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1) What was the purpose of the pony express? the purpose was to deliver mail in a faster and easier way.Which was to do it by riding horses.

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) No I wouldn't be a good candidate because I have not had very much experience with riding horses,and i wouldn't want to take the chance of getting saverly sick.

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? Yes,i think the internet is impacting because it helps you get around to see where you are going like on google maps and also so you can see what people the mail or package goes to.Another is you can e-mail people or other coworkers.

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.

[|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 is against president Lincon because he is against Lincons believes,and he wanted something done about it.

2) What assumptions are you making from the article? Another words, what are you taking for granted? What I am taking for granted is that John is taking Lincons believes and thinking he can just get mad because he doesn't like what Lincon likes.

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? My assumption is that President Lincon had gotten assassinated 5 days before he had declaredin his speech that black has the same voting rights as whites.So he wanted it to carry in through generation of presidents in the future.Also i can check htem by google and read in a book to see what maybe how Lincons story was really or if my assumtions were correct.

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