Week of October 24 - 28

Monday - WORK DAY

Tuesday - PRESENTATION

1880

  • Music
    • All live music
    • Symphonies
    • Orchestra
    • Small and Large Bands
  • Movies
    • Buffalo Dance
    • Blacksmith Scenes - watch blacksmiths make items
  • Sports
    • Baseball - MLB was around
      • Cincinnati Red Stockings
    • Football
      • Unsafe helmets
      • Different footballs
  • Fashion
    • Women
      • slim dress that weighed 15-20 lbs
      • Corsets
      • Hoops
    • Men wore suits and top hats
  • Fads
    • Roller Skating
      • Would skate in dresses and suits
  • Worlds Fairs
    • Louisville - 1883
    • New Orleans - 1884
    • Buffalo International Industrial Fair - 1889
  • Famous people
    • Billy the Kid - outlaw
    • Mark Twain - writer
    • Buffalo Bill Hickok - entertainer/lawman
  • Politics
    • Prohibition in Kansas - 1881
      • Started by Women
    • Wall Street - 1889
      • Stocks began 
    • North/South Dakota became States
    • James Garfield  was shot - 1880
      • Shot because he wanted to help working citizens
    • Grover Cleveland -1884
  • Facts
    • Statue of Liberty was brought over in 1885
    • Dr Pepper was created in Waco, Texas in 1885
    • Coca-Cola was created in 1886
    • Cattle market in South St. Paul - sold 336 cows on first day

Wednesday - PRESENTATION

Thursday - PRESENTATION

Friday - NO SCHOOL

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