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10-11-12

today we started taking the test for chapters 5-8. And started talking about the next project.

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10.11.12

We started chapter 5-8 test today! I am taking mine Wednesday during study hall! We are spending our extra time studying.

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Thursday Oct. 11th, 2012.

 today we are taking our tests. i chose to take an essay test, which means i get to take it during 8th hour. i get time to study some more before the test.

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

We are taking the Chapter 9 Test today. We will be starting the Chapter 9, we are doing a group project. My group is the group of three. It is Me, Chelsea, and Brooke in the group.

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Thursday, october,11th 2012

were taking out tests today over the chapter, the chapter is very long and it took a long time to cover, so i am very nervous because i am pretty sure I forgot most of the information. chap. 9 what impact did the progressives to make our country bett

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Wednesday, October 10th (Assigned Blog)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

     Plessy versus Ferguson was an important court case that eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Homer Plessy was the defendant in the case. John Howard Ferguson was the Judge. The event that led to the case took place in Lo

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Assigned Blog Plessy vs. Ferguson

            Homer Plessy was born on March 17th, 1862, in New Orleans to Joseph Plessy and Rosa Debergue. Homer was a black born less than three mothers after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Times were tough and segregation and

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Family History

I found out that my family from my mother's side is from Denmark. My mother's father, Garry Kafton, is the son of Nels Kafton. Nels was born in Denmark on May 18, 1910, to Frands Peter Kafton. Frands Kafton was born on March 30, 1884 to Peter Jensen

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Assigned Blog: October 10, 2012

Plessy v. Ferguson


Is Louisiana's law mandating racial segregation on its trains an unconstitutional infringement on both the privileges and immunities and the equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment? The case was argued on Monday April 1

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Assigned Blog-Family History

I'm part German and part Irish. I was born in 1996. My mom's side of the family was from Germany. My dad's side of the family comes from Germany and Ireland. I like Irish people because they have cool acents, so thats why I'm proud to be part Irish.

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Assigned Blog. October 10, 2012

Elle Kloewer

Plessy vs. Ferguson

                Louisiana passed a law in 1890 called the “Separate Car Act”. The law required blacks and whites to ride in separate train cars. Hearing this, a group of blacks and some concerned white New Orleans’ form

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Assigned Blog Plessy vs. Ferguson

On June 7, 1892 Homer Plessy was jailed because he sat in the "whites" car on the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy was mostly white 7/8, but he had 1 African American ancestor so that made him 1/8 black. Under the Louisiana law he was considered black

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10-10-12 Assiend Blog # 5

My name is Jordan Barr. I live in Harlan, Iowa and go to school at HCHS. For U.S. History we got assigned a blog about our family history. I also learned that I am Slovak and German. So here is what I found out.

My parents are Darla and James. Darla’s

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Plessy Vs. Ferguson

June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was put into jail for sitting in a whites only train cart. This stirred up a lot of the racist controversy and eventually got African Americans equal rights.

Plessy looked a white man but because one of his ancestors was bla

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