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Date of Birth: 27 April 1822 Date of Death: 23 July 1885 Place of Birth: Point Pleasant, Ohio
Marriage: 22 August 1848 Spouse: Julia Boggs Dent (1826-1902) Children: Three sons, one daughter Frederick Dent Grant (1850-1912); Ulysses Simpson Grant (1852-1929); Ellen Wrenshall Grant (1855-1922); Jesse Root Grant (1858-1934)
Occupation: Soldier, farmer, clerk Home: Galena, Illinois Religion: Methodist Political Party: Republican Nickname: "Hero of Appomattox"
Ulysses Simpson Grant was born in 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The next year his parents moved to Georgetown, Ohio. His father was in the leater business which Ulysses did not care for, but he did enjoy working on the farm due to the horses. By 11, Ulysses was using the plow. As a child, Ulysses enjoyed swimming, skating, sleighing, and travelling. When the news came that he had been appointed a cadet at West Point, the only reason he saw for going was that it gave him the chance to travel ! He enjoyed the steamboat ride to Pittsburgh and the canal boat ride to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Grant attended West Point as this was his father's desire, but he did not care for the military life.
Grant fought in the Mexican War under General Taylor in 1857. He entered Mexico City with General Scott. Up to this point, no foreign soldier had set foot in the "Halls of Montezuma" since the days of Cortez — 300 years before. Afterwards, Grant went to California, was made a captain, and resigned. He went into business near ST. Louis and was a clerk for his father at Galena. During the War Between the States, Ulysses enlisted and rose rapidly to the rank of major-genera. He captured Forts Henry and Donelson, fought a two days' battle at Pittsburg Landing and was made lieutenant-general after capturing Vicksburg.
After Grant's term of service was over as president, he toured around the world and was received with great honor by rulers and the citizens. Upon returning to New York, Grant wrote his memoirs. He died 23 July 1885 at Mount McGregor, near Saratoga, New York.
Quickie Questions: 1) Tell the story of Grant until he reached West Point. 2) What examples of obedience did Grant demonstrate. 3) What did Ulysses witness in the war with Mexico? 4) How old was President Grant when he died? 5) How old was Julia Boggs Dent when she died? 6) How old was Frederick Dent Grant when she died? 7) How old was Ulysses Simpson Grant (the son) when he died? 8) How old was Ellen Wrenshall Grant when she died? 9) How old was Jesse Root Grant when he died? 10) How many people were in President Grant's family? 12) How old was President Grant when he married? How old was Julia Boggs Dent when she married? 13) How old was President Grant and Julia Boggs Dent when Frederick Dent Grant (1850-1912); Ulysses Simpson Grant (1852-1929); Ellen Wrenshall Grant (1855-1922); Jesse Root Grant (1858-1934) were born? 14) Did any of President Grant and Julia Boggs Dent's children died before them? 15) How old were each of the children when they died?
Ulysses Simpson Grant's public service before presidency:
Republican Party convention was held in Chicago and nominated Grant unanimously. Grant won 26 out of 34 states. Virginia, Mississippi and Texas had no vote as they had not yet been readmitted to the Union. Horace Greeley, the man that named the party "republican," was nominated by Liberal Republicans. Unfortunately, Greeley joined so many minority causes that he was considered a crack-pot (e.g., he urged a socialist community with co-operative living known as Fourierism, dabbled in spiritualism, supported temperance, championed women's rights and worked for the New York Tribune which was noted for its encouragement of fads). Because of Greeley pushing fads, many did not consider him steady or dependable.
First Transcontinental Railroad — U.P & C.P. (1869) —
Building a railroad was hard work. It meant laying tracks, building bridges, recruiting a labor force, feeding and housing the workers, supplying construction materials, difficulties of weather/terrain/mountains/rivers/deserts were huge, big land and money grants from the government were required, etc.
Two months after President Grant was inaugurated, the last spike of a line railroad connecting the Atlantic coast with the Pacific was driven at Ogden, Utah, on 10 May 1869. The blows of the sledge-hammer which drove that spike — completing the greatest work of the kind in the world — were telegraphed, as they fell, throughout the United States.
