October 4-9

Monday- went over presentation improvements #2 

talked about tour new project

by wednessday we have to talked to our family and find out whtch option we are doing

went over 7.1 slide

compter died

Ch. 7.1:

Why did immigrants come to the US?

Where did immigrants come from?

What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?

Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?

tuesday-

push-pull factors

new opportunity

2013-779,929 naturalized citizens in the U.S

old-northwestern Europe

new-southern Europe

lots of immigrants went through Ellis island

left their own country to help their own family

 back then $30- today $800 to come to america as a immigrant

1st class-didn't have to go to Ellis Island

watch titanic clip

inspected at Ellis island

1st class were inspected on the ship

Wednesday-

family history project

talk about family history

ellis island

when they came across

how they came  across 

watched videos

thursday-

talked about what the other that weren't  doing the family project, and how to present there topics

Jack ruby-killed lee hardy Oswald

thuesday-

talked about how fire spread so rapidly and watch some videos on that ere

friday-

they made building farther apart

made it so that there had to be 1 toilet per 20 people

they had to have fire escapes

electric street cars

Gas power cars in america

1895-300 cars

1905-18,000 cars

1910-459,000 cars

1914-1,700,000 cars

subway-new York city-1904

airplanes-1903-wright brothers

lots of crime because everyone war poor

and "gang" wars

solutions-

organized police, full time employees of the city

1838 Boston had a full time police force

1911 fingerprints are the first accepted U.S. courts by means of identification

fires-

made building out of more fire resistant materials

full time paid firefighters

poverty-

labor unions

shorter hours 

better pay

child labor laws

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