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Work on project!

1) Skim entire chapter

2) Read your section

3) Make note of things you don't understand

4) Start oulining your section in daily blog

5) Find info from 3 other sources.

6) Put Powerpoint together

Today is a work day in class for our project on chapter 9.

I started reading chapter 9 section 1

--------------These are the main questions I have to answer about the section------------
                                Define the Progressive Era and why

Today was a work day! We have a 20 point quiz over our section on Monday.

Ch. 7.1:

Why did immigrants come to the US?

Where did immigrants come from?

What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?

Why did some people wa

Today were worked on our projects for the the whole period.

(Note to self: research more in 1917 how the billl was passed even though the presdient vetoed it).

My questions:

Why did immigrants come to the US?

Where did immigrants come from?

What prob

Ch. 6.3:

-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.
Born in Scotland, moved to the US in 1848. He invested in the stock market. He was one of the first industry moguls to make his own fortune. His steel business, Carnegie Steel Company, manufactured more steel

today we talked about our presentations, quiz over my groups chapter on monday.

my section is over tafts ambivalent approach to progressive reform led to a split in the republican party and the loss ofthe presidency to the democrats

worked on projects

The Emergence of Political Machines

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  • cities experienced rapid growth due to the government in the 19th centry
• The Political Machine
  • the political machine was an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in the

worked on project

Section 7-1

-most immigrants entered the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

-“birds of passage” are immigrants that temporarily immigrate to the US to earn money, and then (when they earned enough money) they would return to