continuing Chapters 5-8 powerpoint projects today. football game against glenwood tonight. the weather looks a little cold and dreary.
5-1
assimilation was trying to educate indians to be like whites. Dawes act, gave 160 acres to indians to farm. the gov't gave a lot of deals to the native americans, but also broke most of them. open range was a big area with no fences.
just a quick bit over 5-1.
6-1
thomas edison-wizard of menlo park, where he started with electricity. improved more than invented. record holder for over a thousand patents. chistopher sholes-created typewriter in 1868. graham bell-ccreated telephone. helpd found national geographic society. typewriteer was popular until mass printing and than until computers. phonographs started all sound recordings. electronic devices became more popular in everyday life.
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business needed better ways to get places faster, hence the railroads. 1856 reached mississippi, three years later met the missouri. workers, lots of chinese and irish, had to deal with indian attacks. whites got paid better and better hours thanks to racism. around this time people agreed to set world into 24 time zones because of railroads. all these different times were confusing and people had to change clocks and watches many times.
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