Empathy vs. Sympathy

Hi everyone!! Back today again with another blog post! This blog post will be about the differences and similarities between empathy and sympathy. To make this a little easier I am going to separate this into different paragraphs:

EMPATHY:

• is the intellectual identification or vicarious experiences of feeling, thoughts, and attitudes of others.
• The experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective.
• Key Ideas: understanding, knowledge, imagination, thinking about feeling
• Actions: thinking

SYMPATHY:

• are the feelings of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
• Emotion and Feeling!
• Actions: affirmation, comfort, condolences, words of comfort
• Downsides: social, interaction, limited or strained, people see you as unapproachable

SIMILARITIES:

• may or may not have something to do with shared experience
• both have something to do with feeling, but empathy is thinking about feelings and sympathy is having feelings

The reason why empathy is important for historians is because they have to understand what the person was going through. They have to understand why the tragedies happened and why those people died. Having their emotions open will also keep their minds open.

Thanks for reading!!

xoxo Ellie

US History 1600s - Civil War

Hi everyone! In my first blog post I will be writing about the US History (1600s - Civil War).  The start of America began in 1607 in Jamestown, VA which was where the first permanent settlement was. As years pass we come to the Pilgrims arriving in the Americas in a ship called the Mayflower and then 6 years later they established the first 13 colonies! These colonies including, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. As the population spiked in the 1700s from 275,000 to 1.6 million, they were in search for more land, and they got it! They got the Northwest Ordinance (which is Ohio), Louisiana Purchase (which included most of the land west of the Mississippi River), the Missouri Compromise (Missouri was created practically for slaves. smh), the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (which got California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming) and lastly the Gadsden Purchase (which got the rest of Arizona and New Mexico). With this new land the US expanded and so did the population! (now at 4 million!!) But with these wins, there came challenges. After the Articles of Confederation was created, they had to have a Constitutional Convention to revise and start from scratch. The importation of slaves were banned, and the Compromise of 1850 began (which practically said the California and Washington D.C. are free states, and that they do NOT ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico). Before the Civil War, the US stayed united by compromise, if they received a complaint then they would compromise either new land or new laws.

    <<< this is a picture of one of the pages from the timeline activity!!!

Thanks for reading!!

xoxo Ellie