Consequences of the Railroad —
1) Teas, spices and silks from China and the East Indies now took a little over a month since they were shipped by steamer to San Francsico and, then, by rail to the East. 2) Settlers could now reach the West efficiently, economically, and safely. 3) Unproductive land now became productive (Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, etc.) covered with grain fields and fruit orchards.
Tweed Ring — The Democratic Club of New York City was "Boss" William M Tweed, also known as the Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall. Thomas Nast drew cartoons in Harper's Weekly exposing the corruption and fraud of this gang robbing the city of millions. Nast drew a Tammany Tiger, the Democratic Donkey and the Republican Elephant. The Tweed Gang bribed city officials, the mayor, governor, state legislators, judges, newspapers, etc. Nast, the political cartoonist, was offered $500,000 to go to Europe to study art! (The Tweed Gang wanted Nast and his cartoons out of the United States). The Times was offered $5 million to stop publishing what the Tweed Gang was up to. Tweed fled to Spain who returned him for trial to New York City. Tweed died in a Ludlow Street Jail in 1878.
Panic of 1873 — A few years after the War Between the States, the country seemed to be rich, healthy and prosperous. However, debts began to fall due and prices of goods began to decline. The market had too many goods to sell. Workers organized demanding higher wages and called for strikes causing even more financial problems.
A very strong financial business failed and became bankrupt in 1873. American farmers and factory workers were suffering from the results of so many businesses failing in the United States and Europe. The 1877 railroad strike made the financial situation even worse. It took about six years for the economic depression to lift.
More reasons for the money problems were:
1) enormous debt resulting from the War Between the States, 2) reckless disregard for debt, 3) difficulties of men finding employment from the Federal and Confederate armies, 4) manufacturing firms made too many items flooding the market, 5) the great fire of Chicago in 1871 6) terrible forest fires in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota 7) 1872 fire in Boston
Weather Bureau (1870) — Congress established the Weather Bureau in 1870 with headquarters in Washington and branches in principal cities. The goal of the weather bureau was to give information of approaching storms and changes of weather. It proved to be the means of saving the country from heavy losses on land and sea.
"Alabama" Claims (also known as the "Geneva Tribunal") — England actively supported the Confederate States of American during the War Between the States. The United States wanted to recover damages from England. A five member international tribunal with representatives from Brazil, Italy, Switzerland, Britain and the United States was called in Geneva, Switzerland, to settle the matter.
Damage caused by the ships Alabama, Florida, and Shenandoah was tremendous. The tribunal said England was guilty for allowing the ships to be built in their shipyards. England paid "damages" determined by the tribunal resulting in the 1871 Treaty of Washington. The 1871 Treaty of Washington set a precedent of two major world countries agreeing to a peaceful arbitration to resolve issues.
United States: Locate the following places on a map, globe, and atlas on a map, globe, and atlas. .
Ohio, Washington,D.C., Illinois, California, New York, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, Utah, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Massachusetts
How far away are these places from where you live, approximately?
North America: Challenge: Locate the following places on a map, globe, and atlas. Point Pleasant (Ohio), Galena (Illinois), Georgetown (Ohio), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), Saratoga (New York), Omaha (Nebraska), San Francisco (California), the Rockies (mountains), the Sierras (mountains), Ogden (Utah), Chicago (Illinois), Boston (Massachusetts)
South America: Locate the following places on a map, globe, and atlas on a map, globe, and atlas.
Mexico, Brazil
South America Challenge: Locate the following places on a map, globe, and atlas.
Mexico City
Europe:
Locate the following places on a map, globe, and atlas on a map, globe, and atlas. Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Bulgaria and Spain
Europe Challenge: Locate Valentia Bay, Ireland
The East: Find China on a map, globe, and atlas. How far away is China from where you live?
Africa:
Locate the following places on a map, globe, and atlas on a map, globe, and atlas.
South Africa on a map, globe and atlas. How far away is Africa from where you live?
Bodies of Water: Locate the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean in relation to where you live on a map, globe, and atlas.
