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In the beginning of class we went over the Europe map. We really need to start studying this for the test which will be two weeks away. Look over the section we went over today on the Europe map for tomorrow. The rest of the class we period we discus

What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?
The housing in tennet apartments were in a bad state in the slums with tons of people in them, they would dump garbage in the ventilation and then board the windows up because the

Presentations again. I'll finally do mine. Test next Monday, so there's no assigned blog this week.

Notes:

5-1: Cultures Clash on the Prairie

-Plains Indians

-lived in Great Plains

-4 importand tribes: Dakota, Cheyenne, Sioux, and Comanche

-Buffalo were im

still doing powerpoint presentations. its really takin a while.

starting off today with 7-2.

recap-why immigrants came to america....yeah. so now, urban issues.

what problems did cities face due to rapid population increase?

transportation problems, litt

Today, in class, we got on the computer and continued our powerpoint presentations today. Dena went first, and she talked about the housing issues they havd in crowded cities, such as NYC. People would put in windows to create more ventilation, only

Today we are blogging about others presentations. Later in the week we will do blog discussions.

Ch. 7.2

Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?

What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?
-Garbage w

Today in U.S History we are presenting our group project. There is no blog assignment this week. And our Chapter 5-8 and 9-11 Test is on Monday.

Ch. 7.2

-What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population? Housing- bought a house or

we are continuing our powerpoints, close to done, i might go today. no blog assignment. tonight is jv game against carrol. excited to play and its at home.

7-2

-Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
americanization movement

Today, we started the hour by listening to Manic Monday. The name says it all...... Now we are gonna continue our project chapter 7 started. We'll start with Dena about Urban Problems.

Ch. 7.2

Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early

today we did presentations again

Ch. 7.2
immigration and urbanization

Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
immigrations came to get away from the potatoe famine

job shortages

to be free

to escape discrimination

urbanization hap

No blog assignment this week, test on monday, will have blog dicussion tomorrow and over our assigned blog.

5-1

-Cultures Clash on the Prairie
- Plains Indians lived in Great Plains

- 4 important ones, Dakota, Cheyennye, Sioux, and Comanche
- Buffalo very

7-2 Urban Problems

There were cramped rooms where people lived, these were very crowded, it was unsanitary, government passed laws setting standards for ventilatio and sanitation. Many forms of transportation were created during the 19th century, such

7-2 Housing was a big issue, because people were living in cramped apartments and they couldn't get rid of garbage, and lots of vermin. Street cars came around and mass transit became kind of a big deal. people used it to get everywhere. Water was pr

we are going to have a test monday mr bruns went over our blog.

7.3 gilded age boss tweed organizsed the building ball park. it took the media to bring him down. he was aressted.

the pendelton civil servive act required people to take test before they

talked bout how are first presentations went

blog disscuision

a political machine

depend on the city a politcal part y a buliding were they ran day to day bases on there party

boss tweed

was a chair maker in 1870 became comisner buy something for 5 and wo

Today we talked about how presenations went overall. He told us the top five things that we could work on. Short bullets, don't read off the slides, have TONS of pictures, have good stage presence, know how to do your sources correctly. We also talke

Blog disscussion

1) there was alot of corruption in the gov't

• kickback system
• granting favors to big business
• spoils system
• political boss hires/fired police
• boss William Marcy Tweed
• pendleton civial service act-was used to prove the worth of people applyin

Today in class Mr. Bruns talked about our presentations and how to make them better the next time we do it. He said to use lots of pictures, no your information and dont read off your bullets, dont have long bullets, have short ones. He also said to