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10/29

Women Equality

farm women: they worked in the house, but also helped plow, plant, and harvest.

city women: they were just house workers like cooking, cleaning, and keeping the house good looking.

  • jobs in the city paid a lot better
  • 25% of women worked in
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Monday October 29 2012

No blog discussion today. more presentations

Ch. 9.1

-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).

-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?

-Describe the impact aid o

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Monday, October 29 2012

Ch. 9.1

-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).

-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?

-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.

-What did th

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Monday October 29, 2012

Ch. 9.1

-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals). protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, Fostering efficiency.

-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics wer

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Monday Oct. 29th

Today we are continuing presentations. Katie, Chelsea and Brooke are going today.

Ch. 9.1

-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).

  • Amied to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life.
  • 4 goals:
  1. Protecting social we
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10/29/12

today we continued with the presentations and talked about who will go tomorrow.

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Monday October 29th 2012

brooks review game notes

25% of women worked in factories

graduating women out numbered the men graduates

but men were still paid twice as much as women

men accepted the women as second class and some still do today

women got all the second class jobs

many

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10.29.12

We presented today, our Chapter 9 Projects! No blog discussions.

Teddy Roosevelt was the Vice President and when William McKinley was shot and Teddy became president.

He grew up in a rich family in New York.

Trust Busting- breaking up monopolies.

Square

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Assigned Blog #5

This was a movement started by The Riteous Harmon Society around 1898-1901. The people of this secret group practice boxing and calisthenic ritual. All this group wanted to do is destroy the Qing Dynasty, which is the last imperial dynasty in China r

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Assigned Blog #5

 

U.S. TAKING OF HAWAII

 

 

Hawaii has always been important to the United States. American merchants often stopped there on their way over to China and East India since the 1790’s. Yankee missionaries created Christian school and churches on the islands

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Assigned Blog #5

Dollar Diplomacy


Dollar Diplomacy is the effort of the United States mainly under President William Taft to which it aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. The idea was th

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Assigned Blog #5

Teddy Roosevelt and the Nobel Peace Prize:

 


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(The Treaty of Portsmouth resolved the Russo-Japanese War)\

          Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his actions in helping the Russi

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Assigned blog #5

My blog is about the United States taking Hawaii. The main reason for the thought of Hawaii becoming part of the US is the sugar trade. The reason why this became such a big deal is because of the McKinley Tariff. This tariff made Hawaii hard to live

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