Today we got our assigned blog 5, we are to pick an American Invention and describe how it affected out country, who invented it, etc.
We went over more of our discussions in class today: our 2nd assigned blog, and family history
-sports on up rise, racial seg. during sports
- blacks trouble with going to schools, everything was suppose to be equal, but they weren’t
- if blacks wanted a higher education they would have to teach themselves
- farm kids shared almost everything at school, teacher taught older kids instead of younger, so older could teach younger, weren’t allowed to get married, so couldn’t have kids, many didn’t past 8th grade, taught only the basics, (three Rs), rich sent to academies, and sep. by gender
- schools set up kinda like a factory, an assembly line
- take test to get into school, high schools got bigger, and more classes to take, 40% graduated from high school, and 10% finished 4 years of college
- mass production increased, so more books, newspapers, etc. (Yellow Press),
- (plessy) segregation set ok..
-Coney Island, amusement park, filled with trash, and burning down, kept rebuilding, bikes only for guys at first, 1885..safer bikes, women could use it then
- sky scrapers, big when steel became more widely known, bigger buildings, less space, flat iron building,
- 15th admendment,
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