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An online academic forum where CSI High School US History students discuss politics, history, economics culture, and above all, ideas.
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This online learning community will be a place for us to informally "talk" about ideas and reflect on topics and issues that relate to our study of US History and world events. You are expected to post to this blog at least once a week. Blogs are due before class on fridays, unless otherwise noted. Your blog assignments may take the format of responses to the questions I assign, questions for further discussion or clarification, feedback on one anothers postings or comments in class, links to and reflections on relevant materials you find on the internet, or any combination of these suggestions.
The whole idea is that this be a vibrant space for inquiry-based discussion - so the more you communicate with one another about your ideas the richer the blogging experiece will be for all involved!
The whole idea is that this be a vibrant space for inquiry-based discussion - so the more you communicate with one another about your ideas the richer the blogging experiece will be for all involved!
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Ian Murphy
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Block A
The Underside of Urban Life
1.) Most of the poor and immigrants lived in tenement houses. They were overcrowded, which made diseases easier to spread. Infants were most susceptible to disease, with 25% of all babies in the 19th Century dying in tenement houses before reaching even one year of age.
2.) The dumbbell tenement was a house that was constructed to allow more light to enter even overcrowded buildings. However, vents were filled with trash and the chances of fires spreading quickly were greatly increased by its narrow structure.
3.) Human wastes overflowed in cesspools during rainy days, and old sewage pipes dumped waste into rivers and bays. There was also no system of trash-collecting.
The Rush of Immigrants
1.) We can learn of new languages and religions among other things through the studying of our immigrant roots.
2.) The most distinguishing difference between the old and the new immigrants was that they were paid better wages when compared to their old lives, making it easier to support their own families.
3.) “Birds of passage” simply went to America for the sake of earning enough money to send to their families and returned home soon afterward.
4.) Perhaps they felt that they would feel more comfortable and welcome in these areas.
5.) The Chinese and Japanese immigrants were prevented from entering America by racial purists who did not want them to alter genetic outcomes to their children.
6.) The ethnic cap was based on the American population before 1890; many immigrants arrived before this time, and immigrants of the same groups were thus welcome.
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