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Lynching in the United States

Posted by 4erin on September 27, 2009 at 6:30pm

Lynching was the act of killing people by extrajudicial mob action, mainly starting in the 1700's, and lasting until around 1950. Most of the time lynching consisted of a hanging, but it also included burning and other types of torture. The lynchers,

Friday 9-25-09

Posted by 4Nathan on September 27, 2009 at 5:58pm

Today in U.S. History we had a in class day to work on our projects. The internet was very unreliable, so all we could really do was read over our section. After reading my section again I learned more about the poll tax and the grandfather clause. I

The Government Restricts Native Americans

Posted by 3Nelson on September 27, 2009 at 5:56pm

While more settlers moved Westward, they wanted to accuire more land. This land that they wanted to accuire was home to many Native Americans, and they were not going to let White men walk all over them. The government put up many restrictions agains

Iran's Nuclear Program.

Posted by 5Haley on September 27, 2009 at 5:48pm

Iran's leaders have been working on bettering their nuclear program since the 1950's. It all started with the "Atoms for Peace" movement. The movement was mainly started by President Dwight Eisenhower, who made a speech about this. After the speech,

5/28/09

Posted by 3Mumm on September 27, 2009 at 5:36pm

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Expanding Public Education

Posted by 3Mumm on September 27, 2009 at 5:33pm

I read the section 2 of chapter 8 from our U.S. History book. The forms of education, demands for the expansion and promotion of education, and insightful leaders who dealt with the public’s education were discussed.Back in the old days, very few peo

September 25, 2009

Posted by 4erin on September 27, 2009 at 5:15pm

Well, for this blog I think we are supposed to put the six main points from the chapter/section thing that we read... atleast I think I remember Mr. Bruns saying that.So my assigned section is chapter eight, section three, which is on Segregation and

2009 Iranian Election

Posted by 3Nelson on September 27, 2009 at 5:10pm

The 2009 Iranian election was held on June 12, 2009. The two major heard about canidates were Mir-Hossein Mousavi and the least favored canidate by the people, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The elections were very interesting, and major news channels tried to

Friday, September 25, 2009

Posted by 8Sarah on September 27, 2009 at 5:00pm

Today people are taking tests, and I took mine.Through the "Golden Door"Millions of people immigrated to the United States because they thought they would have a better life. Also, some came because of famine, religious or political persecution, and

9/25/09 My section

Posted by 5 Josh on September 27, 2009 at 3:24pm

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Engineering in the late 1800's skyrocked. They were able to build cities bigger to cover the over population crises. In 1870 25 cities had a population of 50,000 or more.Architects were able to design taller buildings because of two factors: the inve

Leader of Iran

Posted by 5Max on September 27, 2009 at 3:09pm

The Surpreme Leader of Iran is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is also the leader in revolution.He was born on July 15, 1939. Ali was born in Mashhad. He studied religious beliefs before completing elementary school. He was the second child of eight. Ali

September 25, 2009

Posted by 5Max on September 27, 2009 at 1:57pm

Today in class Mr Bruns finished up the oral test. We only had to have one person take it in are class. Next we started the democrat/republican debate. I was on the Democrat side. The first topic was abortion and democrats belive it is the womans cho

9/24/09

Posted by 5megan on September 27, 2009 at 1:16pm

Mr. Bruns continued going over our projects. We should know how to pronounce word and have pictures and we should have five sources. Each individual person should have five sources. Then he went into 10 tips for a good speech. We should know our cont

9/23/09

Posted by 5megan on September 27, 2009 at 1:15pm

Today we started class off by talking about our projects are going to be about. We have to give a presentation about a chapter in our books. We have to read through the chapter and pick out the main topics we want to talk about. My group has Chapter

September 25, 2009

Posted by 3Liz on September 27, 2009 at 12:33pm

So today in CWI we started our discussion. We started off with abortion. Democrats think that you should have the choice of life or abortion, Republicans think that life starts at conception so no abortion. Personally, I agree with the Republicans on

The Homestead Act

Posted by 4ashley on September 27, 2009 at 11:13am

One of the major attractions to bring settlers to the West was the Homestead Act. The Homestead Act gave 160 acres of land to any citizen or citizen to be who was also the head of the house hold. The act was signed by Abraham Lincoln on May 20th, 186

September 25, 2009

Posted by 4ashley on September 27, 2009 at 10:42am

Today was a work day for our presentations and the chapter that I have to do is chapter 5 lesson 2.Some of the Topics for my section:Settlers Move Westward to FarmRailroads open the westGovernment Support for SettlememtThe Closing f the FronteirSettl

Homestead Act of 1862

Posted by 3AustinE on September 27, 2009 at 10:32am

This Act was intended to give anyone in the United States the right to file for an application to get 160 free acres of land in the west for farming. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the government including freed slaves could get a peice o

Friday 9/25/09

Posted by 3Breann on September 27, 2009 at 10:24am

Politics in the Gilded AgeGilded Age- This was a time after the Civil War, from about 1865 till 1901 so the late 19th century, when America had a huge growth in population and people were showing their money by buying mansions and extravagent things.

Blog Summarization fo Friday

Posted by 3Madison on September 27, 2009 at 10:16am

Today in class we started our Debate on the views of Democratic and Republicans. I thought it was kind of hard to defend something you are totally against. I think he should let us pick what side we want to be on, and then let us debate that side.We

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