Ben worked online this morning. We began with a review of content covered in yesterday's class on the collision of cultures between Americans in the West and Indigenous people. Next, we moved on to a refresher on the Dred Scott Decision, and after a preliminary review, Ben remembered and volunteered details about this landmark decision/case of the Supreme Court case in 1857. We summarized the decision as upholding slavery in US territories and that it denied the legality of Black citizenship in America. This discussion set the stage for an introduction to the next unit of study about the second industrial revolution (Chapter 26). We began discussing the second industrial revolution when Ben asked to take a bathroom break. As it was recess time as well, Ben asked permission to use it as such and would resume our lesson tomorrow when he is to be online as well.