Paul: Boy scouts they just celebrated the 100 year thing.
Cody: Jesse James he was a famous outlaw in the 1800s. he served in the Civil War as a fear fighter for the Confederate Army and followed along beside his brother. He robbed banks and highjacked trains.
Jake: wasnt done.
Justin: The break up of the standard oil company, it was a huge company that owned 97% of the oil. The Sherman Anti-trust law. It was divided into 34 different companies. a lot of the big oil companies came from this.
Olivia: Andrew Carnige he came here from Scotland at the age of 16 and his family was very poor so he was required to have a job. He was eventually a big part of the railroad. He's most famous for his steel company. When he was 66 he retired and sold his company for a billion dollars to JP Morgan.
Whitney: horses were used for everything and the created a lot of manure and that caused a lot of problems. nobody knew what to do about it, but when someone made the automobile that problem was gone, thought the manure was everywhere still.
Adam: Invention of the plow it was made in 1987. There was an actual man named John Deere.
Aaron: the x-ray. the guy that made it kept it a secret for along time to make sure it really worked.
Brett: didnt get done
Autumn: John Smith he founded James Town. After James Town was founded he had to teach everyone how to farm and work to survive.
Shelby: building of the Skyscraper. They came from the 1980s and was first discovered in 1851. They were needed in big cities because they needed space so they just built them upward instead of outward.
Luis: Mexican Immigration
Chelsea: The early cowboys. They started the rodeos by showing off how tough they were and their life was not easy at all. When horses went over to Mexico it was a big thing for them.
Kj: Brooklyn bridge it took 14 years to build
Brooke: Ellis Island. in one day they could get 11,000 people through and checked in
Katie: Laura Wilder she got a job at 16 and married at 18 she always told her child, Rose, about her pioneer life. Rose told her mom to write notes about her stories and they were turned into books. Little house on the prairie.
Josh: gone thrusday and friday last week
Michael: gone all last week
Colin: didnt do it
Keenen: statue of liberty, it was made in France and givin to us as a gift. when they shipped it over here a lot of the Americans didnt want it because of taxes and because it was built by Americans. Nobody died while building this
Kayla: Laboring a lot of Ag people left their jobs and went to factories.
Karl: Intro of the Steam Engine the first one was brought over in like 1783 it was brought over here to pump water outta mines. they were huge. Around 1830 the first one came to be used as trains and it went 18 mph\
Brittany: The Pullmans Strike it was during the panic of 1890. a bunch of people went on strike cause George Pullman wanted to cut wages.
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