Monday (10-31-16)- No School (Happy Halloween)
Tuesday (11-1-16)- Voted and tallied out votes.
1890's Continue-
Fads- Board Games- More free time, for education and religion purposes. Bikes- Regular Bikes like our.
Inventions- Tractors
Thomas Edison- Light bulb
Fredrick Jackson- Frontier theses of American History
Music- classical- Mahler- Forth they get more into jazz and ragtime. Live Jazz bands (Sousas's band really big band).
Wednesday (11-2-16)- Missed school got notes from chloe.
1900's-
Fashion- women- revolved around more of the English people... corsets (the hour shape glass).. loved the big hair.. fashion was explosive at that time.. Men: mustaches were in... hats were in style.. suites... Children: girls had neckline.. and shorter dresses... people tried corrupting girls legs by putting stuff on them to keep them small.. boys went for more of the sailor outfit look..
Summer Olympics: sports became more popular.. first summer one was in Paris, France... college sports... women basketball... baseball... women's tennis.. women still had to wear dresses during sports...
Famous people- Walt Disney starting taking off with his creation of Micky Mouse... Wright Brothers for creating the first plane... Oscar Wilde was a famous book writer.. selfish giant was a famous children book.... Roosevelt (President)
Fads- The teddy bear was invented at that time.. automobiles were huge... little toy models of cars... ping pong was popular...
Inventions- Another version of the escalator .... vacuum cleaner.. razer for shaving... radio... air conditioner.. polygraph which would tell you if someone was lying by poking them with a needle and when they talked it would either spike up and down or stay the same.. reinvention of a tractor.. washer machine.. helicopters... color photographs.. gun silencer..
World Fairs- Pan- American exposition... May 1, 1901... Buffalo, New York... $7 million dollars... was held to celebrate how far america... President McKinley assassination during this... St. Louis world fair... April 30th-December 1st,,, 1904... 1,500 buildings... 1,200 acres... held an Olympic game
Elections- William McKinley- 1896-1900... his second term for presidency he was assassinated.. Theodore Roosevelt.. 1901-1904-1908.. William H. Taft.. 1908-1912
Civil Rights Movements- still had a long ways to go in the 1900's... still a lot of segregation... lot of movements trying to help... Jazz music made African Americans feel better.. NAACP was an association for African Americans.. people were arrested for being gay and having relationships with same sex.. a lot of men were arrested
Modle T- made by Ford.
1st section of the underground subway in New York.
Movies- Storytelling- not just motion
short 5-8 minutes long all black and light and they were silent. "one-reelers" one shot. (Nickelodeon era) pay a nickle to watch and that's why nickle is in the name Nickelodeon.
Thursday (11-3-16)- Continue Presentations
1910-
Music Ragtime was slowly fading out and rap and jazz were famous. By the light of the silvery moon. The first time they say the National anthem at a sporting event.
Movie- 1914 The wizard of oz was presented. 1915 Alice in Wonderland. 1916 Sherlock Homes. 1917 Jack and the bean stock.
Sports- Baseball, boxing, tennis, golf, horseback racing, and hockey. 1911 first indie 500 car race. 1912 fen way ark became one of the first baseball. Jesse Owens first African American runner/sprinter. Jackie Robinson 1919 broke the color barrier for baseball. 1919 Chicago white sox scandal lost on purpose to get money. 1919 green bay packers established as a team. 1914 babe Ruth became a powerful and famous player.
Inventions- zipper, Oreo cookie, stainless steel, crossword puzzle, pop-up toaster, lifesavers, military tank, first air conditioner, gas mask, first bra and escalators.
Henry Ford- Assembly line
Wright Brothers- First Flight School lasted 80 days
William Taft- 27th president enforced antitrust laws.
Albert Einstein
1900's-
Fashion- women- revolved around more of the English people... corsets (the hour shape glass).. loved the big hair.. fashion was explosive at that time.. Men: mustaches were in... hats were in style.. suites... Children: girls had neckline.. and shorter dresses... people tried corrupting girls legs by putting stuff on them to keep them small.. boys went for more of the sailor outfit look..
Summer Olympics: sports became more popular.. first summer one was in Paris, France... college sports... women basketball... baseball... women's tennis.. women still had to wear dresses during sports...
Famous people- Walt Disney starting taking off with his creation of Micky Mouse... Wright Brothers for creating the first plane... Oscar Wilde was a famous book writer.. selfish giant was a famous children book.... Roosevelt (President)
Fads- The teddy bear was invented at that time.. automobiles were huge... little toy models of cars... ping pong was popular...
Inventions- Another version of the escalator .... vacuum cleaner.. razer for shaving... radio... air conditioner.. polygraph which would tell you if someone was lying by poking them with a needle and when they talked it would either spike up and down or stay the same.. reinvention of a tractor.. washer machine.. helicopters... color photographs.. gun silencer..
World Fairs- Pan- American exposition... May 1, 1901... Buffalo, New York... $7 million dollars... was held to celebrate how far america... President McKinley assassination during this... St. Louis world fair... April 30th-December 1st,,, 1904... 1,500 buildings... 1,200 acres... held an Olympic game
Elections- William McKinley- 1896-1900... his second term for presidency he was assassinated.. Theodore Roosevelt.. 1901-1904-1908.. William H. Taft.. 1908-1912
Civil Rights Movements- still had a long ways to go in the 1900's... still a lot of segregation... lot of movements trying to help... Jazz music made African Americans feel better.. NAACP was an association for African Americans.. people were arrested for being gay and having relationships with same sex.. a lot of men were arrested
Friday (11-4-16)
Mr. Bruns talks about semester test and explains how it is set up and gives up assignment.
Chapter 7- Immigration and Urbanization (1870-1920)
People saw the statue of liberty and thought of freedom.
1.) Why did immigrants come to the US?
2.) Where did immigrants come from?
3.) What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here (Ellis/Angel Island)?
4.) Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?
1.)- Push-Pull Factors. Pushing you out of your country- Famine, land shortages, religious or political persecution, war, in debt or in trouble.
Pull Factors- More opportunities- $$- The American Dream be payed with gold. (Farming, homestead act, mining, working on the railroad, cattle ranching, factory work, reunite with family, "Streets paved with gold".
Legal immigration Statistics-
2013- 990, 553 people that are granted lawful permanent residence in the United States. "Green Cards"- but they expire and they stay even when they expired.
The top countries are origin are: Mexico, china, India, Philippines, and Dominican Republic.
2013- A total of 779,929 people become naturalized U.S citizens- you would have to take a test to become naturalized citizens.
Residents becoming naturalized citizens in 2013 had spent a median of seven years in "green cards" status.
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