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For more than 40 years experts were baffled by an “anti-gravity zone” surrounding the Hudson Bay are in Canada, with some conspiracy theorists even claiming the spot might be a portal into another dimension. Scientists conducting a global gravity field survey first noticed the strange anomaly in the 1960s but have been...
You’re probably one of those people who are looking for some tips to improve their English communication skills. One important tool of speaking and writing well in English is a good sentence. If you don’t know its basic structure, then you’ll be speaking and writing bad sentences over and over again. The three importan...
Have you ever stopped to think about the origin of surnames - or perhaps of your surname, specifically? Most people simply accept their family name as part of their identity from birth, without really wondering about how it came to be. The use of surnames in England, Ireland, and Scotland developed gradually between th...
This packet consists of ONE YEAR of vocabulary practice using Greek and Latin roots. I have been using this packet for three years and have seen students improve reading comprehension through application of these roots. I use one list for two weeks (one list per week could be used) along with the graphic organizers tha...
When it comes to worksheets, opinions run the gamut. Some teachers love them and use them in class and for homework every day. Other teachers are not so keen on copies, and they prefer to use more organic strategies for teaching. But like everything in teaching (and in the world) there is a time and a place for workshe...
I’d never really paid much attention to true/false activities before, where the students read a statement about a reading or listening passage and then decide if it’s true or false, and usually just whip through the answers without really spending too much time on them. But recently I’ve found them to be useful practic...
BEFORE THE EUROPEANS ARRIVED, Cuba was inhabited by three different cultures: the Ciboneyes, the Guanahatabeyes and the Taínos. The Guanahatabeyes were in the island the longest, and have been described as a "shell" culture, or as nomadic societies of hunters and gatherers who used natural materials, such as unpolished...
In Texas kids learn about the number “pi” in 6th grade. I do not know how it is in Kansas. But we are not in Kansas anyway, so we can learn it now. We are not in Texas, and we are not in Kansas. We are on the unit disk with hyperbolic geometry defined by the transitive action of SU(1,1) – as it was discussed in the rec...
Wireless Power Transmission The technology for wireless power transmission or wireless power transfer (WPT) is in the forefront of electronic development. Applications involving microwaves, solar cells, lasers, and resonance of electromagnetic waves have had the most recent success with WPT. The main function of wirele...
New research on Martian meteorites shows evidence that water sufficiently warm enough to support life once existed on Mars. The study, published this week in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, determined that water temperatures on Mars ranged from 50°C (122°F) to 150°C (302°F). This observation was made u...
Vocabulary is key! Make it fun! It is so important that students know what is being asked of them when taking end of the year state/federal mandated tests. Knowing the vocabulary of the questions is one way you can help your students succeed! Use these vocabulary cards to practice important reading vocabulary individua...
A simple and practical ESL grammar exercise worksheet for kids to study and learn How much and How many. Fill in the blanks with How much or How many to complete the questions. Useful for teaching and learning how much and how many. Here on this page you can download and use ESL Printable Grammar Worksheets, Exercises,...
Please discuss the life and leadership of Elizabeth I of England. Discuss the impact Elizabeth I had on England and explain her leadership style. Elizabeth I of England In the year 1558 Elizabeth I ascended the throne of England. The England that Elizabeth became accountable for was poor, commercially and financially c...
|Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411)| The Great Pestilence (A.D. 542‑543) Long before the famous Black Death of the Middle Ages, the Eastern Roman Empire was devastated by the plague. The massive deaths weakened the Empire and its economy. History of the Later Roman Empire by J. B. Bury Jus...
First Statute of Westminster The word Parliament comes from the French word parlement. Parlement is derived from parler, to speak, and ment, which according to Bullet's Celtic dictionary, published in 1754, is synonymous with quantité. So Parliament means, lots of talk, a discussion. Some suggest a more ironic derivati...
On June 18, 1812, U.S. President James Madison signed a congressionally approved declaration of war against Great Britain. Explore 10 surprising facts about the conflict. 1. The bicentennial of the War of 1812 is a much bigger deal in Canada than in the United States. Although it produced patriotic icons such as “The S...
