Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story

(Nuestro Estado, Nuestra Historia)

Chapter 1: Connecting to Our State’s Story

(Capitulo 1: Haciendo Conecciónes al Historia de Nuestra Estado)

Preguntas / Respuestas
  1. How do we tell our state’s story?
Teacher
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  1. What phrases do we use to help us think like historian?
List 5,
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3. What two kinds of evidence do historians use? /
  1. How do historians use evidence to write history?
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Words (Palabras) / Definition (definición)
  1. Artifacts

  1. Cause and effect

  1. Change and continuity

  1. Document

  1. Evidence

  1. Historian

  1. Interpret

  1. Investigate

  1. Primary sources

  1. Secondary sources

  1. Thinking like a historian

  1. Through their eyes

  1. Turning points

  1. Using the past

Chapter 2: A Place with a Past

(Un Lugar con un Historia)

Questions
Preguntas / Answers
Respuestas
1)What completely reshaped Wisconsin? /
2)What are some glacier features and landforms?
List and describe 4 /
3)How do our waterways show these changes? /
4)Why are waterways so important? /
5)How do we locate Wisconsin? What are our physical and political boundaries? / Physical boundaries are
Political boundaries are
6)How are Wisconsin’s regions different? How are they the same? / The class will work on the map together.
7)What features of the Wisconsin region attracted people to settle and live here? / Class Discussion
Words (Palabras) / Definition (definición)
8)continent
9)country
10)state
11)county
12)city
13)elevation
14)geography
15)geology
16)glacier
17)ice age
18)hemisphere
19)region
20)landforms
21)wetlands
22)latitude
23)longitude
24)elevation
25)physical boundary
26)political boundary
27)equator
28)Prime Meridian

Chapter 3. Wisconsin’s First People

Primeras Personas de Wisconsin

Questions
Preguntas / Activity
Actividad / Answers
Respuestas
  1. How did Native Americans live? Foods, homes, travel, activities.
/ Read and make artifacts. /
  1. How did their lives change as the climate warmed?
/ Read and discuss. /
  1. What were turning points in the history of Wisconsin Indians?
/ Read and make timelines.
  1. What things did Wisconsin Indians do thousands of years ago that we still do today?
/ Read and make “Now and Then” posters. / Then / Now

Chapter 4. The Fur Trade Era: Exploration and Exchange in Wisconsin

Questions
Preguntas / Activity
Actividad / Answers
Respuestas
  1. How did early explorers find their way in Wisconsin?
/ Draw paths on a map. /
  1. How did the lives of Wisconsin Indians change because of the fur trade?
/ Fur trader’s picture diary. /
  1. What kinds of changes in the fur trade were so important that historians call them turning points?
/ Fur trader’s picture diary. /
  1. How are exploration and exchange still part of what we do today?
/ Discuss and make posters /
Words (Palabras) / Definition (definición)
  1. American Revolution

  1. British

  1. Europeans

  1. exchange

  1. French and Indian War

  1. fur trade

  1. Jean Nicolet

  1. Jesuit missionaries

  1. Métis

  1. portage

  1. War of 1812

Chapter 5. Becoming Wisconsin: From Indian Lands to Territory to Statehood

Pretend you are a Native American tribe. You need to use resources to work and trade with the white miners and other tribes. You also need to make treaties with the white government.

Questions
Preguntas / Answers
Respuestas
  1. How did Native peoples’ ideas about land use affect their understanding of treaty-making?
Page 82 /
  1. How and why did lead mining in the early 1800’s change life in Wisconsin?
Page 86 /
  1. In what ways was the Black Hawk War a turning point for Wisconsin?
Page 89 /
  1. How did the signing of treaties affect Wisconsin Indians?
Page 85, 90 /
  1. How did the signing of treaties affect the new settlers?
Page 92 /
  1. How did Wisconsin become a state?
Make a timeline and vote on rules for the new state.
Page 95
  1. How did our state constitution define the way our government still works today?
Separate the Capitol into three sections and describe what happens in each section.
page 95
Words (Palabras) / Definition (definición)
  1. Black Hawk War

