Posted by 8Brittany on October 10, 2011 at 10:33am
Mr. Bruns checks our website next monday. We have to have 15 discussions from Sept. 26-the end of this week. No assigned blog this week. Columbus day is to day its a state holiday most schools don't have school but we do. For the extra credit blog I have to email him a link to it.Ch. 8.1:-What advances in science and technology help solve urban problems?Engineering innovations, like Brooklyn Bridge. Skyscrapers-architects are able to design taller buildings because of Elevators and Internal steel skeletons. Electric Transit-streetcars were powered by underground cables. 20th century electric streetcar(trolley cars) outlined most of the cities. Railroads alound people to live in the subrubs and work in cities.Engineering and Urban Planning-Brooklyn bridge allowed people to cross the bridge on a regular day. Advancement in communications, railroad networks stretched across the country. In 1890 the literacy rate had increased to nearly 90%. Airplanes-Orville and Wilber Wright were bicycle manufactures from Dayton, Ohio. Experimented with a new engine for an aircraft. Aviaton-they signed a contract for production of the airplane with the U.S. Army. Photography was only a professional activity before 1880. George Eastman developed a way so photographers didn't have to take their dark room with them. Photojournalism allowed them to have pictures with their article.Ch. 8.2:-How did education change in the late 1800's and early 1900's?Established public schools. Primer- 1865-1895 states passed laws requiring 12-16 weeks annually of schol attendence by students between age 8-14. Kindergartens became popular.highschool-1890s more than half a million attendend high school. They expanded their ciriculum.college-minority of americans attended college. Blacks found universities. Slowly started increasing.immigrants-encourgaed to go to school because then could learn english and be americanised. 10 million European immigrants settled in the US between 1860-1890. They didn't know english but they learned it and could recite poems at the end of the year.african american-excluded from public secondary education, fewer than 1% of black teenagers attended high school in 1890. attended private schools. 3% in 1910 between the ages of 15-19 attended high school.Majority still attended private schools.Ch. 8.3:-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?Voting restrictions, Jim Crow Laws and the Plessy V. Ferguson case. Southern stated imposed voting restrictions. Administered a literacy test and increased the poll tax so the black couldn't pay it. Grand father clause made the 15th amendment invalid. 15th amendment- allowed blacks to vote. grandfather clause-said that all men of lineal descendents who were voters before 1867 didn't have to meet the voting requirements(education, property or tax). Railroads hired Mexicans because they would take less money, chinese came in on the west coast and they were taking jobs away from the whites because they worked for less.-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.Homer Plessy was 30 years old. He was 1/8 black and 7/8 white, riding in a white train car he got asked to move to the black car and refused. He was taken to jail, he was considered guilty to the jury. He wasn't satisfied and took it to the Supreme Court. Segregation-separate but equal, more like separate and unqual. Jury still considered him guilty. Case set up legal segregation for almost 64 years.
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