We're talkin about the daily blog today! Thankfully, I got mine done this weekend! oh! and here's the link to my presentation of prezi!
Jessie James-robbed banks, led gang, murdered, older brother and younger sister, Baptist Minister, robbed republican banks with sister, got shot in the back of the head
Alexander Grahm Bell-when young he liked to experiment on stuff like insects, 1865 moved to London, 1870 moved to Canada-expirimented for telegraphs, opened a school-one of his students was Helen Keller, expirimented his whole life and finally got a telegraph
Immigration-came over for cheap land, riches, freedom, germans stood together-same as Irish and Chinese
Bohemia-85,000
Canada-1,897,000
China-104,000
France-107,000
Germany-4,630,000
Ireland-3,470,000
Italy-484,000
Norway-518,000
Sweden-776,000
Switzerland-89,000
United Kingdom-2,086,000
Andrew Carnicky-had own steel company, made fortune-known to be one of the richest men in the world (second richest man in the world), captain of industry
First Continental Railroad-Pacific railroad made trading and transporting goods and people faster
Cowboy-Nat Love-was a slave and became a cowboy-at end of life worked as a reporter until end of life at age 67
Settlers-moved west for cheap land and new life, land back then acres went for $2-$8 while today is $6,000-$8,000 for each acre
Farming inventions-steel plow-helped break through the tough and hard soil, barb wire, reaper-helped speed up harvest, steel windmill-brought up water
John D. Rockefeller-owner of oil company, at age 12 saved $50-loaned money to farmer with 7% interest!, 1863 started oil company in Ohio
Benjamin Harrison-republican that thought he was destined to do good things, accomplished more things than the two presidents before him, thinking of setting up strong navy and creating the Panama canal-Theodore did both!
Ellis Island-$75,000 to create Ellis Island, 450,000 people processed first year, first made out of pine but fire burnt it down so then they made it out of stone, closed in 1954
Thomas Edison-made lightbulb (actually made it better), born in Michigan, saved little boy from a runaway train and got to learn how to used the telegraph
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