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1) What was the purpose of the pony express? The largest purpose of the pony express was to deliver important mail faster than stage coach.

2) Would you have been a good candidate to be one of the riders? Why or why not? (use the information from the article to support your answer) I don't think I would not be a good candidate to be one of the riders because I am not very patient and don't have good sense of direction. That would not be very helpful if I was a rider because the trips sometimes took 10 days! I obviously would not have been a very good pony express rider!

3) Just as the telegraph led to the end of the pony express, do you think it might be possible that the internet is impacting our current postal system? Why or why not? I think the internet is impacting the postal systems for many reasons. One, is because it is a lot faster than waiting to for the letter to arrive to your house. Another, is because it is easier than writing a letter. With e-mail, you just type, and typing is much faster for most people than writing. And lastly, because it is better for the environment. Because with e-mail and instant messaging you use the internet to send it, while sending mail uses gasoline to power the cars or airplanes. For those reasons, internet is certainly impacting the postal system.

4) Write a summary of the movie that Miss Dauman showed you at the beginning of class and put it in my correcting basket at school. The movie we watched was called The Pony Express. It was about how in 1860 people invented the pony express to carry important mail faster. The pony express was when a man rode a horse to whoever the piece of mail belonged to. In October 1861 people discovered the telegraph that sent messages almost instantaneously. Then, the pony express was forgotten.

[|Lincoln] If you have time click on the following article and read the story. Answer the following questions.

1) Who was John Wilkes Booth and why was he so angry with President Lincoln? John Wilkes Booth was very upset with President for political reasons. Mostly because Lincoln believed in stopping slavery while John did not, and wanted revenge.

2) What assumptions are you making from the article? Another words, what are you taking for granted? One thing I assumed or took for granted about Abraham Lincoln is that he was a great president that had great plans to stop slavery. It makes you think what big things Abraham could have done if he didn't go to Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865.

3) How can you check to see if those assumptions are accurate or not? What evidence would you site to support or refute this assumption? Something to support my assumption is that President Lincoln made a speech 5 days before the assassination about black voting rights. And maybe if he could have followed through with that plan it might have made a difference in history.

Once you are in the story please click on John Wilkes Booth's name or Dr. Samuel Mudd. Read their stories and write a brief summary. 2-3 paragraphs about each of them.


 * You may not get all of this done, but get as far as you can.

Miss Hansen