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Wednesday October 3rd

The executive branch:

  • Two consuls vs one president
  • 1 year term vs 4 year term

Judiciary

  • 8 judges
  • 1 year term by the Centuriate Assembly
  • Two oversee civil and criminal courts (others govern provinces)


Legislative

  • Senate
    • High social and economic status
    • serve for
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Rome

It was built on 7 rolling hills around the Tiber River, near the center of the Italian peninsula.

It is the midway point between the Alps and Italy’s southern tip

From 1000 to 500 BC, three groups inhabited the region and fought for control of it.

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10/3/12

The invention of the light bulb

Before the light bulb people used lamps, Lamps, candles, and torches. The lamps had used lamp oil. Lamp oil usually burns paraffin; paraffin is petroleum that comes from oil wells. Before 1859 lamps were made out of ani

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wedsday october 3rd, 2012

equal pay = equal rights between men and women... at least in the work feild

Mary Harris Jones- founder of women's working rights

employers did not want unions to form, but they could not stop the union groups

because of labor unions, people are getting

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Wednesday, October 3rd

2-3 pages double spaced 12 font 4 paragraphs

Executive Branch

-2 consuls vs. 1 President

-1 year term vs. 4 year term

Legislative

-Senate

--High social and economic status

--Serve for life

--Advises consuls

-Centuriate Assembly

--Soldiers only

--Chose consuls

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tuesday october 2, 2012

i was at a live stock judging contest.

labor unions- early labor organization used to maintain a price structure for the working class

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Tuesday Oct. 2 (Notes- Ancient Rome)

Kendra let me copy her notes for today because I was gone for Special Olympics.

Rome

Geography

  • Built on 7 rolling hills around the Tiber River, near the center of the Italian Peninsula.
  • It is the midway point between the Alps and Italy’s southern tip

Firs

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10/2/12

Ch. 7.2

Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?

Because many people came there from overseas to work, there were plenty of jobs because of new technology, also new technology got rid of some farming jobs so they came to the

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Tuesday, October 2.

The Cotton Gin

Some inventions from the 1800’s are not up to par, but if you want to read the most riveting story of your life, this is a good place to start. If not i would recommend reading this great story about one of the most productive invention

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Labor Unions

  • Led efforts against child labor, health benefits, and provide aid for people who are injured or retired
  • Began in late 19th century
  • Didn't work out first time because lack of leadership, bad organization, and arguments over goals
  • Success of labor unions
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Cotton Gin

Some inventions from the 1800’s are not up to par, but if you want to read the most riveting story of your life, this is a good place to start. If not i would recommend reading this great story about one of the most productive invention

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Tuesday October 2, 2012

Notes that I have done today

  •                 First ride was ice slide looked like half pipes
  •                 First ride was made of slick ice – fast ride all the way to the bottom of the hill
  •                 In 17th century then instead of ice they used
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Tuesday, Oct. 2nd

I had the Housings in the cities.

The immigration caused the cities to become very crowded. More people went to bigger cities for work and business. The houses got full, fast. Families lived out on the streets. Streets were full of trash and waste. Th

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10/2/12

my assigned blog is over the railroad.

-in 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies

-it linked the railroad from the east to the west.

-the two companys "raced" towards eachother for the next

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Tuesday, Ocotber 2

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American who led the enormous expansions of the steel industry in the late 19th century. Andrew Carnegie was born November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He died on August 11, 1919 in Shadow Brook, Massachusetts. He

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