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America story of us episode 7: cities the statue of liberty was donated from ___________________________ to celebrate the 100 ye

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1: The Statue of Liberty was donated from the people of France to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence.

2 - Answer: The Statue didn't arrive at New York as it is today. It was unassembled and it was composed of many pieces. The cost to assemble all of the pieces together would be immense and the NY city didn't have the money to do so.

3 - Answer: He launched a fundraiser campaign. He used his newspaper The World, the biggest one in New York City at the time, to spread the news about the fundraising.

4: In all, there are a staggering 121,000 donations.

5 - Answer: Gustave Eiffel, a French civil engineer and architect, designed both the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower.

6: It takes the Statue of Liberty twenty-five years to oxidize and turn green.

7 - Answer: Until 1902. In 1901 Theodore Roosevelt said that the Statue was useless as a lighthouse because the light was barely visible at night.

8: All immigrants pass by the Statue of Liberty as they make their way to the immigration process station at Ellis Island.

9: Over than a hundred million Americans can trace their roots to someone who was processed at Ellis Island.

10: Immigration trends: Irish, Russians, and Italians to big cities. German to the Midwest; Scandinavians to the farms.

11: Today there are more Italians in New York than in Rome.

12: Between 1880 and 1930 over twenty-four million immigrants came to the United States.

13 - Answer: The steel was the expensive ingredient that was needed for the cities to expand. In order to build skyscrapers, steel was needed. It shaped the landscape of big cities such as New York.

14 - Answer: Andrew Carnegie became rich because of the iron industry. He was Scotish, but his family moved to America for the same reason that million other families moved too: in search of a better life. He invested some money in iron and railroads.

15 - Answer: In Pittsburgh. The plant was larger than 80 football fields. He found the Bessemer process of producing steel and by applying it he could produce steel at a cost never seen before.

16: Because of the Bessemer process the price of steel plummeted 80%.

17: This time period of extreme wealth by a fraction of Americans was known as the Gilded Age.

18 - Answer: Many items are produced using steel. However, the items that most transformed New York landscape during the Gilded Age was skyscrapers, railroads and bridges. With the new construction techniques and the Industrial Revolution established for good, it was possible to go as higher, as far and as creative as one could.

19 - Answer: It refers to construction workers that worked during the Gilded Age. They walked along girders without harnesses or anything else to protect them. They would eat, work and take naps on those girders.

20 - Answer: They would be called "snakes" because working with them could be deadly. Experienced workers were used to working on hights, and because of that, they were more cautious. But inexperienced beginners could make a lot of deadly mistakes.

21 - Answer: They used to work for four dollars per day. That wage was twice that were paid for manual labour, because of that many would prefer risking their lives in order to make more money.

22: 2 out of 5 roughnecks either are disabled or die on the job.

23 - Answer: The elevator. Before that, it was impossible to build a building over 5 stores. How would the workers bring the material to the top? It would have to take too many stairs.

24 - Answer: The major improvements were photographing criminals and creating psychological profiles of them. Both techniques were invented by Detective Bureau Chief Thomas Byrnes.

25 - Answer: At least two contributions: using flash in photography and the implementation of "model tenements" in New York.

26 - Answer: It was called White Ducks. They were sanitation workers that used to clean the streets of New York in order to save lives that were threatened by the dirt.

27 - Answer: He used cardboard. He was in search of the perfect material. However, the perfect filament was the carbonized cardboard.

28: By 1902 there are eighteen million light bulbs in use.

29: By 1900 nearly four million women were working in U.S. cities.

30 - Answer: The deadliest industrial disaster of the history of the US happened in 1911. 146 workers died in a fire that made the factory collapse. 123 victims were women. The incident happened on March 25.

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It would be Russians.

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Why did US Influence in Hawall increase during the 1800s? Check all that apply,

zvonat [6]

US settlers purchased land in order to start plantations.

US plantation owners dominated Hawaiian politics.

The US began to import many goods from Hawaii.

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((15 POINTS)) Where did gandhi first begin to work for civil rights?

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He worked in South AfricaIn 1893, he accepted a one-year contract with an Indian company operating in Natal, South Africa. He became interested in the situation of the 150,000 compatriots residing there, fighting against laws that discriminated against Indians in South Africa through passive resistance and civil disobedience.
However, the incident that would serve as a catalyst for his political activism occurred several years later, when traveling to Pretoria, he was forcibly removed from the train at Pietermaritzburg station because he refused to move from the first class to the third class, Destined to the black people. Later, traveling on a stagecoach, he was beaten by the driver because he refused to give up his seat to a white-skinned passenger. In addition, in this trip, he suffered other humiliations when he was denied lodging in several hotels because of his race. This experience brought him much more in touch with the problems faced daily by black people in South Africa. Also, after suffering racism, prejudice and injustice in South Africa, he began to question the social situation of his countrymen and himself in the society of that country.
When his contract was terminated, he prepared to return to India. At the farewell party in his honor in Durban, leafing through a newspaper, it was reported that a law was being drafted in the Legislative Assembly of Natal to deny the vote to the Indians. He postponed his return to India and engaged in the task of elaborating various petitions, both to the Natal Assembly and to the British Government, trying to prevent that law from being approved. Although it did not achieve its objective, since the law was enacted, it managed, however, to draw attention to the problems of racial discrimination against the Indians in South Africa.

Gandhi in South Africa (1895).He expanded his stay in this country, founding the Indian Party of the Congress of Natal in 1894. Through this organization he was able to unite the Indian community in South Africa into a homogenous political force, flooding the press and government with allegations of violations of the Civil rights of the Indians and evidence of discrimination by the British in South Africa.
Gandhi returned to India shortly to take his wife and children to South Africa. Upon his return, in January 1897, a group of white men attacked him and tried to lynch him. As a clear indication of the values that would maintain throughout his life, he refused to report his attackers to justice, stating that it was one of his principles not to seek redress in court for damages inflicted on his person.
At the beginning of the South African War, Gandhi considered that the Indians should participate in this war if they aspired to legitimize themselves as citizens with full rights. Thus, he organized bodies of non-combatant volunteers to assist the British. However, at the end of the war, the situation of the Indians did not improve; In fact, continued to deteriorate.
In 1906, the government of Transvaal promulgated a law that forced all the Indians to register. This led to a massive protest in Johannesburg, where for the first time Gandhi adopted the platform called satyagraha ('attachment or devotion to truth') which consisted of a nonviolent protest.
Gandhi insisted that the Indians openly defy, but without violence, the enacted law, suffering the punishment that the government would impose. This challenge lasted for seven years in which thousands of Indians were imprisoned (including Gandhi on several occasions), beaten and even shot for protest, refuse to register, burn their registration cards and any other form of nonviolent rebellion. Although the government managed to suppress the Indians' protest, the denunciation abroad of the extreme methods used by the South African government finally forced the South African general Jan Christian Smuts to negotiate a solution with Mahatma Gandhi.

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Why Mary Tudor was called "Bloody Mary?

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In carrying out the last action, Mary earned her nickname, "Bloody Mary," because, during her reign, she had more than 300 persons burned at the stake for heresy.

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