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September 20, 2011

We talked about the test that is tomorrow. And its over 911 and the population powerpoint. Information is found in recent daily summary. powerpoint, podcast, all found in daily summary. And find stuff under CWI page. Know the key terms. natural incre
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Tuesday, September 20th 2011

watched a video on Barack Obama's American Jobs Act. talked about stuff last week. note to self. look over "highlights of American Jobs Act". The debt ceiling crisis was they raised the debt ceiling. The project thing:
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Monday, September 19

The Origins of Progressivism1) Four Goals of Progressivisma) Vocab- progressive movement, prohibition, muckraker, scientific management, initiative, referendum, recalli) Progressive movement- aimed to return control of the government to the people, r
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Monday September 19th

today was a project day.AFL (American Federation of Labor) led by samuel gompers went on strike and got weekly saleries raised
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Monday, September 19

Section 7.3Key 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 i
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Monday, September 19. Daily Blog

Working on projects.I start at the battle of Wounded Knee.____________________________________________________________________________________________________The battle of Wounded Knee was basically the end of the Indian War.
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Monday, September 19

work on projects.Read my section again to refresh my memory.Notes:William Torrey Harris was an educational reformer.He saw public schools as an oppurtunity to move all classes of people into a civilized life.Harris promoted the idea of great uducator
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Monday September 19

-Skim/read Chapter, read you section, outline of Info/ key topics, put together powerpoint-4 sources, text book, wikipedia, and two others put in daily blog-key things and explain them on monday-go to history page and class summary for September 15 t
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Monday September 19

I worked on Chapter 8 Section 4This was mostly about americans leisure activitys. Coney island amusement park opened may of 1903.It let people take breaks from work. The Carpenters Union said that it was 8 hours for work 8 hours for rest and 8 for wh
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Monday, September 19

-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.was born in Scotland in 1836. He was poor and he moved to the U.S. when he was 12 years old in 1848. In six years he worked his way up to private secratary for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Thomas Scott gave him a chance t
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Monday Sept. 19

Work day.-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.Voting Restrictions:All southern states made new voting restrictions for African Americ
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Monday September 19

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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Monday, September 19

work daynotessome were deleated by user errorcame be cause fo famingreligious adn political persecutonmamny eropeans came in 1870 to 1920while waves fo europeans arrive ofn the east coastsmaller amounts of chinease came ot the west coastbetween 1851
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Monday september 19

Today is 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 a
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monday september 19

today was a project work day.chapter 9.4talks about william Howard Tafts ambivalent approach to progressive reform led to a split in the republican party andthe loss of the presidency to the democrats.payne aldrich tariff- is a compromize that only m
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