What Is Pollen? Pollen is a powdery substance emitted from a plant’s microscopic male gametophytes and is intended to fertilize (or pollinate) female ovules of the same plant. Pollen relies on nature to get where it needs to go. It is transported to its intended destination either by the wind or insect pollinators, suc...
Atonal Theory and Matrix The atonal system was a large break from the traditions of before. Western music first began with simple intervals in the time of Pythagorus. His system marked intervals like a unison and an octave as the most tonal (and pleasing to the ear). In the middle ages, musicians used church modes (Gre...
The research published Thursday in the journal Science represents a fundamental change in the way scientists view dinosaurs - not only in their outward appearance but in several important traits. The determination of the correct placement of the nostrils helps explain how dinosaurs smelled, found food, detected predato...
On this day in 1215, King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta Libertatum (commonly known as Magna Carta). Magna Carta Libertatum (Latin for “the Great Charter of the Liberties“), commonly called Magna Carta (“the Great Charter”), is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor. First...
Circulation is the amount of force that pushes along a closed boundary or path. It's the total "push" you get when going along a path, such as a circle. A vector field is usually the source of the circulation. If you had a paper boat in a whirlpool, the circulation would be the amount of force that pushed it along as i...
Some 81 percent of adolescents play video games online, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. And more and more children pack cell phones. Is there any time left for study? Using cell phones and playing video games may not be as harmful to children's academic performance as some have suggested, new r...
Long before we had the atomic theory of matter, scientists knew the air was real, even though it was invisible. This was because we could see its action as the wind caressed the leaves in trees. Now a new generation of detectors – including one we’re building in a gold mine in Victoria – is giving us hope that we might...
Do your children love using board games and dice? There are an almost unlimited supply of great ways to teach and learn using this method. But what if we could tweak games to increase mathematical understanding in young children aged 3-7? There is a strong link between a child’s understanding of numbers as a continuati...
Classification means grouping things by their features or characteristics. The more characteristics that are used to group similar organisms together, the more reliable is the classification. Small groups that are similar can be grouped in to larger groups. The groups that organisms are classified into are- Kingdom, Ph...
The History of the National Mall On January 24, 1791, President George Washington announced the Congressionally designated, permanent location of the national capital – a diamond-shaped, ten-mile tract at the confluence of the Potomac and Eastern Branch Rivers. Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker undertook a prelimin...
Landslides, also known as mudslides and debris flow, occur in all U.S. states and territories and can be caused by a variety of factors including earthquakes, storms and fires. Landslides can occur quickly, often with little notice; they develop when water rapidly accumulates in the ground, during heavy rainfall or rap...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015. The Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft has now made a daring dive through the icy plume spewing from the South Pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The spacecraft is near the end of its mission and will never again get so close to the moon’s surface. Cassini came within 30 miles (45 km) of Ence...
How Coins Are Made These Roman silver Antoninianii were struck using hand-held dies and hammers. The earliest Roman coins and some Biblical issues were cast (molten metal poured into molds and allowed to harden). Ancient Roman coins were cast until about 211 B.C., when the method of production changed to hand-held dies...
Beaufort Series, sedimentary rock layers that were deposited during the transition from the Permian Period to the Triassic Period. The boundary between the Lower and Upper Beaufort Series is recognized as the boundary between the Permian and Triassic systems, which occurred about 251 million years ago. The Beaufort Ser...
Harpy Eagles are the largest and most powerful raptors in the Americas with ecological importance as an apex predator as well as a cultural icon. Unfortunately their populations have dwindled over the last few decades due to forest fragmentation and hunting. Understanding the conditions favored by Harpy Eagles will hel...
An ESL Reading and Speaking Activity If you’re looking for an ESL reading and speaking activity, check out this story timeline activity. It makes an excellent follow-up activity for whatever reading your students are doing inside, or outside of class. It works equally well for both children and adults. It’s an excellen...