Weather: Take one of the Countries or States in the United States (listed above) and one European country and compare the weather with where you live for one week.
New 1870s Cooking Utensils — can opener with cutting wheel, four-tined silver fork (no longer use the knife to eat with) , square bottomed paper-bags, milking machines, glass milk bottles, orange crates, pressure cooking in food canning (1874), frozen meat shipments (1877), mechanical cream separator, porcelain rollers make roller-milling flour (wheat germ removal) standard practice, William Underwood first to register U.S. food trademark (Red Devil)
New 1870s Food Companies — Lipton, Pillsbury & Co., F. & J. Heinz, Quaker Mills, Hills Brothers Eve's Pudding Chop six large apples very fine, grate six ounces of stale bread, add six ounces of brown sugar, six ounces of currants, washed, picked, and sprinkled with flour. Mix all well together with six ounces of butter, and two tablespoonfuls of flour; beat six eggs very light, add these with a teaspoonful of cinnamon and half a nutmeg, grated. Boil for three hours. To be eaten with cream sauce.
Pound Cake — One pound of sugar One pound of flour One pound of butter (a light pound) One dozen eggs.
Sift and dry your flour, pound and sift your sugar; wash your butter till free from salt, then cream it well, gradually adding the sugar, and beating the mixture till very light, then beat your eggs (whites and yelks separate) to a stiff froth; add them gradually to the sugar and butter, alternately with the flour, by spoonfuls, till all the ingredients are thoroughly amalgamated. Flavor your cake with lemon or nutmeg. Add a wineglass of wine or brandy. Bake your cake in a slow oven, and do not suppose it is done till you can thrust a straw into it, and draw it out as dry as when it entered. If it has risen, and split on the top, and the split has become browned, it is apt to be done. Jointly, these two tests are reliable.
Hoe Cake — Moisten Indian meal with cold water and a little salt; knead your dough well, to make it light. Bake on a hoe or griddle over a moderate fire; turn it often, till well browned on both sides. If you like you can add a little lard or butter.
Chicken Soup — Clean and draw your chicken, wash it in several waters, then put it in a pot, with a large spoonful of rice; cover it, and let it boil; skim it carefully. When done, add a teacupful of new milk, a sprig of thyme, with a little pepper (either red or black, as you like) and salt.
England: Victoria is Queen (1837-1901) from the House of Hanover 16 November 1869 Suez Canal opens 1871: Stanley meets Livingston in African wilderness at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika's shore 1 January 1877: Queen Victoria declared Empress of India England's Prime Ministers: William Gladstone (1868-1874) Benjamin Disraeli (1874-1880)
Bulgaria: Christians massacred by Turks in Bulgaria (1876)
Italy: 1870 — Papal States join Italy unification 1871 — Rome made capital of Italy
France: 1870-71 — Franco-Prussian War
Germany: 1871 — Unification of Germany with Kaiser William I as German emperor
1875: multiple telegraphy (Alexander Graham Bell /1875)
1876: telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell (who was born in Scotland) Sir Henry Stanley traces the River Congo (Zaire)
1877: bacteria identified (1877) Edison invents phonograph (1877)
Books —
G.A. Henty — See: PrestonSpeed Publications, 51 Ridge Road, Mill Hall, PA 17751
1870 — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
1871 — Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
1875 — The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
1877 — Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Music —
1870 — Tchaikovsky — Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture (1870)
1874 — Johann Strauss II — Die Fledermaus, operetta (1874)
1875 — Tchaikovsky — Piano Concerto No. 1, Op.23 (1875)
1876 — Wagner — Siegfried, opera (1876) Henry C. Work — Grandfather's Clock (1876)
1877 — Brahms — Symphony No. 2, Op. 75 (1877)
Art —
1871 — The Artist's Mother by James Whistler 1874 — The Falling Rocket by James Whistler
John Ruskin, art critic, denounces Whistler's The Falling Rocket. Whistler brings sues for libel
Major Artists — Whistler, Rossetti, Cezanne, Pissarro, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Homer, Rodin, Morris
The Young Tom Edison Mickey Rooney stars as the young boy who grew up to become America’s greatest inventor in this heartwarming, humorous biographical drama based on his early life. Young Tom is barred from school after he nearly burns down the schoolhouse, but finally earns the town’s respect when his ingenuity helps to prevent a tragedy. 1 hr 22 min
Edison, the Man Just as Thomas Edison lit up the darkened skies of New York City over one hundred years ago with the amazing electric light, Spencer Tracy ignites the screen with a powerful and touching portrayal of America's most beloved scientific wonder. Taut with suspense and brimming with humor, Edison, the Man is a brilliant tribute to a brilliant man. B&W
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) with Don Ameche and Loretta Young. Learn about Bell's determination and his invention of the telephone. Point out that Mr. Bell's wife and mother were both deaf and he helped Helen Keller.
