Eddie's Class

8th Grade

From the 1800's to mid 1880's Americans faced  many challenges in the North East, South, and the West. Some were very successful and some were oppressed.  Explain how people would have been successful or oppressed in every region and what were the factors?  You need to write 3 paragraphs, one on each region.

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1848 Chapter 2 from book "Blacks Join The Gold Rush." In this chapter there is a newspaper story description from 1848 where Blacks are said to earn more than an East Coast governor.
http://www.inmotionaame.org/texts/viewer.cfm?id=6_002T&page=12

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1879 "Committee Investigation on Relocating Blacks" This gives us personal accounts of Blacks settling in Indiana and the benefits and struggles of shift.
http://www.inmotionaame.org/texts/viewer.cfm?id=6_005T&page=310


Create a GoAnimate where you debate whether you would rather go to California, Indiana, New York, or the South i nthe 1800's.