How Does the Fraser River Estuary Help the Migration of Birds? The Fraser River is one of the longest Canadian Rivers, flowing for over 1300 kilometres ( 550 miles) from its source in the Rocky Mountains to its delta in the Strait of Georgia near Vancouver, British Columbia. At its mouth, the river forms many islands l...
Researchers made use of earthquake reading technology to have a better idea of the Earth’s inner appearance. It seems that the core is made up of two layers, an outer core, and an inner core, both of which differ in composition and structure. The Earth’s inner-inner core, beyond the reach of humans. Photo credits: Lach...
Soon you will be getting reports of your child’s reading progress. Some teachers may share your child’s BRI scores. The BRI is a reading inventory that is given three times a year to all 1st -8th grade students. Even if your child is in a special program for reading support, they are given the grade level passage. This...
What is Zika Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in monkeys through a network that monitored yellow fever. It was later identified in humans in 1952 in Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. Outbreaks of Zika virus disease have been recorded in Africa, the Americas...
Islam made its entry into Australia much before Christianity. Macassar trepangers from the southwest corner of Sulawesi in Indonesia visited the coast of Northern Australia since 1700’s. The contact between both the cultures is speculated to have begun at least a century before the Europeans. Makassan fishing boats fre...
Join us and plant trees to save our environment Trees contribute to their environment by providing oxygen, improving air quality, conserving water, preserving soil, and supporting wildlife. During the process of photosynthesis, trees take in carbon dioxide and produce the oxygen we breathe. Approximately,one acre of fo...
By Noah- Did you guess right? Stonehenge was built in the Neolithic era and was an engineering masterpiece of its kind. The henge comprises of circular banks and ditches built in 3000bc. This ditch was erected using only picks made of antler to excavate the soil and they used chalk to make inner and outer banks. Before...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Superconductors and magnetic fields do not usually get along. But a research team led by a Brown University physicist has produced new evidence for an exotic superconducting state, first predicted a half-century ago, that can indeed arise when a superconductor is exposed to a stron...
It’s one of the most beautiful phenomena in existence, but scientists still don’t know exactly how the Aurora Borealis works. So we’re going to shoot some rockets into it. The Aurora Borealis, aka the Northern Lights, is a naturally occurring light display caused by charged particles entering the atmosphere and causing...
Much like in northern regions, deer in the south rely heavily on green forbs and grasses in the early spring. However, the dietary proportion of each forage depends greatly on climate and geographic range; southeastern deer generally have access to more forbs, whereas deer living in Texas or the southern plains states ...
You may review the first 3 lessons here: “The Separation of Powers: Preventing Tyranny” Separation of powers is the central structural feature of the United States Constitution. The division of power among the three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial—is necessitated because human beings are imperfect. The im...
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist known for his carefully detailed observations about nature and the physical world, which laid the groundwork for the modern study of biology. He was born around 384 BCE in the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia where his father was the royal doctor. He arguably grew up to...
Before the project began, students were introduced to the French vocabulary for the unit. In addition to knowing the terms listed below, students also needed a working knowledge of the community vocabulary learned during French 7 last year. The seventh grade words would come into play later when the students start crea...
Rock Cycle In your notes… Take out a BLANK page in your notes What is a rock? How is it different than a mineral? Give 4 characteristics of every rock… Do Now 1) Move to each station that is set up with rocks. Spend two minutes at each station and list at least 4 characteristics of the rocks that you see. 2) Write down...
What to See | My Images | Your Images | Distance to Mars Lets call the observer in Paris P and the observer in Guiana G. First We need to calculate the x, y and z co-ordinates of the two locations (relative to the centre of the Earth), We can do this using latitude and longitude: Where latitude = θ and longitude = α an...
Approach to Fractions Seen as Key Shift in Common Standards For many elementary teachers, fractions have traditionally sprung to mind lessons involving pizzas, pies, and chocolate bars, among other varieties of "wholes" that can be shared. But in what many experts are calling one of the biggest shifts associated with t...
a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh, and often occurring in epidemics. -Flu viruses spread mainly from person to person, through coughing or sneezing by people infected with influenza. -Sometimes people may become infected by touching a contaminated ...