Miracle Worker (1962) with Patty Duke and Anne Bancroff. Story about Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan (107 minutes)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1954) — (Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Capt. Nemo, Paul Lukas as Prof. Pierre Arronax/Narrator, Peter Lorre as Conseil) color, 127 minutes Alice in Wonderland (1966 / TV) — (Alan Bennett as Mouse, Peter Cook as Mad Hatter, John Gielgud as Mock Turtle, Anne-Marie Mallik as Alice, Leo McKern as Duchess, Malcolm Muggeridge as Gryphon, Michael Redgrave asCaterpillar, Peter Sellers as King of Hearts) color, 80 minutes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) — (Tommy Kelly as Tom Sawyer, Jackie Moran as Huckleberry Finn, Ann Gillis as Becky Thatcher, May Robson as Aunt Polly, Walter Brennan as Muff Potter ) color, 93 minutes Black Beauty (1946) — (Mona Freeman as Anne Wendon, Evelyn Ankers as Evelyn Carrington, Charles Evans as Squire Wendon, J.M. Kerrigan as John, Moyna MacGill as Mrs. Blake, Terry Kilburn as Joe, Tom Dillon as Skinner) black and white, 74 minutes
In Old Chicago (1937) — (Tyrone Power as Dion O'Leary, Alice Faye as Belle Fawcett, Don Ameche as Jack O'Leary, Alice Brady as Molly O'Leary, Andy Devine as Pickle Bixby, Brian Donlevy as Gil Warren, Phyllis Brooks as Ann Colby, Tom Brown as Bob O'Leary, Sidney Blackmer asGen. Phil Sheridan) black and white, 96 minutes — so did Mrs. O'Leary's cow start the 1871 Chicago fire?
They Died with Their Boots On (1941) — (Errol Flynn as Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer, Olivia de Havilland as Elizabeth 'Libby' Bacon Custer, Arthur Kennedy as Edward 'Ned' Sharp, Charley Grapewin as California Joe, Gene Lockhart as Samuel Bacon, Esq., Anthony Quinn as Chief Crazy Horse, Stanley Ridges as Maj. Gen. Romulus Taipe, John Litel as Maj. Gen. Philip H. 'Phil' Sheridan, Walter Hampden as William Sharp of Western Railroad & Trading Co., Sydney Greenstreet as Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott, Regis Toomey as Capt. Fitzhugh Lee, Joseph Crehan as President Ulysses S. Grant which was uncredited), black and white, 140 min
Victoria & Albert (2001) — (Victoria Hamilton as Princess/Queen Victoria, Jonathan Firth as Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, James Callis as Ernest, David Suchet as Baron Christian Friedrich 'Stocky' von Stockmar, M.D. , Diana Rigg as Baroness Lehzen, Patrick Malahide as Sir John Conroy, Roger Hammond as Duke of Coburg, Penelope Wilton as Queen Mother Princess Mary Louise Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Kent, Peter Ustinov as King William IV, Delena Kidd as Queen Adelaide, Jonathan Pryce as King Leopold I of Belgium, Nigel Hawthorne as Lord William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne) color, 200 minutes
Geronimo (1939) — (Preston Foster as Captain Starrett, Ellen Drew as Alice Hamilton, Andy Devine as Sneezer, William Henry as Lt. Steele, Ralph Morgan as General Steele, Gene Lockhart as Gillespie, Marjorie Gateson as Mrs. Steele, Kitty Kelly as Daisy Devine, Monte Blue as Interpreter, Addison Richards as Frederick Allison, Pierre Watkin as Col. White, Joseph Crehan as President Ulysses S. Grant, Chief Thundercloud as Geronimo) black and white, 89 min
Red Desert (1949) — (Don 'Red' Barry as Pecos Kid, Tom Neal as John Williams, Jack Holt as Deacon Smith, Margia Dean as Hazel Carter, Byron Foulger as Sparky Johnson, Joseph Crehan as President Ulysses S. Grant, John L. Casonas Horn or John Cason) black and white, 60 minutes