  1. capital

  1. capitol

  1. cede

  1. citizens

  1. executive

  1. federal

  1. frontier

  1. governor

  1. judicial

  1. legislators

  1. legislature

  1. massacred

  1. militia

  1. representatives

  1. survey

  1. territory

  1. treaties

Chapter 6: They Came to Wisconsin and They’re Still Coming: Immigration and Settlement

Pretend you are an immigrant family from long ago. Neatly pack a travel chest and survive in Wisconsin. You survive in Wisconsin by growing/buying food, building/buying a house that is not broken down, making/buying supplies and/or money to buy supplies, having a job.

Goals and steps

  1. Work together and follow directions
  2. Read your book and answer/understand the questions NEATLY.
  3. Practice, and then present your work to the class.
  4. Bring clothes, kitchen supplies, work supplies, and household supplies. The more you bring, the less you have to buy.

Tips

  1. Books, paper, and pencils are your other work supplies. You have to bring them.
  2. Green sticks are your starting money from your own country. Trade them for American money.
  3. Make supplies at your home country by using rolled up paper—make and pack only what you need.
  4. Soapboxes are clothes. One whole soap box is four pair of clothes, one half of a soap box is two pairs of clothes
  5. Clay is used to make artifacts from your home country. Every person has to make and bring one artifact; then the family has to make one bigger artifact together.

Questions
Preguntas / Answers
Respuestas
  1. Why did immigrants leave their homeland?
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  1. How did immigrants keep traditions they brought with them? (In other words what were some old things they still did in Wisconsin?)
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  1. How did immigrants adapt to their new country and country? (In other words, what new things did they do in Wisconsin?)
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  1. What were the turning points in the lives of the people in this chapter?
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Words (Palabras) / Definition (definición)
  1. emancipated

  1. emigrate

  1. holocaust

  1. immigrant

  1. immigration

  1. integrated

  1. migrant

  1. migration

  1. refuges

  1. slave

  1. slavery

Chapter 7: Wisconsin and the Civil War

Build Army Hospitals During the Civil War

Pretend you are Cordelia Harvey the “Wisconsin Angel” during the Civil War. You have to work hard to get army hospitals built. The more work you do on these questions, the more rooms (cubes) you get to add to your hospital; the more rooms you add, the more soldiers you can help.

Questions
Preguntas / Answers
Respuestas
What did many people living in Wisconsin in the mid-1800’s think about slavery and the South?
Page 124 /
What happened after the Joshua Glover situation and the Fugitive Slave Act?
Page 125, 126, 127 /
How did the Civil War Begin?
Key word search /
What did soldiers do and what happened to them during the Civil War?
Page 130, 131, 132, 133, /
How was the Civil War a turning point in our country’s history?
Key Word Search /
Words (Palabras) / Definition (definición)
  1. abolitionists

  1. brigade

  1. Civil War

  1. Confederacy

  1. fugitive slave

  1. orphans

  1. recruiting

  1. secede

  1. Underground Railroad

Chapter 8: Lead, Soil, and Sawdust, 1820-1914

You now have traveled through time again and you are going to learn about early farming and logging. You are going to be a logger who needs to work to survive. Every question you answer gets your more logs and moves your logs further down the river.

Be careful: make mistakes and you could lose logging tools or workers in the river or possibly cause a log jam that backs you up on the river.

Questions
Preguntas / Answers
Respuestas
  1. How has our use of natural resources changed over the years?
Key word search? /
  1. Why did lead mining die out in Wisconsin?
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  1. What are some things pioneer farmers have to do? What did the kids do?
Key word search /
  1. Why didn’t wheat farming last?
What other crops did Wisconsin farmers begin to grow in place of wheat?
Key word searches /
  1. What can we learn by looking at old photographs and old census reports?
Key Word Search /
  1. How did Wisconsin become a dairy state?
How did William Hoard help dairy farming?
Key Word Search /
  1. What did loggers have to do?
What tools did they use?
How did they have to do after cutting down a tree?
Page 154 /
  1. Describe a logging camp…
What buildings were in a logging camp?
What were some things that people did in logging camps?
Key word search /
  1. Draw a picture of logs going down a river. Don’t forget the people and the tent. Label the parts in your picture.
Page 156, 157
Words (Palabras) / Definition (definición)
  1. agriculture

