Inventor of the Steam Engine.
Who is James Watts?
This was "King" in the South.
What is cotton?
DD #2: The other major crop in the south besides King Cotton:
The main protagonist in our novel who grew into a man.
Who is Jethro Creighton?
This is more dangerous than others of its kind, has compressed older ice layers, with fewer air bubbles contained within, has most of its mass submerged below the water, and if much more difficult to see, especially at night.
What is a Blue Berg or Blue iceberg?
This fallacy claims that only two choices exist in solving the problem--when really in truth, more than two exist.
what is Either-or fallacy?
Joe says,"I want to go to McDonalds also." This is the form of "TO" that would be used to say "also."
What is "too?"
Abraham Lincoln
Who was President of the USA during the American Civil War?
This powered the Titanic.
DD#5--Who was the captain of the Titanic who went down with the ship?
What is a Steam Engine?
Eli Whitney
Who built the Cotton Gin in USA?
This is the movement in which the development of machines changed people's way of life, as well as their methods of manufacturing. Man-power and horse-power was replaced by machines and factory assembly-lines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The main lesson Jethro learns about war throughout the novel.
That war is not a fun adventure or just about victory, but war is painful, causes suffering, is complicated and doesn't always have clear-cut answers. That it divides families.
This was what happened for the demand for coal during the Industrial Revolution.
What is "It skyrocketed!"
Jethro heard that his brother was shot riding home.
What is Amphiboly fallacy? (The sentence is unclear and confusing and could be taken two different ways.)
This is the proper spelling of the 3rd person form of the word "cry." (3rd person is he/she/it _______)
What is "cries?"
The length of the American Civil War.
What is 5 years?
This specific type of thing struck Titanic at approximately 11:40 am in 4-14-1912.
What is a blue iceberg?
DD6: Who was the Scottish Pastor who went down with the Titanic, gave away his life jacket, and desperately asked everyone he came in contact with, "Are you saved?" and told them about Jesus' love for sinners! One man was saved after hearing the gospel, just before he died in the water of hypothermia.
The inventor of the steam engine.
Who is James Watts?
This is where factories were rerquired to be located before the invention of the steam engine.
What is by rivers or streams moving water?
What are two of the main themes from our "Across 5 Aprils?"
1. War affects not just soldiers on the battlefield, but families, homes, loyalties, and the hearts of ordinary people.
2. War costs--suffering, grief, fear and loss.
3. Jethro's coming of age and growing in wisdom and maturity as he faces hard realities.
4. loyalty and division-war splits families
5. Courage and endurance--people keep going even through pain and undertainty.
6. War is not simple; good people can be found on both sides.
Before the Industrial Revolution (IR), people spent long, tedious hours of this kind of labor on simple objects.
What is hand labor?
DD #1: This was replaced by the Power Loom.
"Jeth, come quickly to bring Eb food while he hides in the hollow tree! You are his cousin!
What is exigency fallacy?
The singing man is lounging in the hammock. (Name the participle.)
What is "singing?"
Two of the arguments or issues between the North and the South during the Civil War:
DD #4: Who was the president of the South after it seceded from the Union?
What are:
•The secession of the Southern States.
•Slavery
•The South was against "Big Government" control and favored State's rights.
•Economic Differences--North was becoming more industrial, with rairoads and factories while the South was ore agricultural and relied on slave labor.
•Election of Abe Lincoln
•Expansion into new states
One reason 1500 people perished when Titanic sank.
What is: shortage of lifeboats, shortage of lifejackets, the pride of man saying Titanic was "unsinkable," the ship was going faster than recommended due to the possibiity of icebergs, the lethally cold temperature of the Atlantic Ocean at that time of year, the captain of the California ship did not answer the distress calls, the Carpathia ship responded but was an hour and a half away.
The inventor of the power loom.
Who is Edmund Cartwright?
This event in history slowed down the speed with which the IR spread from Britain to the USA.
What is the American Civil War?
The imaginary line established by the Federal Government which seprated the slave states from the free states.
What is The Mason-Dixon Line
How did factory owners in the North, and those who made profit from cotton in the
South, undermine the purposes of the American Revolution if/when they abandoned virtues like honesty, love for fellow-man, and truth?
The American Revolution fought against tyranny and FOR freedom for Americans. The cotton and factory industries, when they act without virtue, dehumanize people and strengthen the hold of slavery in the South. When efficiency and profit rule the heart of powerful people, society is harmed by the compromise of safety, health and human dignity.
The dog walked past the well this morning. Jeth found coal oil in the well this evening. Therefore, the dog must have put the coal oil into the well!
What is the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy
This is a kind of noun that is placed closely after the noun it tells more about.
Example: The Titanic, the greatest naval disaster during peacetime, sunk to the icy depths in 2 hours and 40 mins.
What is an appositive?
DD#3
Example from the sentence in this question:
The battle that began the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The mantra or saying by the men on Titanic as it sunk.
What is "Women and chidren first?"
Daily Double: The Scottish pastor who shared the gospel with everyone he saw as he gave away his lifejacket and went down with the ship.
Coal fueled these three main things during the IR:
What are factories, steamships, and steam locomotives?
Some of the great blessings of the Industrial Revolution.
DD #7-Invented the first locomotive.
More products like flour, clothing, paper, iron etc. were available to more people, improving their quality of life at cheaper prices.
Less tedius work was required of people and animals with the help of machines.
Travel was quicker, safer, cheaper, and more efficient.
Communication was improved and developed
The state that was designated as free, and the state that was designated as slave, by the Federal Government during the time of the American Civil War through the Missouri Compromise of 1850.
What is free state Maine and slave state Missouri?
The cotton gin did the job of _______ slaves in it's ability to clean (pick and remove seeds and hulls from) cotton.
What are 50?
If it is Spring, the Purple Martins will come back to my yard from Brazil.
The Martins have come back!
Therefore it must be Spring!
What is Affirming the Consequent?
The name of the punctuation that sets off an appositive.
What is a comma?
Name A battle from the novel in the Civil War.
What are:
Gettysberg
Antietam
Vicksburg
Pea Ridge
Bull Run/Manassas
Fort Sumter
Shiloh
Fredricksburg
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Wilderness
Atlanta
Appomattox Court
Petersburg
The sinking of the Titanic could be compared to this event in the Bible where man was not grateful for the abilities and achievements God gave man, and pridefully tried to "be like God and make a name for himself."
What is the destruction of the Tower of Babel?