Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Treatmeant of the People of Color

1. How did mexicans earn a living in the late 1800's, and where did they do this work at ?

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Booker T. Washington

 1. What was the name of the school that Booker T. Washington started? *

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

African-Americans after Reconstruction

Racism is different today from when racism was practiced immediately after Reconstruction  because " colored people " have more right then what they had back then in '60 .

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The Meat Inspection Act

                       The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, affected the way meat was being produced by a new law called M.I.A (Meat Inspection Act). The M.I.A stared by the people of the U.S., by eating unheathy meat that the M.P.I (Meat Packing Industry) did not take care of there meat. U.S. citizen were becoming very sick, ill, and even dying by all the germs that came from the M.P.I did not take care of.
    In the book The Jungle, Upton explans how the M.I.P did not care for the meat, M.I.P just let the meat out in the open and dead meat on top of each other, rats toughing the meat, and rat poop toughing it as well. After the book The Jungle came out, higher class people started writing to the government by making it a law and that's how the Meant Inspection Act law came across the U.S.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Hopelessly Bound to the Stake

    In this image , there is a worker being burned by the monoplys. To understand this image more, it is telling readers that the monopolys are over working workers till there dead. The monopoly make the workers work for very little pay, also work in unsafe conditions. Workers work sixteen to fourteen hours a day .