Today in class we did blog discussions 7-3 went first and talked about Boss Tweed and how he was all about himself and making money, pendleton civil service act was a test to prove how dedicated the worker was, white rich males dominated and athe common people started to fight back against it,
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Plessey vs Ferguson was half black and half white, he was free so he thought he could sit on a train cart with whites and the judge said that he can't seperate and unequal treatments for whites and blacks, Brooklyn Bridge buildin of the bridge was stop on January 3rd and years later it got finished, jefferson couldn't come because he was paralyzed from a disease that was from dust particles there was a theory that the bridge was gonna collapse and 27 people died from it, Jim Crow Laws were supposed to give black people more rights and police wouldn't help them out for anything like doctor's showing up late and police didn't look for people who stole the black people's items, if africans didnt follow the rules the white people would hang them in a tree, 1400 blacks died from being burned and hung, black people had to live in their own neighbors, kkk was a group that killed many blacks, they would burn a cross and dance around it at meetings, many fights broke out between blacks and whites, blacks couldnt vote until after the civil war which was in 1966, coney island which is an amusement park in new york sick developed in 1903 which was one of the first amusment park it was the biggest and famous, bikes that only men could ride and the tires were solid rubber, later they made a bike that was a safety bike that had smaller tires and had air in them, then made lower bikes for women, drank coca cola and quit drinking water
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