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Daily Blog Post : October 14th, 2010

aiding the poor- people werent finding jobs and werent getting paid enough, social gospel movement- preached salvation through the service to the poor, made working conditions better, house settlements-communities ceters that proviede assistance to i

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today we are starting our preseations.

workmens compensions

hours change

child labor laws

minmun wages

roosevlt did not want monoplies to go away

1909 1/3 of the oil companys were controled by teh same person.

muckrakers talked to teh paper

roseveltset aside

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daily blog

today we did our presentations and katy got sick she went to the bathroom cuz she had to throw up uhhhhh...... and we bloged also
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thursday 14, 2010

muckrakers

muckrakers were people who wrote for popular magazines about the injustices of the government, mainly focused on exposing crime and corruption, monopoly of standard oil, cattle, meat packing, patent medicines, child labor, working condition

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Panama Canal

Panama Canal is a 48 mile long ship canal. It connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It is very key to trade. It was built from 1904-1914. The annual traffic went from 1,000 to about 14,700. During the first attempt to construct a canal 22,000 peo

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wednesday, october 13

today we had a work day on our assigned blogs. i thought id take notes since its supposed to be kind of like a project... and i have to write about two different things

open door policy

-feared China would become colonies shutting out american traders

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Wednesday October 13

Today I went to Mrs. Greer to try to figure out technical difficulties with my groups video, then Mrs. Rauterkus's to see if that would work, but it did not. So I am very worried on how I am going to get this video to work???????

8Madison

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Tuesday, October 12

Today, Jake Daeges and Scott Schulte presented their projects:

Worker Safety/Conditions

  • The number of child workers in factories rose
  • Most people sent their children to work because they felt that children were a part of the family economy
  • Adult wages we
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Wednesday, October 13.

i put the wrong dates on yesterday and mondays blogs but they are all there...umm today is a work day. i am working on the panama canal topic. so ya i dont wanna waste time writing this...byyyyyeeeee.
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