The Calvin Cycle occurs during photosynthesis and makes a glucose (sugar) molecule. It happens after the light-dependent reactions in photosynthesis. The Calvin Cycle is called a light-independent reaction because it does not directly use light to function, but the outcomes of the light-dependent reactions that occur b...
Students will listen as two stories are read by LMS, the first of which is a class fairy tale. The LMS will lead a discussion with students on the characteristics of a fairy tale, including if fairy tales are true events. The second story read will be the twisted tale version of the classic fairy tale. The LMS will lea...
You may have read or heard the acronym ESD and wondered, “what does ESD stand for?” We’re here to explain what ESD is and how you can prevent it from occurring. ESD stands for electrostatic discharge. Under certain conditions, transference of electrical potential may occur when two materials with different charges come...
A fossilized spider was found in China with such perfectly preserved features that researchers were able to identify it down to its species name. Only two other fossils of its kind have been unearthed, and all three look like modern North American desert spiders. But this newly discovered fossil is supposed to be “120 ...
Ruby uses message passing to invoke specific behaviours. When a Ruby object receives a message, it checks to see if a method of the same name exists. If there is one, that method is invoked with the appropriate parameters. If the method doesn't exist, it calls the method_missing method and passes the message to it. We ...
The world is abuzz with news that gravitational waves have been detected for the first time. This is a huge leap forward for scientists’ understanding of gravity! For all that we experience gravity every day as we (mostly) stay grounded on the Earth, figuring out exactly how it works has been a challenge. Gravity draws...
Probability – the OR case We are continuing our discussion of Probability. If you missed the introduction and the “and” case of probability, here you go. Probability – the AND case Remember that probability is the odds or percentage of likelihood of an event happening in a given set of circumstances. The range of proba...
Law code, also called Legal Code, a more or less systematic and comprehensive written statement of laws. Law codes were compiled by the most ancient peoples. The oldest extant evidence for a code is tablets from the ancient archives of the city of Ebla (now at Tell Mardikh, Syria), which date to about 2400 bc. The best...
The Council of the District of Columbia is the legislative branch of local government established by the “District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973”, enacted by Congress and ratified by District voters. The Council is composed of a Chairman elected at large and twelve Members–four of whom are elected at large, and one...
INTRODUCTION TO TRAFFIC SIGNS Traffic is a contextual word which is a measure of volume. Channeled to transportation, traffic refers to the movement on various means of transportation. Traffic on roads consists of road users including vehicles, pedestrians, ridden and herded animals, street cars, buses and other convey...
The Importance of an Individual Education Program (IEP) If you have a special needs child going to a public school*, you need to be aware of the importance of an individual education program (IEP). What is an IEP? The IEP stems from the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 which was part of IDEA - the Ind...
Do Primary Sources Matter? |We use primary sources to know and understand what life was like in a different time. We learn from them not just what people did and said, but also what they thought and believed. Some of their ideas may seem silly to us; others may seem offensive and even hurtful. This is especially true o...
Shifts in the distributions of marine species are occurring globally in response to ocean warming associated with climate change. As waters warm, species in the northern hemisphere are moving north, whereas species in the southern hemisphere are moving south. However, our understanding of the biological and ecological ...
Geometry has been a key element of the liberal education of thousands of leaders. Because of its visual and intuitive nature, it is one of the most accessible ways to learn the art of a mathematical proof. In Geometry A, we will refine our ability to think and reason logically as we study the same geometry texts that l...
John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767, to Abigail and John Adams in Braintree, Massachusetts. John Quincy was largely raised by his mother because his father was heavily involved in the American Revolution. The older Adams would participate in the First Continental Congress, help draft the Declaration of Independ...
Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Stavanger (Norway) Local Project ID: HPC Platform used: Hazel Hen of HLRS Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime, predicted by Einstein already a century ago. With the announcement earlier this year that gravitational waves had been successfully detect...
