Today we got our assigned blogs. The test got moved to Wednesday. Then we did blog discussions.
Ch. 8.1:
-What advances in science and technology help solve urban problems?
Airplanes- the wright brothers made the first plane. orville dropped out of high school and worked at a newspaper shop. Then they had a bicycle shop. They started looking at birds at their wings and what not. 1902 tested one that worked. orville flew it for 12 seconds. later Wilbur flew it for 5 minutes. govt bought their first airplane. made an airplane with machine gun. 1906 got a patent for the airplane
skyscrapers- more popular when steel came out because it didnt break. started making buildings bigger
Ch. 8.2:
-How did education change in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
In the south the whites still didnt like them so they had to do a lot of things in secret like education. they would home school or send them to church buildings. if they got discovered the outcome would be violent. It was easier in the north even though there were sepeate schools for blacks and whites. the black schools were very awful. In mixed schools the blacks were taught after the whites.
Blacks wanted higher education. founded some universities with help of friedmans beareu and other groups
The poor kids went to one room school house. Mostly taught the older kids so they could teach the younger children. Sometimes had to house the teachers. werent allowed to get married becuase then they would have kids and couldnt teach. If you finished eighth grade it was really good. Taught basics.. 3 rs. Rich kids went to academies seperated by gender
Some colleges you only had to have a diploma, some you had to take a test. high schools were bigger so they had to have more classes. First medical and law schools were set up. Colleges for farming and engineering were set up. 40% high school 10% 4 years of college
Ch. 8.3:
-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?
voting restrictions- 1867-77 reconstruction act, johnson vitoed it wanted everything to stay the same, 15th ammendment- no one can be denied to vote because of race, whites wanted to change reconsstruction act, blacks moved to northern states, to vote blacks had to take a literacy test and had to answer harder questions than whites, whites could apply for grandfather thing, if grandfather could vote before reconstruction act, you could vote, pole tax kept poor from voting, kkk came about and intimidated the blacks
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
1892 some guy got in trouble because he sat in a white car. he appealed saying he didnt get equal treatment, ruled seperate but equal didnt violate constitution
Ch. 8.4:
-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
spectator sports- baseball and boxing were on the uprisein the 1800s. They became more of a business than a hobby. Baseball ripped off a game called rounders. Seperate league for blacks
mass production lead to more books, newpapers, magazines, etc. We were able to produce more newpapers bringind the price down
coney island by new york. small attraction that kept addong on. amusement park kept burning down, kept rebuilding. bicycling was first just for guys because they were so big and unsafe. 1885 smaller, safer bike came out, women liked bike because it gave them more freedom because they could travel. people liked tennis
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