Artifact 1
Neil, Jennifer, Konig
Exploring Carnegie Hall
The Carnegie Hall is a historical concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by Andrew Carnegie, this beautiful and awe-inspiring piece of architecture still remains today as one of the world's most prestigious venues for both classical and popular music. Go back in time and visit the Carnegie Hall when it was first created, and earn the privilege of enjoying music from the maestro Walter Damrosch and the renowned composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky!
Exploring Iconic Places: The Statue of Liberty
Completed on October 28, 1986, the Statue of Liberty is a gigantic statue towering over 300 feet height located in Liberty Island, New York, was and still is one of the most iconic destinations in America. The statue was the product of a joint effort between the American and the French, and depicts Lady Liberty, a woman holding a torch in her right, and a tablet inscribed with the date JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776), the date of American independence from the British Empire. Modeled after the Roman goddess Liberta, this magnificent statue is an everlasting symbol of liberty and America as a nation. Visit the Statue of Liberty, and experience for your self the pride, joys, and tears Americans of the 1800s went through to create this beautiful structure!
Living in the Flathead Indian Reservation
Promontory Point
Taking the grand Transcontinental Railroad to the West is surely a great distance to cover, even being in a train. Why not take a quick break on the County of Box Elder, Utah and learn some more about the Transcontinental Railroad. The County of Box Elder holds the Promontory Point,a site of great celebration where the first Transcontinental Railroad in the world meet on May 10, 1869, at noon. From the East, the Union Pacific, and from the Central Pacific from the West. This site was very important to celebrate the enormous accomplishment of completing the railroad that connected both ends of the United States. Going through about 1,100 miles, from Omaha, Nebraska to the County of Box Elder, Utah, you can visit the Promontory Point and learn more about the greatness of this grand railroad and specially its last tie, laid and hammered together with a bronze and gold spike also called The Last Spikes. We will also go through some important points as The Big Trestle, a bridge built by the Union Pacific. We will also visit another important point, The Big Fill, another bridge constructed by the Central Pacific on 1869, 5 days before The Last Spikes.
The trip itself takes about three days to get to Box Elder, Utah and two more days until we reach Sacramento, California. Food and drinks will be served by our dinning cars until the final destination. All passenger please embark Train #2 with luggage and tickets at 08:00AM.
SCHEDULE
December 1, 1880
Tickets: Omaha to Sacramento – Train #2 – 08:00AM
First Class: $111 (Current Money $1489)
Second Class: $80 (Current Money $1073)
Third Class: $40 (Current Money $536)
December 3,1880
Arrival at The Big Trestle, disembark – The Big Trestle – 1 hour break
December 3, 1880
Arrival at Promontory Point, disembark – The Last Spikes – 1 hour break
December 3, 1880
Arrival at The Big Fill, disembark – The Big Fill – 1 hour break
December 5, 1880
Arrival at Sacramento – 01:00PM
The trip itself takes about three days to get to Box Elder, Utah and two more days until we reach Sacramento, California. Food and drinks will be served by our dinning cars until the final destination. All passenger please embark Train #2 with luggage and tickets at 08:00AM.
SCHEDULE
December 1, 1880
Tickets: Omaha to Sacramento – Train #2 – 08:00AM
First Class: $111 (Current Money $1489)
Second Class: $80 (Current Money $1073)
Third Class: $40 (Current Money $536)
December 3,1880
Arrival at The Big Trestle, disembark – The Big Trestle – 1 hour break
December 3, 1880
Arrival at Promontory Point, disembark – The Last Spikes – 1 hour break
December 3, 1880
Arrival at The Big Fill, disembark – The Big Fill – 1 hour break
December 5, 1880
Arrival at Sacramento – 01:00PM
Living in St. Louis
Live for a short while and relax in St. Louis, a beautiful and cozy town dubbed the "Gateway to the West"! This will be one of the most unique parts of the trip, as no other travel agencies allow you to experience the daily life of a common American citizen in the 1800s!
Artifact 2 - Railroad Timeline
http://prezi.com/zk07lgu0aiak/railroad-timeline/
1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to? In what ways?
