Why did imperialism and colonization come about and why did the US stay isolationist until the early 1900's?Imperialism is when big countries take smaller countries. Countries colonized to get natural resources, money, land, power, refeuling stations
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-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?Prior to the progressive era political machines controlled the cities. They tried to take the
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Today in class we went over blog topics. It was Whitney's turn, but she wasn't here so Mr. Bruns gave us the information. I learned that Latin American governments were not very stable. They were overthrown on a daily basis. The government would hord
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The last group for presentations was supposed to go but when the put their little zip drive thingy in nothing was on it. So we did free choice blog discussion again. Maddie talked about how the people who fact checked Sarah Palin's new book weren't b
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Today in class I presented my Teddy Roosevelt blog. Other people also presented too. From this I learned that the Treaty of Portsmouth gave Japan the control of some of the land from Russia. This land also had a lot of natural resources. The treaty a
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Today in class we went over blog topics. I learned that the Open Door notes were a series of policy statements. They were sent to several imperialist nations. It allowed equal trading rights in china. It guaranteed the independence of China. The Fora
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Today in class we had dicussions about the creeper stories, Sarah Palin's Newsweek Cover, and President Obama's approval. President Obama is a joke trying to be a friend of everyones, but is becoming a enemy of all. This is a quote I took form Call o
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We supposed to start right up with our presentations today but the computers were being difficult. So we did our free choice blog discussion. One of the stories was about a couple that was giving US information to the Cuban government. Another story
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