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Wednesday, September 21st

Another work day. I took my little quiz. i knew most of the stuff. but then he gave me crap for not starting my presentation yet. so I decided to do my thing on that Prezi website. i got a bit done.
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Wednesday, September 21

Another Work day

about 20 percent of the imigrants at ellis island were detained for a day or more before being inspected

only about 2 percent fo those were sent home

the proccessing was adn ordeaal that could take five hours or more

the proccess

had to p

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Wednesday September 21

today is a work day

 

  • During the civil war the economy went into a huge slump.
    the government produced $500 million of money called greenback, but the problem was that they didn't have any gold to back it up so it become pretty much worhtless.
  • During and
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Wednesday, September 21

The Origins of Progressivism1) Four Goals of Progressivisma) Progressive Era-1890s to 1920, a time where people worked to reform the government by taking power away from the rich, white males and give it back to the common people, and they also tried
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Wednesday, September 21

Key questions:What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?Controlled the political party of a city. Offered services to citizens in return for political and financial support (basically gave things to people that voted in their pre
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Wednesday September 21

Today I started on my powerpoint.Mr. Bruns reminded us to read the whole chapter not just our own section.-4 sources, text book, wikipedia, and two others put in daily blog-go to history page and class summary for September 15 to see key topics and l
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Wednesday September 21

A National Network

  • 1856 - U.S. had railroads from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, 3 years later, there were tracks all the way to the Missouri River
  • Start of Civil War = 30,000 miles of tracks.  1890 - railroad tracks had reached 180,000 m
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Wednesday, September 21

Today were working on our projects again.  2 days till we present

 

  • notes
  • Booker T. Washington was born April 5th, 1856 and died November 14th, 1915
  • he was and educator and a reformer
  • First president of Tuskegee University
  • Most influential black speaker be
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wednesday september 21st

my section is 9-4
Taft Becomes President
-it is about William Howard Taft and in the presidental election Roosevelt did not run for reelection in 1908 so he picked hs secratary of war William Haward Taft to run for president against William Jennings br
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Wednesday September 21th

today was another work day.

Key questions
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?
They are organizations that people join. They were origionally formed to protect workers from being underpaid and overworked. Now a days they are used more to ma
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Wednesday, September 21

Chapter 6-A New Industrial Age

Section 1-The Expansion of Industry

Vocabulary:

Entrepeneur-A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a bussiness venture.

Incandescent-Giving off visible  light as a result of being heated.

Bessemer Process

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