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Today we will finish our notes on the last assigned blogs and begin working on our powerpoints
105-1910. It was led by W.E.B du bois and he felt that blacks should have full political, civil, and social rights. The niagra movement was the forerunner of Naacp Nationl Association for the advancement of colored people. In 1905 29 blacks went to t
The Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws in the United States between 1876 and 1965. They were racial segregation laws that the Southern states passed to separate black and white in public and private facilities. Segregation is the separation of p
In the early 1900's quite a few people went to school it started at 7.6 million in 1871. By 1920 it was up to 21.6 million, which is quite a jump. They offered a lot of the same courses such as science, social studies, vocational classes.
One thing th
The spread of mass culture
To summerize the first part talks about mass circulation of newspapers an it says by 1898 the circulation of the New York World an the New York Morning Journal reached a high of one million copies a day in 1898. Joseph Pulit
Grover Cleveland was elected president in 1884. It was the first time in 28 years that Democrats had won an election. Around this time businesses in the U.S. wanted the government to raise tariffs to protect them from foreign competition, but Democra
Most African Americans lived in the South but by 1900 African Americans were living in t
High school education was a lot different than it is now. For the poor school was cramped and crowded with many kids and one teacher. If you didn't have the money to send your kids to a fancy acadamy then your child only learned the basics, reading,
To many late 19th century Americans, he personified public corruption. In the late 1860s, William M. Tweed was the New York City's political boss. His headquarters, located on East 14th Street, was known as Tammany Hall. He wore a diamond, orchestrat
About 8,500 pounds of ground beef that may of been contaminated with E. coli has been recalled at Cargill Meat Solutions Corp after two people in Maine and one in New York, were idenified of becoming ill from a strain of E. coli. The USDA believes ce
Plessy vs. Ferguson
After the Civil War, the southern state governments began passing the Jim Crow laws which prohibited the newly freed African Americans from using the same public places as whites. In 1880, Lousiana passed Act 111 that required blac
This sunday there was one of the States best airshows at the Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue Nebraska. This year there was 13 different performances by different people. The pilots came from any where in America and were all profesional volunteers
The Niagara Movement
The Niagara Movement, a black civil rights organization, was created during the same time African Americans were starting to seek higher education. Founded in 1905 by W. E. B. Du Bois, it insists that blacks should seek a liberal
The bridge was intitally supposed to be designed by John Roebling but he got sick with tetnus because of the amputation of his foot and later died. Washington, his son, was put in charge of building the Bridge. Washington became paralyzed because of
Louis Sullivan built one of the first skyscrapers. The Wainwright Building was ten stories and made of brick, it was named after Ellis Wainwright who financed the project. The Wainwright Building is located in St. Louis and was finsihshed in 1891.
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Before the Civil War, a higher education for African Americans didn’t exist. Very few who did get an education studied in informal and sometimes hostile environments. If some blacks wanted a higher education,they were forced to teach themselves, and
