Hi this is Samantha from 9th period 20th Century Class.

For the Tuskegee Airmen project that my group and I did for our 20th Century History Class, we choose to do a power point.  My job in the project was to choose a question and answer it.  This was important because my group and I had to pick one question to answer for the power point and answer it completely.  If I didn’t have my question answered, we wouldn’t have the whole projected done and wouldn’t get the grade we should be getting.  It didnt take me long to anwser my question that I had.  I watched the movie and paid attention, so a lot of the information came from the movie, but I also read about the Tuskegee Airmen on the interenet and I know that those men went through a lot of trouble fighting for what they believed in.  It took a long time to change the attitude of most Americans, but the Tuskegee Airmen played a big role in doing that.

Hello, My name is Samantha M from Mr. Sals 9th period  20th Century History Class. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States and the leading supporter of the League of Nations. Thomas Woodrow led the country through some of the darkest days during world war I. Wilson began teaching Bryn Mar college in 1885 before going to Wesleyan University in 1888.  At weleyan, he couched the winning football team.  1890 he got a job at Princton and in 1902 he was appointed president of Princeton.  In 1910 Wilson was elected governor of New Jersey, in  an astonishingly short time he pushed through major states that sweaped him into the white house in 1912. Wilson’s first term as President he had passed significant tariff legislation and banking reform. His world was shattered two years in his term, but when his wifed died and world war I broke out in the Europe. The United States entered the war on  April 6, 1917 during  Wilsons second term.  Wilson was the leader at the 1918 Peace Conference that ended the war but he was pushed to hard and had a severe stroke  in 1919. Than Warren G. Harding was elected President in a Republican landslide in 1920. Later in that year, Wilson got awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and retired with his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt, witch he had married her in 1915. They lived quietly in Washington, D.C, until he died three years later.

Next id like to talk about Archduke Francis Ferdinand (1863-1914)

Francis Ferdinand was born in Graz Austria, the oldest son of Archduke Charles Louis  and his nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph.when Francis Ferdinand was 12 years old, he inherited the title archduke of AustriaEste. In 1899 he became heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire,after his father and cousin, Crown Prince Rudolph, died. But, since Francis Ferdinand’s health was poor, people thought that the throne would go to his younger brother Otto. It made Francis Ferdinand anger, but there were other conflicts as well. Francis Ferdinand fell deeply in love with Countess Sophie Chotek, duchess of Hohenberg. Sophie Chotek was a much lower social rank than Francis Ferdinand. Francis Ferdinand was expected to married to a equal rank, like the queen or princess of a great empire. After strife he was allowed to marry Sophie but he had to relinquished all claims to the throne for his children meaning Sophie and their children wouldn’t have any rights by Francis Ferdinand’s status took place in 1900. He tried to influence  affairs, but he was over powered by Francis Joseph, witch remained  emperor, from 1906 and on, he did exert better influence on military issues. On 1913 he became general of the army, but the time he had for office was cut short, in June 1914 him and his wife assassinated at Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip.  A month later World War I had began, when Austria declared war against the Serbia.

Next would be Some Promise.

1917 of January the war in Europe was a tragic standoff, Britain knew Europe would be saved if they had the United States to join there side of the war. But thats when President Wilson was unshakable and effort to mediate peace, but then he had a stroke, letting the United States into World War I then into a quiet British office. One countless messages intercepted and read by the crack team of British decoders, the Zimmerman telegram was a top-secret message to the President of Mexico city, inviting Mexico to join Germany and Japan to invade the United States.  Recovery of her lost American  territories is Mexico’s reward and Germany’s goals are to keep America fully occupied on her side of the Atlantic.

Hi, everyone.  My name is Sam M. from Mr. Sal’s 9th period 20th Century History class.

This blog is about the problems that our nation experience in the late 1800s and early 1900s when a bunch of people decided to move into the newly developing cities.  The fastest growing cities at the time were New York City, St. Louis and Chicago.  In 1860 only 20% of the people in the U.S. lived in towns or cities with population greater than 2,500.  By 1900 this percentage had doubled.  Because these cities were growing, everyone wanted to move there to try to get good jobs.  The problem was that there weren’t enough jobs to go around and there weren’t enough places for all of the people to live.

The people that were moving into the cities were immigrants from Europe and African Americans from the south in the United States.  The immigrants and African Americans were not treated equally because the people who already lived in the cities were prejudice against them.  Many things made them prejudice, such as the color of their skin, the languages they spoke and the fact that they were trying to steal the Amercan’s jobs.

As far as living conditions were concerned, they were bad in the overcrowded cities.    Tenement buildings were built to house the overflow of people.  These buildings didn’t have the building codes for safety that they have now, so they were also dangerous if there was a fire and they could be unsanitary because too many people would live in an apartment made for only one family.  Apartments were build so close together that the people who lived in them never got any fresh air.  This caused many people to get sick.

Since there were so many people and not enough jobs, people started to fight, gamble, drink, do drugs and whatever else they could think of to get money and escape reality.  Cities weren’t set up to deal with all of this crime and there weren’t enough police officers to go around.  Because of this, crime happened all the time and there was nothing anyone could do about it.  Cities also didn’t have enough firefighters or sanitation systems.  Fires raged out of control and garbage and sewage were all over the streets which polluted the drinking water.

So what did they do about it?  Architects tried to help the problem of overcrowding by designing dumbell apartments which were shaped like the letter “I”.  By doing this, vertical spaces called air shafts could be left between buidings to allow light and air into each apartment.  This didn’t really work though, because the airshafts got to be dangerous.  Tenants threw garbage out the windows into the air shafts.  The garbage rotted on the hot summer days and the smell made people sick.  Also, rats, insects and disease germs lived in the garbage.

My name is Sam M., and I am in Mr. Sal’s 9th period 20th Century History Class.

The subjects in this class that I want to learn about are The Great Depression and Women’s Rights.  I want to learn about the Great Depression because I heard everyone lost everything they had and I keep hearing people say that we are heading for another great depression because our economy is so bad right now.

I want to learn about Women’s Rights because I am a woman and I want to know what they went through to get the rights that we have today.  I know they weren’t allowed to vote and their place was in the home, but during the war, the women had to go out and get jobs, so I want to learn more about that.

The technology that we are using in class right now are ipods.  Truthfully, I don’t like using ipods.  I think the only reason we should use ipods is for music, not for learning.  They are so small and they are hard to work with.  What if we have sausage fingers like Mrs. Zern?  How are we supposed to hit the right buttons?  I always hit the wrong buttons and I can’t get logged on.  That is why I am doing this blog on the last day that it is due and I’m finishing it on the computer.  I haven’t had any luck on the ipod.

If I could learn to use one piece of technology in Mr. Sal’s class, I would like to learn to use the flip cam.  I think it would be fun to make a video of something that happened in history.  Kids could get in groups and work together to write a short skit and reenact a moment in history.  I think a flip cam would be a good piece of technology to do this with.