Union Pacific (1939) — (Barbara Stanwyck as Mollie Monahan, Joel McCrea as Capt. Jeff Butler, Joseph Crehan as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Anthony Quinn as Jack Cordray) black and white, 135 min
The Horse Soldiers (1959) — (John Wayne as Col. John Marlowe, Richard H. Cutting as Gen. William T. Sherman, Stan Jones as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant) color, 115 min
How the West Was Won (1962) — (Carroll Baker as Eve Prescott, Lee J. Cobb as Marshal Lou Ramsey, Henry Fonda as Jethro Stuart, Carolyn Jones as Julie Rawlings, Karl Malden as Zebulon Prescott, Gregory Peck as Cleve Van Valen, George Peppard as Zeb Rawlings, Robert Preston as Roger Morgan, Debbie Reynolds as Lillith Prescott, James Stewart as Linus Rawlings, Eli Wallach as Charlie Gant, John Wayne as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Harry Morgan as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant) color, 162 min
Operator 13 (1934) — (Marion Davies as Gail Loveless, aka Operator 13, Lucille 'Lucy', Anne Claybourne, Gary Cooper as Capt. Jack Gailliard, Jean Parker as Eleanor Shackleford, Fred Warren as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant) black and white, 85 min
Stanley and Livingstone (1939) — (Spencer Tracy as Henry M. Stanley, Nancy Kelly as Eve Kingsley, Richard Greene as Gareth Tyce, Walter Brennan as Jeff Slocum, Charles Coburn as Lord Tyce, Publisher London Globe ; Cedric Hardwicke as Dr. David Livingstone, Henry Hull as James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Henry Travers as John Kingsley, Miles Mander as Sir John Gresham ) The hardbitten newspaperman, Henry M. Stanley (Spencery Tracy) is sent to look for the missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Africa, who is unaware that others think he is lost! Spencer is just too great at the immortal question, "Dr. Livingston I presume?" Even though this important episode happened in 1871, during President Grant's administration, Livingstone was exploring the continent of Africa during the time of President Andrew Johnson. black and white, 101 min
Activities —
1) You are a representative from Italy that has been sent to Geneva, Switzerland, to help to calmly settle problems between the United States and Britain. The United States is angry that Britain helped the Confederate States of America and the United Kingdom is angry that the United States is attempting to tell England how they can and cannot spend money and who they can or cannot befriend. Without angering each country, how would you help them understand each other's concerns?
2) You have been hired by U.P. & C.P. railroad companies to advertise the importance of the first transcontinental railroad. These companies are already impressed with your idea about having the last spike (nail) driven into the railroad ties be gold and have given you a handsome bonus. They expect great things from you. Your advertisement will appear in all the major newspapers and magazines. The U.P. & C.P. railroad companies would also like you to design posters to be put up around the United States.
3) Theatres from New York to California have approached you to come up with a song talking about the difficulties of building a railroad. They would prefer the song to be humorous, but the option is up to you. The song may be sung to the tune of Take Me Out To the Ball Game, Home on the Range, Jingle Bells, or the Alphabet Song.
4) President Grant and Congress have assigned you to be the first head of the Weather Bureau. You have a very limited budget. Jot down at least ten (10) items that the Weather Bureau will need. Show how these items will help you meet the goal of informing the country of weather.
