Today we discussed blog 2 assignments.The Wright brothers invented the first plane. Spectator sports became more popular in the 1800s baseball was a spin off of round off which was a British game. They had different school's for black people. Black people had to teach themselves a lot. People were only taught reading, writing, and artithmetic. To get in college in the 1800s they usually only had to have a high school degree or take a test. In the 1940s and 60s most people finished high school, and only 10% went to college. Mass production of documents using the printing press spread culture more then before. Coney Island was made in the 1800s, it was an amusement park area. 1867 to 1877 there was the reconstruction act President Johnson vetoed the act. The 15th amendment made it so that you could vote no matter what your race was. To vote blacks had to answer questions they were basically literary tests they had harder questions than white people did.
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