Civil rights movement and war

    I am blogging about the resistance to the civil rights movement and about the Civil war. It will be about the people who did not like civil rights and were racist. It will be about how slaves got their freedom and how they were treated after they got their freedom.


 Black people were slaves until 1865 when the civil war occurred from 1861-1865. It started when Abraham Lincoln got elected in to the presidency. Abraham Lincoln passed a bill saying when a slave gets in to a free state they can stay there. When the southern states got mad that they were loosing their slaves they seceded from the U.S. Seceding means to leave something, so they left the U.S.
  The battle went on for four years and was the bloodiest battle that happened in U.S. history. The North was called the Union and the South was called the Confederacy. The Union had almost twice as much men as the Confederacy and had more weapons, ammo and transportation than them. The Union won in 1865 when they captured Atlanta. 

  First I am talking about the worst people that were against civil rights and they are the Ku Klux Klan.  They would torture, tease and sometimes kill blacks. It began with six southern veterans coming together in a town and making a group. They would torture old slaves and any blacks because they were mad they lost their slaves. The leader was called the Grand Cyclops and others were called ghouls. They would do horrible things like hang blacks, shoot at black peoples houses and cars, kidnap and start riots. The Klan died out around 1950.





 Next, I am blogging about Ruby Bridges. She was the first black to go to an all whites school. Her dad did not want her to go to an all white school because she could be teased at school. Her Mom wanted her to go to an all whites school because she had a hard life and she wanted her daughter to have a better one.
  Ruby was threatened to be poisoned if she went back to school. Her dad lost his job because his boss did not like his child going to an all white school. U.S. Marshals had to walk her to and from school to protect her from the people who wanted to kill her. Ruby started to see a child psychiatrist after winter break.




  Blacks could still not vote after the civil war. Blacks actually had less opportunity's after the civil war. The people that were in the southern states made governments so the blacks could not vote. It was Andrew Johnson that made it so blacks could not be in the convention to rewrite the constitution. In 1866 angry congress people made a civil rights bill that said an American citizen is someone born in the U.S. except Native Americans. President Johnson tried to get the bill cancelled, but it was passed anyway. When that bill was passed blacks  could be citizens of the U.S. 




  I learned on the field trip that 1/3 of the confederates died. I learned that 1/6 of the Union died. The main cause of death was       infection. During the civil war people did not have good personal hygiene. Some soldiers ran away from the battle to see their families. Atlanta had a lot of rail road tracks which made it good for the heart of the Confederacy.


  I liked that the museum made it so that you do interactive stuff. They make it so you have fun while you are learning. The museum made time lines for what happened through the years.They made it so you understood both point of views. 
   
 
   
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The Inner Planets

  This blog is on the inner planets. I will blog about what do the inner planets have in common, what hind of atmospheres they have, why Venus is hotter than Mercury and why life exists on Earth, but not on any other planet.

  The inner planets are similar because they all have rocky surfaces. They are sometimes called the terrestrial planets because of their rocky surfaces. They are all made of rock and metal. The planets have different sizes and atmospheres.

  Next, I am blogging about the inner planets atmospheres. Mercury has no atmosphere what-so-ever. Venus has an atmosphere made 97% of carbon dioxide. The gravitational pull on Venus is almost 100 times stronger than Earth. If someone stood on Venus they would probably be crushed in a few minutes. Earth's  atmosphere has multiple types of gases and a small amount of water vapor. Earth's location in the solar system makes water able to exist. Mars' atmosphere is made up of 95% carbon

dioxide and is a lot thinner than Earth's. Mars' temperatures can range from about 20°C  to -125°C.







  Now time to talk about the next topic. Venus is hotter than mercury because of its atmosphere. You might say why isn't mercury hotter because of its atmosphere, well guess what it does not even have an atmosphere. Venus has an increased amount of carbon dioxide in it's atmosphere, so it has the green house effect. The green house effect is where the atmosphere keeps the heat from the sun in.

 There is life on Earth because Earth is AWESOME. Earth is the only planet that we know of right now that is sustainable for life. The reason life exists on Earth is because the atmosphere, the moderate temperature, there is water and the magnetic field. The Earth's crust is constantly being formed. Since Earth has the greenhouse effect it keeps the temperature livable.

                                                                                                          

Space the journey in to the unknown

   Today I am blogging about space. I am going to explain what some of the objects are in space, what a planet is, what are some characteristics of the inner and outer planets, what a dwarf planet is and a lot more.


  First of all we live in the milky way, the sun is the center of our solar system and we live on planet Earth. We now count only eight planets in our solar system. We now consider Pluto as a dwarf planet because it is smaller than the objects that rotate around it.

  Here is a list of the planets in our solar system by location closest to the sun.

1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth!
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus
8. Neptune

  Planets are objects that orbit the sun, have almost a complete spherical shape and have a mass bigger than the things that orbit around it. Pluto is a Dwarf Planet because it has less mass than what is close to its orbit. Planets have a bigger mass than anything else orbiting it.





 The inner planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Being an inner planet means that they are mostly made of solid rock. These planets are smaller than the outer planets. The outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Outer planets are called the gas giants. They are mainly made of gases like helium and hydrogen.




 A planets orbit is not completely circular. It is shaped like an oval. If it was completely circular the temperature would not change a lot. Planets orbit around the sun counter-clockwise. You know how a clock goes right, well the planets go the opposite way. Planets change their speed because the planets get closer to the sun. When the planets get closer to the sun the gravitational pull of the sun makes them go faster.



 Asteroids are pieces of rocks floating in space. There are millions of asteroids floating around the sun. There is a big asteroid belt between the inner and outer planets. It is between Mars and Jupiter. Comets are made up of dust gas and ice and move around the sun. There is about one-trillion comets orbiting around the sun.






  The period of revolution is how long it takes for a planet to rotate around the sun. The period of rotation is how long a planet takes to spin on its axis. In space meters and kilometers are to small of measurements so astronomers use astronomical units. They use astronomical units to see how far things are away from the sun.






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