7-1Why did immigrants come to the U.S.?escape famine, religious/political persecution, land shortagesWhere did they come from ?Italy, germany, Russia, Ausria-Hungarychinease/japanese came from west coast (san fransisco)by 1920 more than 200,000 were
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Big business and laborAndrew Carnegie- first person to make a fortune buying stock. was poor/immigrant from scottland. sold steel company for a billion dollars. When sold steel business in 1901 was biggest steel producer in U.S.John D. Rockafeller- s
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Andrew Canegie was born on Nov. 25 1835, and died Aug. 11 1919. He was a Scottish industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur, and a major philanthropist. As a child he came to america as an immigrant. He built Carnegie steel company which emerged with
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When I hear Thomas Edison, I think of inventing the light bulb. But there was also other things he is known for. In Menlo Park, New Jersey Thomas Edison established the world’s first research laboratory. I guess what I thought of when I heard Thomas
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Ellis Island is by the Hudson River in New York. It is the location where many immigrants came to the americas from January 1, 1892, until November 12, 1954. The building replaced the state-run Castle Garden Immigration Depot (1855–1890) in Manhattan
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This was a title of a abolitionist newspaper. An abolitionist was a movement to try to end slavery. The newspaper was created by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. It had weekly issues in the town of Boston for a continuous 35 years. The first issue was
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Angel Island was an island off the coast of California. On this island was a facility that was designed to control immigrants from Asia and others coming into the country from the west. It was often referred to as the “Ellis Island of the West” and w
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I was attending a wedding today so i missed class. It looks like this is what we learned continuing presentations.Ch. 7-3 Politics in the Guilded AgeWhat was the political machine and what did they do for a city?- A group of people who ran the politi
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Still sick.In class they finished the questions of section 6-3 which I learned from other studentsWhat was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?-It came from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Used the term "survival of the fittest",
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missed class again, still sick and hating it.I got notes from people in class and they presented section 7-3Ch. 7-3 Politics in the Guilded AgeWhat was the political machine and what did they do for a city?-- Group of people who ran a political party
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Today Dajsa and Andrea presented on Chapter 7 Section 3. The key questions for this section are...What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?I learned that the political machine was an organized group that controlled the activitie
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