Today we continued to present on Chapter 10. We started out talking about Puerto Rico.US Control of Puerto RicoI learned the U.S. got Puerto Rico from the Spanish-American War by the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The Foraker Act ridded Puerto Rico
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Causes of the Spanish-American War*Destruction of American Property and investments in Cuba.*Concentration camps in Cuba- treatment of Cubans*The Yellow Press- Hearst and Pulizter- Sensationalism- made things look a lot worse than they really were*Si
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Today we finished up blogs.PhillipinesWe got it as a result of the Spanish American war. They liked us before the war because they thought we would do the same thing that we did with Cuba. This caused the Phillipine American war when we did not. We c
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today we continued blog talks and nelson started by talking about the phillipines. we got control of the phillipines through the phillipine american war. They thought we were going to do the same thing to them we did with cuba and thats why they like
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Daily discussionsUS control of the PhilippinesThe US got the Philippines from the Spanish-American war. Instead of a commonwealth, the Philippines was a territory. The US set up a democracy and built schools, roads, and other things to modernize the
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THANKSGIVING EVE!, nelson went and did the phillippines. then taylor. then cody wentPHILLIPPINES-US wanted to control because it was south east asiaMay 1, 1898 The Spanish American War started in the Philippines. The U.S. invaded Manilla Bay capturin
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China continued-Austinboxer rebellian-fought with hands-a lot of people joined to get rid of emporor,-main target at first was to get rid of missionaries.-worked their way to the capital city-begged queen to protectthem, but she lied-half died-finall
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We are finshing Chapter 10 blog discussions.PhilippinesGot the Philippines from the Spanish-American War. It was a territory at first instead of a commonwealth. We set up a democracy there, built roads and schools there, and other things to modernize
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US Control of Philippines- The Spanish American war was fought here and in cuba so we had them and made them into a territory instead of a common wealth and the people there wanted to be independent but we didn't do that for them. The Philipan Americ
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Today is Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve.We have an hour early out today so classes are shorter by just a wee bit. We are all uber excited about the four day weekend that we are having starting tomorrow.American problems with Mexico. In Latin America, th
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Whitney Gross was gone today, so Mr. Bruns went over the information we need to know.Governments were overthrown consistintly. This was not uncommon for Latin America. The Government hoards everything and everyone else in the country is poor, typical
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Alot of latin americas powerful people get overthrown. They had new leaders every so often. The kill them and try to overthrown them and it keeps repeating its self. Mexico had a leader Diez he liked the U.S. They didnt like us controling us through
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A Mexican ruler named Diez was a pro US guy. Many of the Mexico natives did not like him because of this. They thought if he liked US, the US ruled the country. The US did, they controlled the railroas and big businesses.Madaro took over for Diez and
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Nelson talked about the spanish-american war, about how it was about taking total control of mexico. 400 million dollars to fight in the Philipine wars, we put down the rebellion. In 1946 war we gave the philipines it's independence. they were a comm
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Next project will be on the 1920's and the 1930's. We will start this on Tuesday and Wednesday... the project will be in power point format, not blog discussion format. Chapter 9 and 10 quiz will take place at the same time.Latin American Govenments.
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