It's Friday, and we are still working on chapter ten blogs. Zack Harris did not have his blog finished on the Spanish-American war. Mr.Bruns talked about this war instead of waiting for Zack to get his finished.The war goals were to secure foal indep
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One of the causes of the Spanish American war was the destruction of American property in Cuba. General Valeriano Weyler was sent to Cuba to keep control of the country. many Cubans in the 1890s began to revolt. he put them into concentration camps.
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the Spanish American war was for the independance of Cuba, many people wanted to take it over, but the anti-imperilist said no taking it over, because they thought it would cost more money and lead to more wars. the revolution was started by Cubans,
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Posted by 5whitneyyy on November 20, 2009 at 1:30pm
The war goals of the U.S. were to secure full indepenedence for Cuba. But the Teller Amendment said U.S. would not take over Cuba when the war was over. When Cubans started revolution, U.S. declared neutrality. Cubans wanted U.S. support. Propaganda
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Today in CWI, we started off with giving our presentation. We did a video on climate change/global warming. I thought it was pretty funny, but not very many were laughing. I guess I just laugh at a lot of things. After our project, the class gave us
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Today in CWI Mr. Bruns told us he is going to postpone our canada map test until after thanksgiving break. We then began our presentations. My group went first. We did a video on Climate change and global warming. After we showed our viedo everyone s
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Posted by 5Nichole on November 20, 2009 at 11:57am
Test things we need to know ----Climate change, cause, examples, and what can be done to stop it.Kyoto potocall-- ipcc findings- what can be done to slow gwTaylor, Laurn, Courtney Videocauses-- people, cars, fossil fuel,effects-- disease from bugs tr
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Today in class Mr Bruns announced that the Canadian map test will be pushed back until after Thanksgiving Break. Group 1 started there presentations today. There presentation was a movie about Climate change and its Causes and Effects it has. The mai
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Today, we started our presentations. The first group was Taylor, Lauren, & Courtney. They talked about Climate Change. Then..Bri, DJ, Erin, and Jess did Climate Change PART 2.Taylor's group talked about Climate Change. Cilmate change is when there is
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so today in class we first talked about which map we would do next. i want to do latin america. vote latin america. chyeahhh..then we started our presentations. first up was courtney buman, taylor schwartz, and lauren larsen.these girls's presentatio
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Posted by 2courtneyb on November 20, 2009 at 11:38am
Today in CWI we talked about our blogs. Lauren's was about how there are a billion people starving. There was another story about a bomb sniffing dog that has been missing for over a year and they finally found it. There was a girl that went missing
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Today our projects were due, Courtney, Lauren and Taylor had a video and their topic tied in with ours, theres was like a weather report. Then we presented ours. Class got over right when it got to my turn in the presentation.
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Today we are going to start the presentations for the projects. Courtney lauren and taylors are about Effects, causes and ,places and what can be done to prevent global warming. Main causes are coal transportation and fossil fuels are some. Eliminate
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Posted by 5Nichole on November 20, 2009 at 11:17am
Today in Mr Bruns class first we went over our assigned blog #13.Blog #13Baby boy 13 months old, parents went to court to take the baby off the venterlater because the baby could not breath on his own and the only reason they went to court was that t
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Why do countries colonize?to make moneyto establish naval basesto get natural resourcesto uplift, civilize and Christianize people- President William McKinleyfor power and perstige throughout the worldgain land for possible colonizationopens markets
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What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?They set working hours so that people weren't over tired and couldn't work efficiently. 1970, Ocea is an orgonization the can go in and shut down any business or whatever if the qualities of th
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Today we started chapter 10 presentations. The federal reserve system was created in 1913, allows the us to control the amount of money in circulaton, it is still around today. Passed 17,18,19 admendmants. We take stuff because to make money and to g
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Posted by 5Shelbie on November 20, 2009 at 11:00am
Today Mr. Bruns continued with his power point. He talked about Underwood Tariff which cut tariffs for the first time in 1913 since the Civil War. Sixteenth amendment allowed graduated income tax. The Federal Reserve System strengthened banks, allowe
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Posted by 4Danielle on November 20, 2009 at 11:00am
chapter ten.why do countries colonize? natural resources, economic resources, make them stronger, and military bases, gain land for possible colonizations, opens markets throughout the world-trade, refueling stations.(hawaii was a good fueling statio
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A lot of change came about to help the common people. Four goals for progressivism is protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, and fostering efficiency. 1890 to 1920Workers Safety1. What did the progressives d
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