Today he showed us how to put our powerpoints onto our profile so Mr. Bruns could view them. We also started our presentations. First was section 5-2 which was about importance of railroads on the great plains women did more work in 1872 is when Yellowstone got protected because of animals in the 1800's farmers got more advanced technology machinery was expensive so farmers had to borrow money Justice Katy Austin F
Section 5-1
Cheyenne were nomads which meant they wandered, Spain brought over guns and horses for Indian tribes for hunting, 1858 gold and silver were found, towns originated from mining camps, native americans last almost all there land in seventy five years. cowboys got most of their way of life from vaqueros that were mexican cowboys, they taught them how to care for them animals and brand them etc. only used guns to shoot harmful animals and thieves. Long drive lasted three months and had 250-300 head of cattle for every cowboy trail boss made $100 or more a month. Hard life had to bath and wash clothes in rivers and sleep on the ground. Wild Bill was a spy during the civil war and calamity jane was a sharp shooter that often dressed like a man HannahNavi
Section 5-3
Had a lot of issues with money so had to plant more crops just to get the same money, had a much more harder life than today with very high costs, railroads were very expensive, Populous is the farmers or common people, President could be presidet for his whole life as long as they elected him, many things that the populous wanted we have today, graduated income tax is when the more you make the more they take out in taxes, populous didn't get many votes it was only about 10%
Section 6-1
kept bringing stuff into cleveland for the city to grow, clothing industry peaked in the 1920's, 1880 Edison improved the lightbulb, Alexander bell age 29 made the telephone, typewriters and telephones made it easier for women to get jobs Austin, Chris, Nate
Section 6-3
Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant and came to america when he was 7 he started poor and ended up being very wealthy, Social Darwinism explains the process of natural selection or in other words survival of the fittest, John Rockefeller owned the largest oil company in the U.S. he used a monopoly which meant he bought out all the other oil companies, in his time Rockefeller was the world's richest man and first American billionaire, laborers worked long hours, didn't get compensation, women and children worked in sweatshops, blacks werent allowed to join the labor union, so they formed their own union, people said labor union were radicialists so people turned against labor unions, 146 women died in a locked building because it set on fire and the company owners got charged with manslaughter Joey anna
Section 7-1
20 million europeans came in the years of 1870-1920, chinese and japanese helped build railroads, mexicans came here for jobs and turmoil, when coming across on the ship they had to travel in the steerage which is below deck and weren't allowed to come up, a lot of people died because of no waste facilities and diseases plus hot and cold weather, Ellis island is where all the immigrants had to go through to be able to be a us citizen and had to be put through many different inspections, many immigrants wanted to keep their culture and everything they had before they came here, formed anti-immigrant groups
Section 7-2
americans wanted to americanize the immigrants coming into the united states, mccormick reaper was a steel plow, major fires occured in the 1870's and the 1880's, in san fransico deadly fires broke out because of earthquakes, if something died it would be in the street and cities would smell bad, jane addams was a spokesperson for radical justice,
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