5) The Chicago Daily has hired you as a newspaper reporter. Your first assignment is to write a brief story of the great fire of 1871 in Chicago. Is it true that the fire was started by Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicking a kerosene lamp? How long will it take for Chicago to recover from this disaster? How much money will it cost? Find out the answers to these questions and more. You had better hurry or another reporter will get the scoop !
6) Congress has heard of the infamous Tammany Hall Democratic Club New York City "Boss" William M Tweed. They want you to put together a dossier of the alleged crimes of "Boss" Tweed. Be careful whilst putting this dossier together! "Boss" Tweed and his criminal gang do not take kindly to their terrible deeds being known! Why, we have even heard that the cartoonist, Nast, has been threatened! So ... shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !
7) I have a question for you. Is one of your favorite Scripture verses about letting your light shine and not hiding it under a bushel? Why do I ask? Your good work has gone before you ! In fact, the New York City Police Department would like you to make a "WANTED" poster for the infamous criminal "Boss" Tweed. "Boss" Tweed and his gang of evil doers. Be sure to write their crimes under the picture in the poster!
8) Poor Dr Bell ! He has been working very hard on his new invention the telephone. He has had a terrible time financing his project because money is tight due to the Panic of 1873. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell would like you to put together a proposal for him to submit to banks and wealthy individuals telling of the benefits of his invention and why they will not lose money! Unfortunately, too many people think that talking through wires long distances is a hair-brained idea. Dr. Bell is depending on you !
9) Hello there ! Dr. Alexander Graham Bell thinks highly of you! He said he asked you to put a proposal together for him so he could get funding for his new invention the telephone. Oh, excuse me. I got ahead of myself again. My name is Thomas Edison. Anyway, Dr. Bell told me that you could help me get financing for my new invention the phonograph. I need a proposal that will convince those tight-fisted bankers that they will not lose money on my invention. I'm sorry, I shouldn't be so hard on the bankers, they have had a tough time of it with the Panic of 1873. It is still going on and it is now 1877! Many say that the Panic will continue for another two years! Oh well ... if you could take the time to help me with that proposal, I sure would appreicate it!
10) Alliteration = Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words ... kind of like tongue twisters. Pronunciation: uh-LIT-uh-ray-shun
Example: Gravely Grant grimly greeted grimacing, grimy, groggy grooms groaningly. Ulysses' ultimate ultimatum undoubtedly caused uncommon, uncomfortible, and uncooperative ulcers.
Do your own Ulysses S. Grant Alliteration for railroad, Geronimo, Whistler, [Queen] Victoria, panic, etc.
Hint: If you have difficulty creating alliteration phrases, try the formula below ...
11) Ulysses S. Grant Analogies — Complete the following analogies. For analogy help, click here.
Ulysses S. Grant is to Washington, D.C. as Queen Victoria is to London Dresden Lansing (Michigan) Mexico .
Point Pleasant is to Ohio as Galena is to Washington, DC Illinois Dublin (Ireland) Mississippi .
Scalawags is to the South as Carpet-baggers is to Russia the North Alaska China .
Sir Henry Stanley is to the River Congo (Zaire) as Alexander Graham Bell is to the transcontinental railroad discovery of diamonds in Africa Dr. Livingston's missionary work invention of the telephone .
Alexander Graham Bell is to the telephone as Thomas Alva Edison is to the railroad Tammany Hall the 1871 Chicago Fire the phonograph .
Click here for Ulysses S. Grant Analogy Answers
12) Listen: Listen to the following music selections. What did you think when they were playing? What did you feel? How are these pieces alike/different?
Johann Strauss II — Die Fledermaus, operetta (1874) Gilbert and Sullivan — Trial by Jury, operetta (1875) Henry C. Work — Grandfather's Clock (1876)
13) Ulysses S. Grant Onomatopoeia — Complete the following. For Onomatopoeia help, click here.
