The Journey

Image of The Triangle Shirtwaist Factor: Never be selfish, be selfless The week's blog was very touching. I just feel like honestly Woman are very undervalued; especially in the working field. In 1911, in Manhattan the building in the picture above claimed the lives of 146 people. The thing that makes me upset the most is the people that lost their lives in this building, were the same people fighting (protesting) for a change in their working environment! The Triangle factory, owned by Max Blanc and Isaac Harris, was located in the top three floors of the Asch Building. It was a true sweatshop that mostly employed young immigrant women. They worked in a cramped space in lines of sewing machines . Most of the teenage girls couldn't even speak English!! The workers worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and only got paid FITHTEEN (15) dollars a week. They literally slaved those people. One particular day on March 11th there was a fire that started in th...

HOMESTEAD ACT    noun a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.      As we learned in the last lesson, the expansion of railroads and the invention of barbed wire and improvements in windmills and pumps attracted ranchers and farmers to move west. The discovery of gold, silver, and other precious minerals attracted prospectors and miners. (I hate to use this term to name these group of people, but for the sake of history how we know of it...) Native Americans were forced to leave the land that they were on FIRST so White Americans could own the land. The Homestead Act was not at all helpful for Native Americans nor Afri...

STRAIGHT OUT  OF THE GILDED AGE " Glittering on the surface, but corrupt underneath" The Gilded Age was definitely a period of   gree d! Shady business practices were at an all time high, or should I say CAPITALISM at it's best! The 19th century was the rise of a modern industrial economy. The discovery of gold, silver, and other precious minerals in the West made a lot of American move west. The expansion of railroads and the creation of barbed wire and better windmills and pumps caused ranchers and farmers to move to the Great Plain. (*inside thought: they were just trying to make a better life for themselves and families*) American's moved in hopes of having a better life, but sadly they had consequences  to face. The issue is the whites in that era wanted you to do their work, and give workers very little pay or none!  #YouCantDoThat #HelpYouPayMe The Free Market was definitely a MYTH in the U.S. because the government has ALWAYS been ...

Honestly, this is the most I've really been into history! I made myself read all the assignments aloud with nothing else on. I really started getting into it. I find history so shocking when I starting thinking about how old I would have been during these times, and how hard and scary some months were while living during such eras vs. how life really was for me and the economy during particular ages. ( If that makes any sense ) .   It honestly just makes me more grateful and humble towards how I was raised compared to how it was during certain eras where people have lost their life for being a certain color. It's ridiculous. When I think of how school was for me in elementary; I had friends of all colors, shapes or whatever, but I always liked to be around nice funny people, I’ve never been judgmental. (Basically, if you're cool, you're cool😄☺️) It's so hard to imagine hating a person so much because of them being colored. Starting with black code. First of all, yo...