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Today we had the whole class period to work on our projects. My part is about the poor living conditions for people in urban areas. American cities at that time were becoming overpopulated and people had two options of living. They could either move
Today in class we got with our partners and worked on our powerpoint projects. while we did this mr. bruns called over one group at a time to talk about their section with him
Today was a research day.
Horse and Buffalo:
-spanish brought horses to new mexico in 1598
-changed native americans way of life
-increased mobility led to more wars
-hunters ran into other hunters' ground
So today we tested over our chapter 5-2. our chapter is about people moving to the great plains. the 1st settlement was Jamestown. 1870 400 mil acres of forests and prairies into flourishing farms. 2nd 400 mil acres took only 30 years 1850 to 1871 ma
Today was a work day, I researched more of my topic.
Ellis Island
About 20 percent of the immigrants at Ellis Island were detained for a day or more before being inspected.
Only about 2 percent of the immigrants were denied entry.
The process of Ellis Is
Today was another work day. I continued to read my chapter and learned that because that so many people had migrated that living conditions had become very poor. Due to unsafe drinking water they got cholera and typhoid fever and there also was no sa
Today we researched our projects again, today is a work day.
LABOR UNIONS EMERGE
Northern wages were higher than Southern wages.
Long Hours and Danger
Workers had to do a lot of things by hand, they had long hours and worked seven days a week. Workers we
Today we decided to finish our presentations for our types of government. Ashlee, Mariah, and Kenzie finished off their skits from yesterday, then Taylor Cameron and Kevin did their powerpoint with monarchy. Monarcy is a country ruled bu kings and qu
Today in class we finshed a skit then now are going over Cameron Taylor, and Kevin's powerpoint on Monarchy. Monarchy is country ruled by kings and queens. Good powerpoint. Now they will do their skit. Took a long time to argue aabout who bows though
