Today We did blog discusions
Zach Anderson:
Inventions of the 1800s
-The lightbulb
-The typewriter gave job oportunities to the women
-Phones.
Joe Anderson
Tweed
-Boss of the democratic machin in New york city
-he charged way too much money for simple things
- he stole about 200 million dollars.
-escaped prison one time and fled to Britain.
-Then he was captured and he died in prison.
Nathan Doonan
Hair Dryer
- dried their hair by putting a hose in an exhast of a vacum.
- They hair drier was really large and overheated really quickly.
Marea Ferry
Chief red Cloud
-Born in Nebraska
- His tribe and another came together to fight the U.S.
- He was invited to the white house he went to tell the president that he and his people didn't want to move to reservations.
- Then he and his tribe were removed to a reservation
-he kept on fighting
Joey Hansen
Elis Island
-Gate way to American for immigrants.
Andrew jones
Cherokees
-they hunted and gathered
-they were driven out by president Andrew Jackson on what is known as the Trail of Tears.
Dustin
Cowboys
-began in texas
-then the west began to grow with them
- they were like outlaws did cattle drives, they made about 25 dollars a day with a good person
- started putting up fences
-tried getting along the the native americans, Indains would scalp the Cowboys
- they would go to rodeo, pratice aming, and would go to shows and thing for entertainment.
Haily
Farming.
-diffilcult because everything was really expensive.
Shelby Powers
Women in Progresive Era
- the time were women started getting jobs.
-gave women the right to vote.
Cameron: tweed
conned new york out of 200 million dollars
Becca: Sitting bull
- was a war chief because he led his tribed to many victories
Amy
John rocketfeller
-was the founder of the standard oil company.
- he created the trust and monopolies
-the company was made iligal by the supreme court.
Philip Schrianko
Moving Wesward
-push pull factors.
-pull factors make a better living, cheaper land then back east
transportations, boats trains, busses railroads, or walking.
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