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The Muckrakers were journalists that exposed the injustices that were very shocking. That nickname was given because they racked up muck. The way people tried to correct mistreatment was to write to congress. That however was slow and it mostly ended

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Woodrow Wilson’s Policy towards African Americans and Womens suffrage

Woodrow Wilson served as our 28th president from 1913 to 1921. At first women’s suffrage was not on his agenda of things he was going to accomplish in his presidency. Woodrow then b

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-Temperance Movement-18th Amendment

Ban of production, selling, and transportation of alcohol in 1919, widely supported by women. Carrie Nation took up a hatchet and destroyed bars (thought God told her to do it).

-Muckrakers-Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbel

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

-Temperance Movement-18th Amendment: Movement in early 20th century pushed to have alcohol banned hard liquor banned but beer wasn't as important to ban  Temperance Movement helped the 18th Amendment in 1919- banned alcohol, prohibited the sales, tra

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Wednesday, September 26th

Topics:

-Temperance Movement-18th Amendment they wanted alcohol banned overall, amendment passed in 1919, prohibited manufacturing, selling, importing and exporting of it, but was not illegal to have it or drink it

-Muckrakers-Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbe

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Thursday September 26th

First we talked about the shooting in D.C. We also reviewed the topics from yesterday. Border security has almost completed the fence. Another thing they want to do is work on the Canada and US border. He also wants to make it easier to get green car

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Thurs Sep 26

We started off with current events we talked about the man who went into the base. He thought that the government was out to get him with elf radio waves. We also talked about the man who sexualy assulted a girl who later killed herself the man just

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September 26,2013

At the beginning of class we talked about a guy that went crazy and how the guy thought it was the military who was making him go crazy.  Then my group presented. Next another group presented on immigrants and the economy. Immigrants come up and work

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Today in class, we talked about the Naval Yard Shooting and how the shooter thought the US government was out to get him and trying to make him go crazy. We finished the discussion on immigration, talking about how Obama intends to build a better bor

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September 26th

A teacher in Montana who raped a 14-year-old that committed suicide two years later got out of prison after a month.

Immigration Discussion

  • Tougher penalties
  • Improve partnerships between border countries
  • Crack down on criminal networks
  • People reuniting wi
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September 26th 2013

We talked about the man who was behind the shooting in Washington. A teacher in Montana raped a 14 year old student and she killed her self 2 years later and was sentenced to a month in prison and got out today. Then we continued our immigration topi

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Thursday September 26

First we started off the class by talking about the Washington shooting that stated the government said he was delusional. The man said he was being harassed and such by magnetic wave things. After this, we talked more about the topics about immigrat

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September 26th 2013

At the beginning of class we went over the current events. We talked about the shooter at the Washington Naval Base, and how they found out that the shooter had traces of going delusional. Then we talked about a male teacher that raped a 14 year old

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September 26, 2013

We started off class by talking about the shooter. There is rumors saying that the man was delusional, and was hearing things. We also talked about the rapist in Montana who got out of jail in a month. The girl that he raped committed suicide two yea

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Thursday, September 26

So since we are behind in 6th hour, we won't learn the next part of Europe, but we will continue the discussion. Right now, we are summarizing what we went thru yesterday. And so far, I'm not paying attention to anything (everything is going in one e

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Thursday, September 26th

Today we covered some current issues involving the shooting in DC and that he believed that , and a teacher raped a 14 year old girl in Montana (she later committed suicide) and was sentenced to only a month in prison. After continued to go over pres

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Thursday, September 26th

Today we talked very briefly about the sentence of a teacher who raped a 14-year-old girl. Then, we continued with out discussion, starting with Scott, since he was absent yesterday. We summarized a few points in the discussion we got through yesterd

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1912 Republican Party Candidate and Platform:

The 1912 Republican Party candidate was William Howard Taft who was seeking another term of presidency. He was previously backed by Theodore Roosevelt prior to his presidential term, during which he suppos

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