Today Mr. Bruns continued to go over his power point of the Democrats and Republicans. We went over the death penalty and how it is not allowed in Iowa. 99% are men who get the death penalty, because girls are not as likely to look as though they mig
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Today in class we started going over the Europe map. The Dow Jones is almost at the point that we might get donuts! Today Mr. Bruns went over his Democratic and Republican power point. Democrats usually live in the cities because of young people, and
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Today Mr. Bruns went over our assigned blog topic for this week. We then went over the Europe map, and said them with enthusiasm. We talked about a failed state that has no government, and that has collapsed because of natural disaster or a leader ta
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Today we started with reviewing the Europe Map. Then we went to current events. My topic was how Obama went to Copenhagen Denmark to speak about having Chicago host the next summer Olympics. It was disappointing to have it go out on the first round,
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We got donuts today. It was great...But now I'm sick now, so I'm not in the least happy.Wanna know WHY i'm sick? Because everyone in this town has a winning-complex. "we're the best bloody band so we have to practice in the snow at the crack of stupi
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We are continuing presentations in class today.Ch. 7-3 Politics in the Guilded AgeWhat was the political machine and what did they do for a city?-- Group of people who ran a political party in a city. (each city had dem political machine and rep. pol
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Today Bre finished her project and talked about Boss Tweed.She also talked about patronage.Presidents didnt like patronage, giving jobs to people that helped get the person elected.Jobs should go to those who are most pualified no matter what their p
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7.1 ImmigrantsWhy did immigrants come to the US?- To make better lives for their families they'd send back money. Phamine. Oppertunities.Where did immigrants come from?- Europe, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Russia. Chinese came because of gold rush, rail
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Section 7-2:What laws came about to reform government?Pendalton Civil Service Act was brought up by Chester Arthur.the Act made it so that people who deserved jobs got them.when you worked for the government you had to take tests to make sure you wer
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sarahs presentation, 7.1The new immigrantsmost immigrants came from land shortage, relidgious views.Europeans, chiniese, mexican, and west indies. most chiniese came for the gold rush in california.How they traveled, boat.it took a week to two weeks
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Tweed RingScandal-Building new court house in New York. Made tax payers pay $13 million, about $178 million today. Project only cost $3 million, about $7 million now. The $10 million went to the members of the Tweed Ring.Court Rulings due to Scandal-
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Science and Urban LifeChapter 8, Lesson 1-What advances in science and technology help solve urban problems?There were skyscrapers, which made it so you did not have as many buildings in a city, they just made them taller.Electric cars such as trolly
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Today in Us History we went over more projects.Section 8-1In 1890, Louis Sullivan designed the first skyscraper, the 10 story Wainwright Building in St Louis. During the 1870s and 1860s, they invented cable cars, Underground cables were installed and
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Today I had to present.I thiught that i did pretty good.Chapter 8-2-Expanding public Education.-How did education change in the late 1800's and early 1900's?The main idea reforms n public education led to a rise in national literacy and the promotion
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its fridayyy. (:Chapter 8 Section 1 - Science and Urban Life...In 1890 to 1891, architect Louis Sullivan designed the ten-story Wainwright Building in St. Louis. Daniel Bumham designed the slender 285-foot tower called the flatiron in 1902. Skyscrape
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Today, we did more presentaions, in the late 1800's , steel became availible, which allowed buildings to be made taller. Trolly cars also became availible during this tiime, makeing it easier to traverse the citys. also litercy rate went up, so publi
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