| My name is Jazzman J, and I am making a web page for my History class. My site will have information on people, immigrents, adrertising and Inventions from the Indutsrial Age. |
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| Short Biographys Granville T. Woods- Granville T. Woods was kicked out of school at the age of ten and he still was able to patent over 35 different electrical and mechanical inventions. He was born in Columbus Ohio, April 23, 1856. He died in New York City on January 30, 1910. Here are some of his most famous inventions and what invention number it is. 1. Steam Boiler Furnace Comment: First Patent. 2. Telephone Transmitter. 18. Electric Railway System. 19. Electric-Railway Supply System. 44. Railway-Brake Apparatus. 45. Electric-Railway Apparatus. 46. Railway-Brake Apparatus. 47. Safety Apparatus for Railways. Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on September 4, 1848. He died on December 11, 1928. He invented a toilet system for railroad cars in 1873 and he supervised the installation of electric lighting in New York City, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London. Jane Addams- Born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860. She died in 1935. Jane Addams founded the world famous social settlement Hull-House on Chicago's Near West Side in 1889. The Hull-House was a place where immigrants in Chicago could come for a job. Jane Addams and the other residents of the settlement provided services for the neighborhood, such as kindergarten and daycare facilities for children of working mothers, an employment bureau, an art gallery, libraries, and music and art classes. |
| My two choices: Immigrants and Advertising Immigrants I. Why did people come to the US? There were several different reasons people came to the U.S. Most of the immigrants came here to escape poverty or persecution. East European Jews came to the U.S. to escape religious persecution, especially pogroms. A pogrom is an event where a mob in a country take violent actions against Jews, such as burning their stores or killing Jews. It was something like what the KKK did against African-Americans. Some immigrants, such as many Italians, came to the U.S., hoping to make money and return to Italy. But sometimes that didn�t work out, and they had to stay in the U.S. Some immigrants wanted to try the �land of opportunity.� II. Were immigrants� expectations met/was it different from their expectations? There was a lot of false advertising about what the U.S. was really like, especially by steam ship companies and railroads. Many immigrants thought that they could come to the U.S. to make easy money. Italians thought they could earn enough money in a couple years to go home to Italy and start a new life there. Immigrants were told that the U.S. was the land of opportunity so they came. However, the �Promised Land� wasn�t as good as it was promised. Immigrants often had to do hard work to make even a small amount of money. They often could get only the worst jobs, at low pay, like working in mines, or textile mills, or the garment industry. They often had to work very long hours, sometimes as much as 15 hours a day. There was also a lot of discrimination that stopped them from getting good jobs. There were some good things though. Even though the work was really hard, there were lots of jobs. And there really was more freedom, and much less persecution. There were no pogroms in the U.S. Jews didn�t have to register with the state like they had to do in lots of European countries. Advretising Early on in industry�s Golden age, advertising was just getting started. There were very few companies that advertised, but for those who did, it worked. Companies started using brand names like, �Standard Oil� which set an example that their oil was standard. Others used colorful labels on there items. Eventually, companies used billboards and newspapers to advertise. Now, you can turn on the TV and find a car or truck commercial. Almost all companies have adds in the newspaper and a jingle to play on TV. Today, all kids know what you mean when you say �McDonald�s� or �Burger King.� Today, most hour programs have about 17 minutes of commercials and 43 minutes of actual program. |
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