  1. census

  1. dairy cow

  1. diversified farming

  1. economy

  1. invention

  1. logging

  1. market

  1. market

  1. mineral

  1. pioneer

  1. soil

  1. technology

  1. transportation

Chapter 9: Transportation and Industry Change Wisconsin

You now have traveled through time again and

you are going to learn about transportation and industry in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

You are a factory worker (choose your factory by looking at the bottom of page 162 and 163) who earns money for every question that you answer correctly.

Questions
Preguntas / Answers
Respuestas
  1. How did shipping and railroads effect where cities were built?
Page 164—169 /
  1. How did industry help cities grow?
Key word search /
  1. What changes and new ways of doing things were happening because of industrialization (the growth of industries)?
page 170 /
  1. What kind of people were entrepreneurs? Why did they need engineers?
Page 174 /
  1. In what ways were the lives of workers in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s different from the lives of workers today?
Key Word Search / Late 1800’s, early 1900’s / Same / Today
  1. What changes did “Fighting Bob” La Follette make that made him famous?
  1. What did he fight to regulate?
  1. What other laws did he work to pass?
  1. Explain the partnership that became known as the “Wisconsin Idea”
Key Word Search /
Words (Palabras) / Definition (definición)
entrepreneurs
industrialization
industry
labor
labor unions
manufacturing
progressives
reformers
rural
urban
wages

Chapter 10

Good Times, Hard Times, and Better Times:

1895 to 1945

War is tough!

There is a war going on in the continent of Europe. Many of you will be drafted (picked to go to war); the rest of you will stay safe in Wisconsin. If you are drafted you may get injured, become a prisoner, wind up missing, or you may die. Whatever happens, you need to survive. If you are working in a Wisconsin factory you survive by getting paid money. If you are a soldier in the war you survive simply by living another day.

Questions
Preguntas / Answers
Respuestas
  1. Wisconsin is the country’s most German state. What happened to some German Americans living in Wisconsin during World War I?
  1. What was the Sedition Map? Why was it made?
  1. What were some changes to things that had German names?
Page 193 /
  1. How did the automobile make lives better? (3 or more things)
  1. The Good Roads Movement made our roads better. Explain which roads had even or odd numbers and which roads had letters.
Page 188 /
  1. The federal government’s New Deal had many programs to help people. Name four things that the programs helped build?
page 195 /
Words (Palabras) / Definition (definición)
Great Depression
neutral
New Deal
tourism

Chapter 11: New Opportunities, New Challenges

There are new chances for fun and games in Wisconsin and some new challenges. Learn about recreation, sports, wars, terrorism, and the Equal Rights movement.

Pretend you are Olympic Gold Medal speedskater Eric Heiden from Madison going for Gold Medals.

Earn a Gold Medal for every question you answer correctly.

Questions
Preguntas / Answers
Respuestas
  1. Why were the United States and the Soviet Union enemies?
  1. Why did the United States send troops to help the South Koreans in the Korean War and the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War?
  1. What was the Gulf War in 1990?
Key Word Searches / 4 reasons
1 big important reason
2 or more sentences
  1. What were threethings Aldo Leopold did to help us think about land use?
  1. Name four other people in Wisconsin and one thing each of them did to help protect our environment.
Key Word Searches /
  1. Draw pictures of six winter sports we can do in Wisconsin.
Page 213
  1. How did Lambeau Field get its name?
  1. Name three famous Wisconsin baseball players from the book and the years they played?
Page 210, 211 /
  1. When people struggled and protested for Equal Rights, which four groups of people in particular did they want equal rights for?
  1. How have Wisconsinites protested for equal rights?
Key Word Searches /
Words (Palabras) / Definition (definición)
activist
capitalist economy
Civil Rights movement
Cold War
communist government
developers
equal rights
globalization
interstate highway
land use
protested
suburbs
terrorist