The potential for solid state batteries to provide a safer and smaller alternative to today’s lithium-ion technologies is well known and research groups worldwide are working to overcome issues that hold the technology back from commercial adoption. A discovery made by scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...
Orphanages in the United States In April 1855, the well-known Jewish philanthropist Rebecca Gratz led a group of Philadelphia Jewish women in founding the Jewish Foster Home, one of the earliest Jewish orphanages in the United States. The women saw it as their responsibility to provide for Jewish orphans and destitute ...
Kids have dialogues with themselves if they enlist in imaginative play. Role-playing implies developing a story and providing a voice on the various figures in the story. When kids copy others, they’re creating a vocabulary which enables them to brand and go over the world around them. Less verbal kids may well chat mu...
Bacteria living on the skin of frogs could save them from a deadly virus, new research suggests. Ranavirus kills large numbers of European common frogs – the species most often seen in UK ponds – and is one of many threats facing amphibians worldwide. Scientists from the University of Exeter and ZSL’s Institute of Zool...
Exponentiation facts for kids Exponentiation (power) is an arithmetic operation on numbers. It is repeated multiplication, just as multiplication is repeated addition. People write exponentiation with upper index. This looks like this: . Sometimes it is not possible. Then people write powers using the ^ sign: 2^3 means...
Activities & Resources Before you visit Educational Standards [PDF] During their visit, students will tour the exhibit with trained museum guides who will reinforce specific themes, provide instruction on exhibition activities and facilitate discussion on key topics. Language of Medicine The exhibition opens with a rep...
Ten of the rights included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are the right to trial, the right to a nationality, the right to privacy, the right to peaceful public assembly, the right to own property, the right to education, freedom of expression, freedom from slavery, the right to seek asylum and the right ...
American History 1 - Unit 1 Part 2: Colonial America Vocabulary from chapter 1 sections 3, 4, and 5 focuses on Colonial America and the life of the colonial American. Terms in this set (28) The first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was established by the Virginia Company of London on May 14, 1607. Virg...
Matching and memory games are some of the most important methods that children learn. Through this method, children can learn to match something as simple as upper case to lower case letters but they can also learn languages, words and colors. Parents and teachers can use the matching method to teach children colors, a...
Students have ten seconds to draw a picture and have their teammates guess it. Archived from Englipedia. Originally submitted by Franchesca Ocampo on Jun 08, 2008. - Split the class into groups. The first person from each group stands up and goes outside the classroom and receives a sentence. Once they understand the m...
Over the past decade, mass coral bleaching events have decimated reefs around the world. In the hope of preventing or mitigating the effects of similar events in the future, some scientists are working feverishly to better understand the environmental conditions that lead to coral death. But others say there is also a ...
Although South Carolina never developed a railroad network comparable to those in most northern states, it nevertheless gained recognition as a railroad pioneer in the United States. Chartered in 1827, the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company (SCC&RR) ran its first train on Christmas Day in 1830, the initial rail...
Advice for Secondary Students * Creating and maintaining a positive environment where learning can take place is the obligation of all members of the school community. The school environment should allow learning through mutual cooperation, understanding, and respect for the rights, responsibilities and privileges of e...
Aside from the fact that they have totally opposite effects on the current in a circuit, capacitors and inductors are two totally different but equally important components of modern electronics. An inductor is nothing more than a coil of wire, with as few as two loops up to hundreds of loops wrapped around a core. The...
This English Language quiz is called 'Poetry (Part 1)' and it has been written by teachers to help you if you are studying the subject at middle school. Playing educational quizzes is a fabulous way to learn if you are in the 6th, 7th or 8th grade - aged 11 to 14. It costs only $12.50 per month to play this quiz and ov...
Number Bonds of 8: How many more to make 8? Find the missing number that makes 8 with the given number. Online addition practice for learning number pairs or number bonds with addition flashcards. Online addition flashcards to learn number bonds or number pairs of Making 8 is an ideal kindergarten online addition pract...