The Notion of Frontier because the timeline shows how the railroads helped the population move toward the west of the United States and fulfill their Manifest Destiny.
b) Which other main topics does it also relate to? Invention, Ingenuity, and Entrepreneurship
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
I chose doing a timeline because it is the best way to describe the discovery of a new technology, its development, and its use and I spent 1 hour.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about how the invention developed during some years and how it was used and where, for example, it was mainly used in large cities and toward the west where population was constantly moving to.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas? Why, or why not?
This Artifact reflects on a good work.
5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion: a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio - 5
b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment - 5
c) Impact on your learning - 5
d) Level of creativity and originality - 5
I accidentally added some railroad facts so I had to delete them.
Artifact 3 - Google Tour
1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to? In what ways?
Creation of the Modern Nation-State because the Google tour shows the creation of a modern country, by first exploring its aspects like Lewis and Clark did when crossing the country.
b) Which other main topics does it also relate to?
The Notion of Frontier.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
This Artifact was a teachers choice and I spent 1 hour.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned the routes that Lewis and Clark took to get to the West.
The Notion of Frontier.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
This Artifact was a teachers choice and I spent 1 hour.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned the routes that Lewis and Clark took to get to the West.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas? Why, or why not?
This Artifact reflects on a good work.
5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:
a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio - 5
b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment - 5
c) Impact on your learning - 5
d) Level of creativity and originality - 5
6. Any additional comments.
It was a little hard to make routes stay on Google Earth.
Artifact 5 - OPVL - Buffalo Hunt, 1846
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/buffalo.htm
Origin
This article was created by Francis Parkman in 1846. He went to the West of America after graduating from Harvard Law School to record about Native American tribes, their natural habitat and any fauna and flora. He explored the plains between the Mississippi and the Rockies Mountain and later on published his journal which launched Parkman`s career as one of 19th century America`s most important historians.
Purpose
This article is describing two modes of hunting, ``running`` and ``approaching.`` His intentions were to write this article is to show and record how the buffalo hunting was done. ``Running`` is the mode that the hunter chases the buffalo while riding a horse and shoots it down. This was considered one of the most dangerous sport ever invented at that time. If you fell, you would probably die ran over by buffalo. The ``approaching`` method is when the hunter approaches the buffalo slowly and shoot the buffalo. It is not as dangerous as ``running`` and your life or your horses life would not be in danger.
Value:
I can tell that the author is a observant of nature and how it works. How the hunter hunts its prey like the natives hunting buffaloes and the techniques they use. The author is mainly giving information about the buffalo hunt during the 19th century. He does not take `side` of anything, its just an informative article.
Limitation:
This article does not talk about how Native Americans used to hunt when there was no guns, did they use arrows? I know a way that they scared the buffaloes off a cliff, so death was immediate and not so dangerous as wounding it with arrows because 1 arrow indeed would not kill a buffalo. I don`t think there is any indirect meaning to anyone, its just a log about the buffalo hunt and no more.
1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to? In what ways?
Beginnings of Globalization through Imperialism because if it was not the American Settlers, the Native Americans would not have guns or horses to make the buffalo hunt less dangerous with no technology.
b) Which other main topics does it also relate to?
Invention, Ingenuity, and Entrepreneurship2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
I chose a buffalo related artifact because I was curious to know what really happened to them and I spent 1 and a half
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about some ways to hunt buffaloes and how people in the 19th century managed to hunt them.
I chose a buffalo related artifact because I was curious to know what really happened to them and I spent 1 and a half
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about some ways to hunt buffaloes and how people in the 19th century managed to hunt them.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas? Why, or why not?
This Artifact reflects on a good work.
5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:
a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio - 5
b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment - 3
c) Impact on your learning - 5
d) Level of creativity and originality - 3
6. Any additional comments.
Buffaloes are really tough animals. . .
Artifact 6
1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to? In what ways?
Race Relations, The Abolition of Slavery, Segregation, and Anti-Semitism because it shows the relationship between the native Americans and the American settlers.
b) Which other main topics does it also relate to?
