During reconstruction African Americans exercised newly won political and social rights. They faced violent and hostile oppostion from whites. For ten years after reconstruction in 1877, African Americans in the south continued to vote and sometimes
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This section is about the challenges with urbanization. There was many immagrants that started to come to the U.S. may it have been for adventure, religious freedoms, criminal freedoms, and many other reasons. The thing that stood out to me in theis
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People believed education in children was a key to security and a better social status. Although I do agree with that to some extent, I still think its more about the actual education and children. Even though things are different now from the late 1
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More debate. We talked about the death penalty. Republicans think that the death penalty is completely necessary and effective for harsher crimes. The Democrats think that if we kill those people then we're just as bad as them. I don't agree with thi
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In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was signed into law. Chinese immigrants started to merge to America in the late 1840's. It was the first restriction on free immigration in U.S. History. The Chinese Exclusion Act made Chinese immigrants permanent a
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David Weekley, 58,A regular Reverend from Portland, Oregon gives a sermon of a lifetime. The sermon included that the Rev. was transgendered. He said the speech took more than a half century to write. This must have meant alot, considering it took hi
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Today we started our presentations, Rachel went first. Her section was about Culturization and Beliefes of Native Americans. The Native Americans believed that one great spirit controlled everything. The men in their tribes would fight in battles, hu
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Today was the last day to work on our projects in class. I started doing the section of my powerpoint over education for immigrants and the changes in universities. I am using the google powerpoint. I have learned how to change the background. Its ki
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Another debate day. Today we talked about immigration to start. The Republicans think in stronger borders, higher penalties for people who smuggle the immigrants in, and deporting the immigrants back if they are found. The Democrats are more about he
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Today we got another free day to work on our projects. I focused on the section in my book about the growth of high schools. As i said in my last blog yesterday very, very frew students went on to attend high school. But, the new industrial age deman
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Hundreds of militants attacked US and Afghanistan in eastern Afghanistan on saterday. They opend fire on outposts from multiple positions using rockets, morters, and heavy caliber machine guns according to the official report. At least 8 American tro
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William Jennings Bryan was born March 19, 1860. He died July 26, 1925. Jennings was a very good speaker, a lawyer, and a three time presidential candidate, and devout Protestant. He was born in Salem, Illinois. He made his career in Nebraska politics
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According to National Security Adviser James Jones, there is no threat of the Taliban taking over the Afghan gov't right now. Jones doesn't believe that the Taliban will come to power any time soon, as he stated on CNN's State of the Union. I don't f
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On monday we got a free day to work on our projects. Basically I had already read the whole section so, I just focused on the first section. The first section in my book was about expanding public education. I learned that most children did not go to
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We did our debate today. The first topic was gun control. The Republicans are big on the people's right to bear arms. They think individuals should be able to have guns in their possession for self defense and hunting. Democrats think that we should
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Today was a work day. We worked on our powerpoints for our section which is due tomorrow. I learned about several Urban Problems such as housing, transportation, water, sanitation, crime, and fires. Also, I learned about settlement houses such as the
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Not untill 1840s did a organized school system exist. Education reformers like Horace Mann and Henry Barnard created state-wide school systems. These reformers tried to get increase oppertunities for all children, and create bonds between highly dive
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