DO NOW: COPY CIVIL WAR VOCABULARY

• DARK HORSE• JOINT

RESOLUTION• POPULAR

SOVEREIGNTY• PLATFORM• SECESSION• AUCTION• FUGITIVE

• CONSCRIPTION• BLOCKADE• BOUNTY• GREENBACK• MARTIAL LAW• HABEAS CORPUS• FORAGE• CONDUCTOR

Do Now: Take out Vocabulary HW1. Name the five branches of the US military.

2. What war ended on November 11th, 1918?

3. Name four wars that the US has fought in.

4. What medal is awarded to soldiers wounded or killed in the line of duty?

5. What is the highest honor (medal) that can be awarded to a soldier?

DO NOW: TAKE OUT VOCABULARY HOMEWORK

MAKE AS MANY WORDS

AS YOU CAN FROM: SESAME STREET FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY

MINIMUM NUMBER OF WORDS IS 20

GEORGE WASHINGTON

• 1ST PRESIDENT• AMERICA’S FIRST

MILLIONAIRE• HAD ONLY ONE OF

HIS OWN TEETH REMAINING WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT

• SOME WANTED TO CALL HIM “KING”

• UNANIMOUS DECISION

JOHN ADAMS

• 2ND PRESIDENT

• SERVED ONLY ONE TERM

• FIRST PRESIDENT TO LIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE

• ONE OF ONLY TWO PRESIDENTS TO SIGN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

THOMAS JEFFERSON• 3RD PRESIDENT• LOUISIANA PURCHASE

– DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE UNITED STATES

• LEWIS & CLARK GAVE BEARS TO TJ WHO LEFT THEM IN CAGES ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN

• INVENTED THE HANGER• SALLY HEMINGS

JAMES MADISON

• 4TH PRESIDENT

• WAR OF 1812

• DOLLEY MADISON

• BARELY WEIGHED 100 POUNDS

• 5’4” – SHORTEST PRESIDENT

• FIRST PRESIDENT TO WEAR TROUSERS

JAMES MONROE

• 5TH PRESIDENT• MONROE

DOCTRINE• FIRST WHITE

HOUSE WEDDING FOR MONROE’S DAUGHTER

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

• 6TH PRESIDENT• FIRST SON OF A

PRESIDENT TO BE ELECTED

• LIKED TO GO SKINNY DIPPING ON WARM DAYS IN THE POTOMAC RIVER

• AMISTAD• ONLY FORMER

PRESIDENT TO SERVE AS REPRESENTATIVE

ANDREW JACKSON

• 7TH PRESIDENT• HERO OF THE BATTLE

OF NEW ORLEANS – WAR OF 1812

• INAUGURATION PARTY HAD A KEG THROWN THROUGH THE WHITE HOUSE WINDOW

• KILLED A MAN IN A DUEL

• ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

MARTIN VAN BUREN

• 8TH PRESIDENT• FIRST PRESIDENT

TO BE BORN IN THE UNITED STATES

• THE TERM “OK” BECAME POPULAR AFTER HIS TERM

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

• 9TH PRESIDENT• FIRST TO DIE IN

OFFICE• SHORTEST TERM

IN HISTORY– 31 DAYS

• THE BEGINNING OF THE ZERO YEAR CURSE

JOHN TYLER

• 10TH PRESIDENT• FATHERED 15

CHILDREN WITH TWO WIVES

• HE WAS 70 WHEN HIS 15TH CHILD WAS BORN

JAMES POLK

• 11TH PRESIDENT

• DARK HORSE CANDIDATE

• BORING DIDN’T ALLOW MUSIC, DANCING, OR GAMES IN THE WHITE HOUSE

• FIRST ANNUAL THANKGIVING DINNER

ZACHARY TAYLOR

• 12TH PRESIDENT• 2ND PRESIDENT TO DIE

IN OFFICE• FAVORITE SANDWICH

WAS HAM, EGG, AND CHEESE AND TODAY WE CALL IT “TAYLOR” HAM

• AUTOPSY PROVED HE HAD A HEART ATTACK AND NOT POISONED AS SOME BELIEVED

MILLARD FILLMORE

• 13TH PRESIDENT• MARRIED HIS

FORMER TEACHER SHE WAS 21 AND HE WAS 19

FRANKLIN PIERCE

• 14TH PRESIDENT• CONSIDERED AT

THIS TIME TO BE THE BEST LOOKING PRESIDENT EVER

• FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE

JAMES BUCHANAN

• 15TH PRESIDENT• ONLY BACHELOR

TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT

• DESPITE BEING ENGAGED MANY QUESTIONED HIS SEXUAL PREFERENCE

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• 16TH PRESIDENT• TALLEST

PRESIDENT IN HISTORY

• FIRST TO WEAR A BEARD

• FIRST TO BE ASSASSINATED IN OFFICE