Because Of Electricity

Lighbulb invented
drastically improved lives

    longer job hours

Electricity became one of the  improvements of industrialism. Thomas Edison invented the first lightbulb thanks to the power of electricity. Not only that, it also helped produce consumer industries. It also improved people's lives and because of electricity, electric streetcars made travel cheap and efficient.

"Mayor events before the civil war"

Around 1858, the United States was divided geographically-north and south with the south that depended on agriculture and slave labor, and the north became more industrialized. They both had different religions, climates etc. They believed in different things and opinions. The south got slaves to do many of the agriculture things. The north didn't at all depend on slaves because they were against that and was more modern and improved.
         The country was so divided by the issue of slavery, California needed the compromise of 1850 in order to become a state. There was an argument about this and if the north and south didnt agree on the compromise then California wouldnt be able to become a state so it had to be through popular soverinty.
         Around this time, many southerners were considering secession. Many thought that slavery was the problem between states rights of self determination and federal government control. So they decided to act.
         Many people from the north hated slavery, so they helped slaves become free. Those people were called abolitionists. They helped slaves escape through the underground railroad. Abolitionists risked their own lives to help slaves become free because they hated slavery.
         When  Uncle Tom's Cabin was published, it angered northern abolitionists because they already hated slavery. Southerners were annoyed because it criticized their way of living. The south thought it was an attack on them on how they work things. It increased the north to increase protests against the fugitive slave act.
         Two politicians became famous for they slavery debates which were Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Lincoln debated that he didnt want slavery. He wanted to abolish it. On the other hand, Douglas didnt want slavery either but it was the states decision to decide whether or not they wanted slavery.
         On December 20, 1860 Lincoln won and the first state to secede was South Carolina. Afterwards, more southern states followed in the South Carolina's footsteps. They saw that slavery was eventually going to come to an end so they knew they would economically have trouble and so decided to secede.

Post Election Analysis

                                       
My partner is J'vaughn Black
                                           
                              

         Marijuana Legalization in Colorado and Washington

1. Cite examples of "Supreme Law of the Land"
2. Cite examples of "federal vs. state authority"
3. What was the "compromise" that helped to pass the referendum in Washington? How do you think this compromise would affect demand for the product?
4. Why was Oregon's referendum not passed?

    1: "Marijuana is still illegal in the eyes of the federal government, which overrules states' rights "

    2: "The Drug Enforcement Administration's enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged."

   3: The compromise was that they were going to triple tax it. I think people are going to eventually stop buying it and get it illegally somehow.

  4: "Analysts had projected that it wouldn't go through and criticized various aspects of the initiative,    especially  the fact that it would have handed most of the regulating power in the marijuana industry to the growers rather than independent overseers."


             
                     Social Media and the presidential election
      

       5. What audience do you think social media was targeted to? Explain.

       6. Which candidate was most effective  using social media? Explain.

       7. According to Jeffrey Hermes, taking a picture of your marked ballot can be used to   pressure people standing in line to vote. Do you agree or disagree, and why?  

   5: The social media targeted the young people to learn, because they are going to eventually vote when they get old enough.
  
   6: "One of the stand-out moments from Mr Obama's campaign was The president spent around 30  minutes answering questions from the site's millions of users. Mr Obama's credibility was enhanced when he told users the Q&A sessions were "Not bad!"

  7: I agree because people while standing in line are still having a hard time deciding for who to vote for and they second guess themselves when they see other peoples votes. They are going to want to vote for the candidate the other person chose. That's a kind of pressure that will make people have doubts.

Immigration/Industrialization Key Terms

1.Nativist/Nativism: dislike of immigrants over the native born people.
2.George Eastman: American innovator and entrepreneur that made a company to develop film for taking pictures and to bring photography to mainstream.
3.Horizontal/Vertical integration: styles of management to help businesses.
4.Meat Inspection Act: law that helps prevent any meat that is not good for us to eat from being sold.
5.Thomas Edison: developed devices that help modernize life with phonographs, the motion picture, and the electric bulb.
6.Americanization: Immigrants that go to the U.S to have to get used to their values, beliefs and customs.
7.Reform: changes for improvement
8.Progressive Era/Movement: people became active to make a better government.
9.Trust/monopoly: a company that has control over the whole business, different companies that meet together to reduce competition by reducing prices.
10.Upton Sinclair: american author and California candidate who wrote a lot of books including the jungle.
11.Urban: high population and variety or human features to areas around like a city.
12.Political machine: typically a powerful boss that gives people and campaign workers rewards if they support them.
13.Social Darwinism: survival of the fittest; to justify that there's no difference between people who can and can't.
14.Muckraker: journalists that wrote about corrupt laws in popular magazines.
15.Social Gospel: a religious movement that focused on issues, of excessive wealth, poverty, alcoholism, crime, Racial Tensions, bad hygiene, child labor.
16.Alexander Graham Bell: scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who invented the telephone.
17.Europe(eastern and western): european countries that are,

18.Jane Addams: a settlement worker of many important roles.

19.Immigration: people migrating to a country or region that they were not born in.
20.Henry Bessemer: english engineer, inventor and businessman that improved the process of making steel.
21.Immigration act of 1965: removed the national quota system that restricted immigration and focused on immigrants skills and family relationships, restrictions on visas to 170,000 per year.
22.Andrew Carnegie: scottish american industrialist who led the expansion of american steel industry, most important philanthropists.
23.Graft: political corruption by using ones political position to get personal gain.
24.Hull Houses: reform institutions and chicagos best known
25.Cesar Chavez: american farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who co-founded the national farm workers association.