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Justice Katy Austin. Chapter five two notes- Settling on the Great plains. Rail Roads moving west. 1862 crongress passed pacific bill railroad which granted public land and funds to build a transcontinental railroad. two groups were building the rail

pullman company strike - panic of 1893 and the depression 3,000 workers got laid off and wages were cut - workers took less than 6 dollars a week - 1894 the strike began - ARU started to boy cott the trains - Pullman hired strikebreakers and Presidne

7-1 drea and alex

Why did immigrants come to the US?
Better land, gold, new life, better jobs.

Where did immigrants come from?
Europe. china, japan, Mexico, west indies they settled in the east and southeast they came on steam ships across the atlantic o

during the panic of 1893 and the depression, 3000 workers got laid off, and wages were cut, workers took home less then 6 dollars a week, in 1894 the strike began, the aru started to boycott the trains, pullman hared strikebreakers and the president

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Gold rush- a lot of people came running during the gold rush and forced a lot of people out of their land.

1/4th of the cowboys were black. The cowboys barelly used their guns just to protect themselves and their cattle.

Buffalo suffered a big loss

Today Ryan gave his powerpoint presentation called Railroads and the Problems it Caused:

The Farmers:

• The farmers were the most affected by railroads
• The companies would tax farmers who had a railroad on their land
• They wre also mad because of the misuse

Today we continued with powepoint presentations.

Problems Farmers Faced in the Great Plains:

• Stores were far away so they had to everything they needed in one trip
• They mostly used river or spring water that was clean
• Easy to raise cattle because of plen

Ch. 6.2:

-What impact did railroads have on the US?

-Why were many people upset with the railroads?

-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?

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the farners were treated very unfairly because of the supier white man would get lan

Behold, the most powerful hurricane of 2010...hurricane Igor.

on tuesday, Igor made an appearence and tore up the Caribbean, heading for the Bermuda. In the process, it threatened to throw more rain on southern Mexico, which has been struggling with f

Today we watched a podcast made by one of Mr. Bruns' school news students about 9/11. Then we had blog discussions, also about 9/11. We talked about what happened that day, and also about al-Qaeda which is a radical Islamic/terrorist group led by Osa

Ch. 5.3:

-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
didn't always have everything they needed and when they bought things from a store they had to buy it all at once. Didn't have the technology we have now. work by yourself.
-Who were the Pop

Today we did more powerpoint presentations.

Ch. 5.1: Taylor Schaben

How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
-assimilation: a plan that was made to make Native Americans a part of white culture

Today we continued to present our presentations

Why were many people upset with the railroads?
didn't treat the chinese workers very well told stockholders it was going to be very expensive, employed thousands of chinese, overcharging was very big, rai

6-2 Hedgie

Farmers were highly effected by railroads by misuse of land grants, tax, expensiveness. Granger Law- a farmers association was formed by grangers. they fought against railroad companies, filed for laws in their intrest, past laws to get rid

Ok so today when we walked into class Mr. Bruns was playing Fireflies and then we had this big convorsation on songs...and then

6-2=Ryan Hedgelin- Farmers were effected by the railroads were effected this because railroads went through their land and