The Mongolian language is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely-spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner ...
by CommonLit Staff We've identified these texts as great options for text pairings based on similar themes, literary devices, topic, or writing style. Supplement your lesson with one or more of these options and challenge students to compare and contrast the texts. To assign a paired text, click on the text to go to it...
Between 1805 and 1840, five black churches were organized on the north slope of Beacon Hill. These churches were the spiritual centers of Boston's 19th century African American community, but they were also central to the political and social lives of black Bostonians. At these churches, faith directly informed action ...
Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with many more joints...
NASA’s first planet hunting mission finally drew to a close on October 30, 2018. After spending nine years in deep space circling the Sun in an orbit somewhat wider and slower than the Earth’s and collecting data that indicated the existence of billions of undiscovered planets, the Kepler telescope has run out of the f...
Signals From Ancient Stars Could Provide Clues About Dark Matter This was an especially big deal on its own, but looking at the radio waves showed something unusual which conflicts with our current understanding of how the early universe worked: the radio waves dipped in a way that suggested energy was being absorbed, ...
What Are Particulate Emissions? “Particulate matter (PM) is a substance composed of a mixture of small particles and liquid droplets. One of its primary sources is surface transportation vehicles like over the road trucks. Automobiles can directly emit PM from their tailpipes as a result of the combustion process of it...
Differentiating InstructionFive Easy Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms This article is from the website of Dr. Paula Kluth. It, along with many others on inclusive schooling, differentiated instruction, and literacy can be found at www.PaulaKluth.com. Visit now to read her Tip of the Day, read dozens of free articles...
This weekend marks the 30th birthday of the Montreal Protocol, often dubbed the world’s most successful environmental agreement. The treaty, signed on September 16, 1987, is slowly but surely reversing the damage caused to the ozone layer by industrial gases such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Each year, during the sou...
The ability to detect the direction of someone’s gaze is not unique to humans, as had been previously thought, according to new research. The contrasting colour patterns of our eyes, which help us see where others are looking, was thought to be unique in humans but has been found to be present in chimpanzees and bonobo...
American Civil War - (em)The Liberator(/em) Boston was the center of American antislavery activity. It was also the home of The Liberator, a newspaper started by William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison was only 26 years old at the time, but had already worked at various newspapers in the North. To him, none of the newspapers ...
What is project-based learning? Project-based learning is a method of instruction in which students are given a challenging question to answer or problem to solve. Generally, project-based learning integrates student voice and choice, but the variations can also be assigned by the teacher. Project-based learning often ...
Using a virtual reality experience to teach children could become standard in future education, as research published today suggests that it could dramatically improve learning. In a study by researchers at the University of Warwick, virtual reality (VR) was found to be more engaging and emotionally positive than eithe...
For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the distance to a spot clear across the galaxy. The established but challenging technique promises a new way to map the structure of the Milky Way. This technique, called parallax, has measured distances to stars since the 1830s. But because of galactic dust in the...
We would like to show the urgent need to act in order to mitigate global warming. For this purpose, we simulate different scenarios for the future emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and calculate their effects on the rise of the average temperature on Earth. Information about the simulation model can be found further do...
Although the atmosphere on Mars seems to push against everything that we as humans know to be life sustaining, scientists continue to push forward toward finding a way to colonize the planet. It seems nearly impossible but a recent Science paper published believes bacteria could help bring life to the red planet. Scien...
- The Union Legislature of India is not only the lawmaking body, but the center of all democratic political process. The Parliament is the central legislature and the legislature of the state is known as ‘State Legislature.’ - The Parliament of India is bicameral (i.e. consists of two houses) namely Rajya Sabha (the Co...
For the second H20 Action Project, GCE Freshman investigated the following guiding question: How prepared are you in case of a water crisis? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: There was a flood in your city, and all water sources have been contaminated. To avoid relocating to a different city until the ...
When the Fifteenth Amendment was passed, the large numbers of new black voters meant that blacks were finally participating in government. The Freedmen’s Bureau helped African Americans build schools, small businesses, and churches. Several black colleges were founded during this time. White teachers came to the South,...