The Notion of Frontier.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
I chose this idea page because I found very interesting to talk about the relationship between natives and settlers because it has always been a problem and I spent 30 minutes.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about the relationship between both different cultures and how did they interact with one another.
The Notion of Frontier.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
I chose this idea page because I found very interesting to talk about the relationship between natives and settlers because it has always been a problem and I spent 30 minutes.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about the relationship between both different cultures and how did they interact with one another.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas? Why, or why not?
This Artifact reflects on a good work.
5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:
a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio - 5
b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment - 5
c) Impact on your learning - 5
d) Level of creativity and originality - 5
6. Any additional comments.
My font was maybe too small.
Artifact 7 - Battle of Gettysburg
Note: All objects in the Sketch were downloaded
1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to? In what ways?
Invention, Ingenuity, and Entrepreneurship because the North was meant to loose, because of their better machinery as 15 rounded rifles and better designed cannons.
b) Which other main topics does it also relate to?
The Rise and Fall of Empires
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
I chose the Battle of Gettysburg because it was a really important battle specially after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about how the battles in the Civil War where confronted, formally, which is not a very intelligent way of fighting.
The Rise and Fall of Empires
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
I chose the Battle of Gettysburg because it was a really important battle specially after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about how the battles in the Civil War where confronted, formally, which is not a very intelligent way of fighting.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas? Why, or why not?
This Artifact reflects on a good work.
5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:
a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio - 5
b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment - 5
c) Impact on your learning - 5
d) Level of creativity and originality - 5
6. Any additional comments.
None.
Artifact 8 - Poems of Westward Expansion
Native American Vision: The Black Beast
There goes the ferocious beast,
rumbling our land like the gods when angry,
with its overwhelming roars,
terrorizing our women and children.
Oh, Flying Head, what have we done?
Then we knew a battle must be fought,
against the black beast to never then horrify us,
and bring tranquility back to our land.
American Vision: Massacre
The savage now should perish,
for what it has done,
derailed our trains,
wounded our men,
scalped their heads,
and committed arson upon them alive.
1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to? In what ways?
The Human Mind because it shows how was the human minds of Native Americans and American Settlers thought about one another, the Natives thought the Americans as destroyers of their land. However the American Settlers thought the Natives were just savages that needed to be converted.
b) Which other main topics does it also relate to?
The Notion of Frontier.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
I chose this poem because I liked to right about the relationship between both and I spent 1 hour.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about the relationship between both different cultures and how did they interact with one another, which was not very good, many Natives were pushed into reserves.
The Notion of Frontier.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
I chose this poem because I liked to right about the relationship between both and I spent 1 hour.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about the relationship between both different cultures and how did they interact with one another, which was not very good, many Natives were pushed into reserves.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas? Why, or why not?
This Artifact reflects on a good work.
5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:
a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio - 5
b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment - 5
c) Impact on your learning - 5
d) Level of creativity and originality - 5
6. Any additional comments.
None.
Artifact 9 - Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Territory was purchased from France by a America, a treaty was signed on April 30, 1803. The land was 2 mil sq km extending from Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains. The total cost of the territory was of 60 mil francs, about $15 mil. The purchase of the land doubled America`s size , all thanks to President Thomas Jefferson who sent James Monroe and his companion to negotiate the purchase with Napoleon. At first, the American`s just wanted s small portion of Louisiana or just free access through the Mississippi. Napoleon, the emperor of France sold the Louisiana Purchase to have funds to recover the future heart of his empire, Hispaniola, Haiti and some wars fought in Europe. After years of discovery and exploration, today, the Louisiana Territory covers the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana.
1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to? In what ways?
The Balance of Power: Rise and Fall of Empires because it shows the incline of the French Empire to give up such amount of land because of a crisis of its original territory.
b) Which other main topics does it also relate to?
Human Movement and Migration.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
I chose this artifact to be an essay about the Louisiana Purchase because it resembles a great event of the American history.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about how America gained so much territory until its original size today and how they managed to maintain it.
Human Movement and Migration.
2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
I chose this artifact to be an essay about the Louisiana Purchase because it resembles a great event of the American history.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about how America gained so much territory until its original size today and how they managed to maintain it.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas? Why, or why not?
