November 1st- 4th

Monday- NO SCHOOL

Tuesday- Presentations

Wednesday- Gone

Thursday- Presentations

Friday- New Things

1900's

Music
- The Preacher and The Bear
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  - Katie Casey - Women's Movement
- Yankee Doodle Boy
Movies
- Snow White
- Three Musketeers
Sports
- Golf
  - Bobby Jones - champion
  - PGA established - 1901
- Tennis
  - Davis cup introduced - 1900
- Baseball
  - 1901 American League - 8 teams
  - 1st World Series - 1903
- Olympics
  - 1900 in Paris - 1st Olympics America participated in
  - 1904 - St. Louis, USA - 1st American Olympics
Fashion and Fads
- Men
  - Suits - casual
  - Dark colors
  - Specific coats for different occasions
  - Ties
  - Facial hair and parted hairline
- Women
  - Corset
  - Long dresses
  - No ankles
  - Tailored instead of frilly
  - Big Hats - pale was in fashion
  - Simple look - minimal makeup
  - Poofed hair
Inventions
- Air conditioning - Willis Carrier - 1902
- First Flight - Wright Brothers - 1903
- Plastic - Leo Hendrick Baekeland - 1905
- Electric Washing Machine - Alva J. Fisher - 1907
- Assembly Line Production - Henry Ford - 1908
Celebrities
- Babe Ruth - baseball
- Mark Twain - Author
- Wright Brothers - Airplane
- Henry Ford - Cars
- Theodore Roosevelt - President
- William McKinley - President
Progressive Movement - 1900-1917
- Improve Society
- Came after populists
- Attempted to
  - Regulate child labor
  - Prohibition
  - Regulate Trusts
  - Worked to rid government of corruption
Presidents
- William McKinley
  - Defeated William Jennings Bryan
  - Assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz
- Theodore Roosevelt
  - Youngest man to become president - 42
  - 1901 after assassination
Prices
- Average size of a family was about 5 people
- Average income per family - $827.19
- Average money for food - $326.90
- Averages money spent per year per family - $768.54

1910's

Music
- Operas
- Blues
- Classical
- Pop
- Jazz
- Ragtime
Fashion
- Women
  - Loose fitting
  - Corsets going away
  - More comfortable
  - Hats were all the rage
- Men
  - Lounge Suits
  - Walking sticks
  - Tall Hats
  - Cuffed Pant legs
- Shoes
  - Interesting shoe choices
Fads
- Ballroom Dances
- Movie Theaters
- Crosswords
Sports
- Golf- US Open
  - Won by Alex Smith
- Boxing
  - Jack Johnson
- Baseball
  - Philadelphia Athletics
  - Black Sox Scandal
    - Chicago white Sox Threw the 1919 World series to earn money from gamblers
Elections
- William Taft - 1909-1913
- Woodrow Wilson -1913- End of the Decade
Living Wage
- Average White Male wage -
  - 22 cents per day
  - $200- $400 dollars per year
- Male Life Expectancy - 47 years old
- Women Life Expectancy- 50-51 years old
  - Food
    - 14 Cents - Eggs
    - 15 Cents - Coffee Pound
    - Meat 10 and 40 Cents
Inventions
- Oreos in 1912
- Blood Bank in 1917
- Gas Masks
- Boy Scouts
- Stainless Steels in 1913
- Motorized motor cameras in 1912
WWI
- World to End all wars - NOT
- "He kept us out of war"
- April 6th 1917 when we started in WWI
  - Facts
    - Liberty Everything
    - Many men left so women assumed the male role
  - Pigeons are important messengers
- Flanders Poppy Fields
  - Canadian Military Wrote
  - For every soldier that died a poppy grew legend goes

Mr. Brun's Presentation

Why do immigrants come to the US?
- Famine
- Land shortages
- Religious or political persecution
- War
- In debt or in trouble
- To Achieve The American Dream
  - Homestead act (farming), mining, working on the railroad, cattle ranching, factory work
- Reunite with family
- "Streets paved with gold"
- 2013 - 990,553 people are granted lawful permanent residence in the United States
- "Green Cards"
- Top Countries of Origin are
  - Mexico
  - China
  - India
  - Philippines
  - Dominican Republic
- A total of 779.929 people become naturalized U.S. citizen
  - Mexico
  - India
  - Philippines
  - Dominican Republic
  - China
- Residents becoming naturalized citizens in 2013 had spent a median of seven years in "green card" status

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