In the late 1800’s, the West wasn’t as “wild” as the stereotype suggests, but there were plenty of reasons to require some kind of law enforcement. In most Western towns, …
Category: Classes
Homesteaders & Locust Plauges
The Homestead Act of 1862, signed by Abraham Lincoln, gave anyone, 21 years old or older, who had never taken up arms against the government, 160 acres of land in …
Transcontinental Railroad
Instead of reading the book, Charlie Brown & company have a nice little video that covers this topic nicely, and will likely be remembered far longer then a few pages …
Steam Locomotives – How do they work?
The book‘s explanation of a steam locomotive reads like something I’d read to my 3 year old nephew, not a 3rd grader. “The steam presses on pipes inside the locomotive. …
Gold Rush of 1849
Instead of devoting a lot of time to this, as the book does, I just mentioned as the ending of the Mexican-American war. We talked about how this is where …
Mexico’s Independence, Texas Sovereignty, and More War
None of these things were explained in the Heritage Series 3 book. The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 got scarcely 3 sentences before the text moved on & spent 3 pages …
More about the War of 1812
The textbook says that British Sailors were hiding on American ships, and that the Americans got upset when the Brits started searching our ships. Then it glosses over the whole …
War of 1812
The Heritage Studies 3 book contains very little of the War of 1812, and much of what they spend time on is inaccurate. So I went online. I found an …
American Frontier Life
We finished Chapter 3 of the Heritage Studies 3 book. I can’t post the test I made for this, because I wound up using one of BJU’s maps in the …