This Artifact reflects on a good work.
5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:
a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio - 5
b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment - 3
c) Impact on your learning - 5
d) Level of creativity and originality - 5
6. Any additional comments.
None.
Artifact 10 - Sullivan Ballou's Letter
Mary Jane Demus
nobember the 8th 1863
Mi Dear Wife
I tak this optuity to in form you that i am Well at present and hopein that thes fu lynes ma finde you in the same state of healt i recev yor letter on the 5th of this month and i Was verry glad to hear frum you all and i hapey to hear that you have got such good healt since i left hom but i am a frad that you ar going to heirt yor selfe Warking i doant thig that you ot to go out in the feald to husk Corn or dow eney such Wark i doan thig nothing of you Working at Mr paterson som times but i doant Want to hear of you going in the feald to eney more and you nead mind Whot you her all the tock that his son Can tock Wont Hirt you i he think that i Wont get home son but i Wod a Cum home this time but i thot We Will get ar money in a fu days and as son as We get it i Will be at home to stay a Will and i have oney got a doller now but if you lok in the nex letter i Will send you som hom We have got a bout nity Dollre Cuming to us now and tell me how hold the thing fer you you [unclear: sed] [unclear: robsen] boys Whot [unclear: robson] Was it fer i Want to now give mi love to yor father and lysbeth and solomon harson and ant merrey harson and tell them to right to me Wants give mi love to all the frends
nothing mor at Present but still reman
yor Dear husben
David Demus to marrey Demes
Direct Mr David Demes
Hilton Head SC
54th Regt
massahusets
volintears
Sullivan Ballou's Letters Analysis: By Annie, Konig, Neil, and Jessica
We can tell that he didn’t get a very good education, perhaps not an education at all. This is obvious because he spelt his words according to the sounds he said them. We assume that the writer was on the side of the American union and that his wife was on the side of the confederacy. We can tell that this is most likely the case due to the fact that he was against working in the fields, despite the fact that his wife worked in the fields, ironically. He stated a few sentences regarding his dislike towards his wife having to work in the fields. From his writing, we can infer that his level of education was rather low, therefore, it is safe to assume that he had a simpler but harsher job of working on the fields, however, we are unsure. At the beginning of the letter, he says “I tak this optuity to in form you…”, from this, we can assume that he was going to war. He talks about his sons, or his “boys”, but doesn’t say much about them.
On November 23-25, 1863 the battle of Chattanooga was taking place. We could assume that the writer was preparing for the battle of Chattanooga while he was writing the letter on November 3, 1863. We could assume that a partial reason as to why he went to war is due to the fact that his family was in need of money. Another reason could be that he strongly supported the side of the Union, and like Sullivan Ballou, really supported his country.
The way he expresses his sentences and words tells us more about his relationship with his family, particularily his wife, rather than his wellbeing and happiness, though, we can assume that his family was financially deprived.
It seems that it was extremely important for the author to have received and written these letters at the time because, near the end of the letter, he states that he wishes that his relatives would write back to him.
1. a) Which main topic does the artifact relate to? In what ways?
Class Consciousness because it shows that women had to stay at home, not being able to fight for their country like men.
b) Which other main topics does it also relate to?
The Human Mind 2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
We chose to analyse this letter because it is a perspective from a mulatto soldier from the Civil War and we took about 1 hour.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about the different perspectives of soldiers in the Civil War, for example some fought for their country, others fought to raise money to their families.
The Human Mind 2. Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and/or processing it?
We chose to analyse this letter because it is a perspective from a mulatto soldier from the Civil War and we took about 1 hour.
3. What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?
I learned about the different perspectives of soldiers in the Civil War, for example some fought for their country, others fought to raise money to their families.
4. Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas? Why, or why not?
This Artifact reflects on a good work.
5. Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5(0 is neutral) for the following 4 criterion:
a) Impact on the quality of your Portfolio - 5
b) Impact on your level of happiness/enjoyment - 3
c) Impact on your learning - 5
d) Level of creativity and originality - 5
6. Any additional comments.
Group work gives great product!
