finally gained the power to govern all of Canada?
17. Many of the provinces wanted to join in to a “federation.” What three things would this federation have of its own?
18. Why did many Canadians want to protect the western territories of Canada?
19. What four provinces finally joined together in the Dominion of Canada?
20. What three provinces joined the Dominion by 1900?
21. Who was the queen of Canada?
22. Who really governed Canada?

Read chapters 13-17 of Bark of the Bog Owl. 

Answer these questions:

Ch. 13

1. Who captured Aidan?
2. Describe the feechiefolk. 
3. Why did Rabbo and Janko capture Aidan?
4. What stopped Janko and Rabbo from fighting?
   

Ch. 14

1. What saves Aidan from the feechie punishment?
2. What law helps Aidan live?
3. What is Aidan declared to be?

Ch. 15

1. How do the feechifolk fish?
2. What are the dangers of this kind of fishing? 
3. Who caught the biggest catfish for the feast? 

Ch. 16

1. How was the feechie feast different from the feast at Tambluff Castle?
2. What was the highlight of the feechie feast’s entertainment?
3. What food was served last the feechie feast? 
4. What are the rights and privileges of a feechie friend?
5. What is Aidan’t feechie name?
6. Why do the feechie slather soupy mud all over themselves?
7. What is the feechie mark?

Ch. 17

1. How do feechie travel?
2. What is the old feechie lore prophecy that Dobro shares with Aidan?
3. Why did the battle camp feel strange?