twelve years a slave

                                                                     Book Report

  Solomon Northup was born a free man in Minerva New York, in 1808. We don't know much about his mother, who his narrative does not identify her by her name. His father Mintus, was originally enslaved to the Northup family from Rhode Island but he was freed after the family moved to New York. As a young man Northup would help his father on the farms and worked as a raftsman on the waterways in New York.

 He later married a woman named Anne Hampton who was a mixed white/black race, They had three children together. He got recognized as an exultant Fiddle player. Two men offered him to travel in a music band and they said that they would pay him very well but they drugged him and sold him into slavery. He sold very fast in a auction in New Orleans. He didn't just serve for one person he served for multiple and some would beat him. A agent was sent to get him and the agent got him free but after he was a free man he tried to file kidnapping charges against the two men. In the book two years a slave Northup goes through many hard times from working as a Raftsman on the rivers to becoming a slave and having to work for other people without getting paid. Northup was beaten sold and worked just to live, If he did not work he would be killed. 

This book relates to the real world because this happened to many african americans. they would be taken from there homes and turned into slaves. African americans in this time would be beaten or even killed for not working or doing what they were told. This book completely related to the real world by people would be drugged and kidnapped. Most whites had no respect for blacks.

color tv

In 1952 for the first time, television news was able to broadcast the Republican and Democratic conventions live from Philadelphia to the rest of the nation. The number of households in the U.S. with at least one TV set rose from less than a million to 44 million.  The amount advertisers paid these TV stations and the networks rose from $58 million to $1.5 billion. This shows that t.v is becoming more and more popular, People want to get involved in the t.v network. The number of households in the U.S. with at least one TV set rose from less than a million to 44 million.This shows that people want more and more television and this is how it spreads so fast because people are wanting more and more channels. Television programming has had a huge impact on American and world culture. Many critics have dubbed the 1950s as the Golden Age of Television. 

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/television-in-the-1950s.html

http://www.ushistory.org/us/53c.asp

1950's Advancement Of Cars

In the 1950's cars changed the style of clothing, music and, '' Hot Rods'' became the new thing. The manufactures came from ''war efforts'' to making the new big thing, which was the new cars. The automotive industry grew dramatically. During the war they made very little cars. Instead they made tanks and planes.

In fact 1 in 6 were working for the automotive industry so about 17% of the population worked on, sold or built cars. In one year the country made about 8 million cars.

As the automobiles came out people wanted to race them that is how NASCAR was made. It was the second most watched sport in that time, right behind Football. people wanted to see the excitement and see the new improvements technologies in a car. The cars changed but most of all the companies and culture changed the most. their were drive thrues, drive ins, drive in movies and drive in everything.

they had cars that were luxurious but now the new thing was making them fast and cool. Hot Rods is the name, They would generally lower them make them loud and give them a cool paint-job. These projects were generally show cars and made for car enthusiast.