What onomatopoeia sound ... a) ... was made at the Geneva Tribunal when the five representatives from different countries took their seats? b) ... did the golden spike make as it was pounded into the transcontinental railroad tie in Ogden, Utah (10 May 1869)? c) ... did the tea and spices make as it was delivered from San Francisco to the East one month later? d) ... is heard when a debt is being paid back in cash? e) ... was heard in the great fire of Chicago and Boston? f) ... does a horse make on cobblestone streets? on a dirt road? g) ... do dancers at a ball make while they dance? h) ... do you hear when someone is reading a book? i) ... is heard when an artist is painting? j) ... do you hear from a grandfather clock? k) ... is heard at a museum? l) ... is heard at the library? m) ... do you hear at the jewelry counter as the clerk brings out jewelry pieces? n) ... did Sir Henry Stanley make while exploring the River Congo (Zaire)?
Field Trips —
1) Field Trip: Go to an antique store and ask the clerk to show you three things from the years 1869-1877 or when Ulysses S. Grant was president. How are these things alike/different? Do we have anything like this today? Why? How do these old things smell?
2) Field Trip: Go to a graveyard and try to find graves between the years 1869-1877. Was the person a male or female? Do you think they were Christian? Make up a story about what you think this person was like.
3) Field Trip: If possible, go for a train ride. What did you think about the ride? Did it go as fast as your car? How would you like to travel several hundred miles on the train? Do you think you could sleep on a train? How would you amuse yourself while on the train for long distances (other than doing your school work)? Compare and contrast travelling in a train with travelling in a conestoga wagon and walking most of the way.
4) Field Trip: Visit your local fire station. Ask the firemen why they wanted to be firemen, what their training is like, are all fires the same, how do you put out fires, what fire safety should be in the home, etc.
5) Field Trip: Call your local courthouse and ask if you may witness a court proceeding. Schedule an appointment to meet with the judge. What do judges do? What does the Bible have to say about justice? How did King Solomon handle a dispute between two women claiming the same child?
6) Field Trip: Contact your local recruiting station. How do they get soldiers and sailors to join the military? What are some of the common reasons folks give for joining the navy or the military? What special training does an officer have to have?
7) Field Trip: Visit your local grocery store. How many new food utensils and new food companies from this time can you spot?
8) Field Trip: Visit your local library and view The Artist's Mother (1871) by James Whistler. What did you think of Whistler's work?
Ulysses S. Grant Analogy Answers: London, Illinois, North, invention of the telephone
Fun Reading —
Landmark and World Landmark Book Series (Random House, NY) Approximately 4th grade to 6th grade reading level — Only a few books in this series are currently being published. However, scouring the internet's used curriculum boards, flea markets, used book stores, library sales, and the like should assist you in locating these gems.
— The Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad by Adele Nathan, Landmark Series — Custer's Last Stand by Quentin Reynolds, Landmark Series — Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone by Katherine B. Shippen, Landmark Series
Great Illustrated Classics Series ... This series has a higher vocabulary level and gives just a wee bit more of the story than the Bullseye Step Into Classics Series
— Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne — Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll — The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain — Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Note: If you have not read the following books from the Childhood of Famous American Series, take the time to do so now ...
Childhood of Famous American Series — approximately 2nd to 4th grade remedial — Only a few books in this series are currently being published. However, scouring flea markets, used book stores, library sales, and the like should assist you in locating these gems.
—U. S. Grant: Young Horseman by Augusta Stevenson, , Childhood of Famous American Series — George Custer: Boy of Action by Augusta Stevenson, Childhood of Famous American Series — Tom Edison: Boy Inventor by Sue Guthridge, Childhood of Famous American Series —Aleck Bell: Ingenious Boy by Mabel Cleland Widdemer, Childhood of Famous American Series — Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph by Katharine E. Wilkie, Childhood of Famous American Series — George Custer: Boy of Action by Augusta Stevenson, Childhood of Famous American Series — Mark Twain: Boy of Old Missouri (or, Mark Twain: Young Writer) by Miriam E. Mason, Childhood of Famous American Series — Lew Wallace by Schaaf, Childhood of Famous American Series (Lew Wallace Special Note: Lew Wallace was a General for the North during the War Between the States. After the War, Wallace went to the Jerusalem to show that Christ was not God and to disprove the Bible. Wallace ended up writing the book Ben Hur: A Tale of The Christ. Obviously, Wallace repented and became a Christian!)