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http://tudorhistory.org/

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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/medicine_in_americas.html

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The Jungle

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown?
  You need to be hardworking and a good person

2)According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal?
   The plants owerners main goal was to make a much money as possible.

3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
  He meant that the workers got what they got and shouldn't complane and they the tried to get as much as they could.

From The Jungle

                                                                     From The Jungle


Questions:
1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown?
2) According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal.
3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"

Answers:
1. He thought that you wouldn't have to be hard working and smart also you need to love being able to work.
if you loved to work it would been that you wold be a good person to hire.You would also need to be very fit.

2. The plants owners main goal is to be able to make money and to succeed.They would also work men to the point where the couldn't go any further then fire them.

3. The workers would not complain about working and wouldn't complain about what they got paid.

The USS Maine

      At the time Cuba was in a revolt against Spain trying to gain Independence.  But America was interests in Cuba because they could get raw goods such as sugar. The USS Maine was deployed to protect Cuba and in the night of February,15,1895 the ship blew up. 266 people lost their lives to the explosion. America immediately blamed Spain and a few months later we went to war against Spain.
later we found out that the gun powder exploded in the front storage compartment. Now most of the bodies are berried at Arlington national cemetery and the mast is also their.

pages 308,309 in textbook                              

                                                    Should the us be an imperial nation


                             I feel that we should not become an imperial nation because it is not rite and we are not far enough in technology. On of president Mckinley quotes was " leave the government and control of the island of cuba to its people". When he said this he is saying that he is not for becoming an imperialist nation. william jennings Bryant is against imperialism to and is said that shall we change the name of our executive and call him the president of the united states and emperor of the philippines?And last Theodore roosevelt was for imperialism and on example was It is cowardly to shrink from solving them in the proper way. Imperialism is the policy of extending a countries power and influencing through military force. and we should not become an imperial nation no matter what.

Bob La Follette

Bob La Follette was a senator for Wisconsin June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925 La Follette has been called "arguably the most important and recognized leader of the opposition to the growing dominance of corporations over the Government" and is one of the key figures in Wisconsin's long history. He is best remembered as a proponent of progressivism and a vocal opponent of railroad. He supported the development and expansion of the railroads.

Jane Addams

Jane Addams was born on september 6, 1860 in cedarville, Illinois. Jane Addams co founded one of the first settlements in the united states. Addams also served as the first female president of the national conference of social work. She served as president in the womens international league for peace and freedom. She was known for being a social reformer,pacifist and feminist during the late 19th and early 20th century. She was very sick for a while and when she was done being sick with health problems she went to medical school briefly. In 1889 Addams and Starr opened one of the first settlements in both the United States and North America. Addams began serving on Chicago's Board of Education in 1905 later chairing its the School Management Committee. She then later died in 1935 in Chicago.

Dealing with workers

Dealing with workers

If you were an owner or investor dealing with the workers could be a struggle. This is because the living conditions were poor and the workers wanted to work less and get payed more. The workers wanted to work no more than ten hours a day, They also asked to not be in the short cramped tunnels for as long. Workers just wanted to get payed more as time went on. The workers were not happy with what they were doing by working in small tunnels, the workers wanted to get payed more and work less and wanted to not half to work as long in the small enclosed tunnels. 

Life at camp

Life At Camp

        The life at camp while building the transcontinental railroad they say is hell.

they even gave it a nickname "Hell on wheels. Their was a reason for this name because the camps and mini towns could be abandoned over night. The camps were unsanitary, brutal and not well built.

The houses  were made of sticks and canvas and poles. Their was some good things that are surprising such as their was bars and even salons. Over the years camps on the rail roads died and boomed in population the camps were horrible but also fun depending on who you were

civil war prison camps

Civil war prison camps were harsh and you didn't want to be their. more than 56,000 people died and got hurt in total in the prison camps.The high mortality rate was not deliberate, but the result of ignorance of nutrition and proper sanitation on both sides.

   

their were shortages of food, shelter, and clothing produced a cauldron of disease and death for inmates. Prison diets consisted of pickled beef, salt pork, corn meal, rice, or bean soup. The lack of fruits or vegetables often led to outbreaks of scurvy and other diseases. In many northern prisons hungry inmates hunted varmints sometimes making a sport of it.

Weapons in civil war

       In the civil war their were many different weapons used and during the civil war their were many different innovations including the early machine gun and grenades. The weapons were from knives and swards to automatic weaponry.

      The bladed weapons were knives which could be used for combat and to chop wood. swards for show and for combat. Sabers for training and fighting , and cutlass for naval fighting and on ground combat.

      The most advanced guns were the rapid fire machine guns and the grenade. those weapons came out at the end of the war but still killed many but it was very scary to be at the end of the barrel.