Tuesday Music The Preacher and The Bear Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Katie Casey - Women's Movement Yankee Doodle Boy
Movies Snow White Three Musketeer
Wednesday-
- Baseball-1901 American League - 8 teams, 1st World Series - 1903
- Olympics-1900 in Paris - 1st Olympics America participated in. 1904 - St. Louis, USA - 1st American Olympics
Air conditioner, First Flight and plastic. Electric washing machine and first assembly line it was big because it made making things very fast and easy.
Thursday- Musicians- Opera, Blues, Classical.
Fashion- Cloth became more loose and underwear garments. The cloths were most comfortable. The dress enabled more room for movement and was more comfortable.
men- wore mostly jackets that went down to there knees and they would have hat and walking sticks.
Shoes people would wear high tops and the girls would wear women would wear heals.
Fads- Ballroom dances, movie theaters, and crossword puzzles. Signs in the movie theaters would have the not talking and sit down before the movie theaters.
The Black Sox scandal- 8 players from the white sox scandal threw the 1919 World Series to earn money from gamblers. Eight Men Out is a movie about the scandal.
Elections- William Taft was the 27th president and woodrow wilson became the 28th president from 1913 to the end of the decade. Average earnings is 22 cents. 200-400 dollars a year. men would live to about 47 and women would live to 50-51. Eggs were about 14 cents. Coffee was 15 cents a pound.
Inventions- Oreo was invented in 1912. First gas mack was invented.
Friday- Why do people people come to the US?
- Famin
- Land shortages
- Religious Beliefs
- War
- Indebt
- More opportunities for money and work.
Legal Immigration Statistics
- Mexico
- China
- India
- Philippines
- Dominican Republic
- Green Cards
- 2013- 779,929 people were natural citizens.
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