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october 19 2010

made people face off in elections

william s uren wanted yto hsave a sercet ballet

natural disaters played big parts in cith government social justice

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Daily Blog Post - October 19th, 2010

Reforming elections: initiative: bill orginated by the people rather than the lawmakers, referendum: a vote on the initiative, recall: enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election before th

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Tues. Oct. 19

reforming government was also called reinvention, labels on drugs didnt have to stay how much was in it just that it is in there , jane adams tried to stand out and say that they can do more than just sit at home and clean, black and white settlement

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Tuesday October 19th

*Worker Safety/conditions

*Reforming elections

*Segregation- 13th ammenemnt abolshed slavery completly. 14- allow them to be citizens. 15th allowed black males to vote (not progressive). Segregation involved law, private action in transportation, publ

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tuesday october 19, 2010

reforming election

initiative: bill originated by the people rather than the lawmakers, referendum: a vote on the initiative, recall: enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions by forcing them to face another election before end

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Tuesday, October 19th

Today Katy did her presentation.

-Initiative

-Secret Ballot

-Natural disasters

- KNOCKED DOWN Galveston Texas

- Rebuild town

-City council to remake laws

-Find managers with experience

-250 cities around 1925

Then my group went.

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Tuesday, October 19

Muckrakers

  • Muckrakers were people who wrote for popular magazines about the injustices of the government
  • Mainly focused on exposing crime an corruption
  • relegations of public muckrakiong led to public outcry, an investigations
  • Upton Sinclair-published a b
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Tuesday, October 19

.Worker Safety/conditions- long hours horrible conditions which made strikes union membership. potential violence prgresstives urged labor unions. they got workers compensation.l their hours changed form long to short. child lavor laws passed. they g

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Blog #7 Woodrow Wilson's Accomplishments Part 2

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Women's Suffrage

While President Wilson pushed for reform of trusts, tariffs, and banking, women were determined to push harder for the right to vote. In 1910, women had federal voting rights only in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Washington, and Idaho. Suf

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Assigned Web Log

This week's web log was given to us via a number from Mr. Bruns. I got #16, which was 'Ruling the Phillipines.' Honestly, I have no clue what this means, so here is my wing-age. These are their stories.

Philippine-American War- Taking place from 1899-

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Taft's Presidential Accomplishments

William Howard Taft was our great nation's twenty seventh president. Taft didn't do much to expand Roosevelt's reforms. He mostly secured them and reinforced them. I think one of his greater achievements was breaking up over ninety monopolies during
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Effects of the Spanish-American War

The Spanish-American War ended on August 12th, 1898, but it officially ended on October 1st, 1898, with the Treaty of Paris (signed and completed on December 12th).


The Treaty of Paris not only ended the war, it marked the end of the Spanish empire an

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Causes of the Spanish-American War

The feud between the US and Spain all began when Cuba was still apart of Spain. In 1854, it was brought up to America to buy Cuba, but Spain did not like that idea. They said they would rather see Cuba sunk to the bottom of the ocean, but the US stil
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Assigned Blog #7

Rosie Benjamin is one of 1.3 million people in Haiti's refugee camps. There are 1,200 people crammed into 300 tents. In the refugee camps the people are on their own, the only thing they get from the government is a delivery of water every once in a
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Planning to Attack New York.

Four people were cnovicted of planning to attack New York. All four people where males that tried to blow up and shoot a military aircraft. The jury heard a discussion of the four men plotting the attack and then found them guilty. About 60 miles nor

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