Hindsight History, sometimes called counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most

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Hindsight History, sometimes called
counterfactual history, is usually not history at
all, but most often a condescending game of
one-upmanship in which the living play political
tricks on the dead, who are not around to defend
themselves -as written in American Creation by
Professor Joseph Ellis, Mount Holyoke College
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Lessons Learned

• Revolution in the country
• Despite reason that the Confederacy seceded
  (slavery under the guise of states rights), the
  Confederacy experiences a revolution to begin to
  become more like the Union society that fought to
  keep them in the Union.
• Economy Industrialization, modernization
• Socially positive change killed by
  industrialization and Redemption racial hatred
  seeps even deeper into the roots of America
• Politically even more divisive than before the
  war a new sectionalism and political warfare

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Grades

• What hurts (no hard feelings)
• Excessive tardies (gt6)
• Excessive absences (gt1)
• Excessive sleeping (and blatant head down
  sleeping)
• Withdrawn from discussions

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As

• Outstanding achievement/performance in all
  aspects of the course. Student excels in meeting
  course objectives, and student's performance and
  measured learning substantially exceed
  instructor's minimum expectations for the
  course.
• My interpretation As youre consistently
  perfect/near perfect, crushed all the
  discussions, rarely nodded off, produced deep
  insightful work

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Bs

• Satisfactory completion of course requirements
  and good achievement/performance in all aspects
  of the course. Student excels in meeting course
  objectives, and student's performance and
  measured learning exceeds instructor's minimum
  expectations for course.
• Consistently pretty ok, did add to discussions
  most of the time, had a bad day or two but left
  an adequate impression

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Cs

• Satisfactory completion of course requirements
  and satisfactory achievement/performance in most
  aspects of course. Student meets instructor's
  minimum expectations for course.
• Consistently disengaged, average work, did all
  your work but skated by thinly.

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Ds

• Unsatisfactory performance in significant aspects
  of course and/or failure to complete course
  requirements. Student falls short of teacher's
  minimum expectations in terms of course
  objectives, but progress or achievement is
  sufficient to earn credit.

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