https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww Made with a warm hug en-us 2018-02-01 16:38:35 UTC 2025-09-25 03:59:50 UTC hello@padlet.com kimbroughj1 https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww/wish/227151909 The first stop on our bus tour will be where the Chicago Stockyard once stood. The Chicago stockyard was where many of the factories and labor mills for meat were in the Chicago. During the Industrial period the stockyard was very beneficial but it came with a negative price for the laborers. Laborers worked hard long days in dangerous conditions for terrible wages which gained the attention of people like Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the book "The Jungle" to share the experiences of the laborers in hopes of expanding socialism.]]> 2018-02-01 17:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww/wish/227151909 kimbroughj1 https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww/wish/227152172 Our second stop will be to Mr. John Rockefeller's Mansion in Ormond Florida. During the industrial period Rockefeller was one of the most influential people. He capitalized off smaller businesses by making them bigger. What once was a small "Standard Oil Company,"in Cleveland  grew to one of the biggest industries making Rockefeller the richest man in the world. The way he did it what absolutely brilliant and efficient. He made more money by using the best materials so they would be long lasting and built their own barrels and wagons instead of buying and paying someone. He also made his own sulfuric acid which was used in the oil-refining process. All of these efforts made room for lower prices, greater production and less competition. John Rockefeller took advantage of the changes that the economy was going through. ]]> 2018-02-01 17:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww/wish/227152172 kimbroughj1 https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww/wish/227152485 Our forth stop will be the battle of bunker hill. The battle was fought during the early stages of the American Revolutionary war in 1775. On June 13, 1775, the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British were planning to send troops out from the city to fortify the unoccupied hills surrounding the city, which would give them control of Boston Harbor. In response, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill. The battle took a heavy toll on the British but they thought of it as. a true sense of victory. ]]> 2018-02-01 17:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww/wish/227152485 andersont10 https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww/wish/227153202 For lunch we have the honor to sit with Mr. Booker T. Jackson in Virginia's Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits. Booker T. Washington is speaking about his involvement in helping African-American fight against discrimination. Post-reconstruction for African-Americans only made thing worse with the introduction of Jim Crow laws. Now blacks could not eat where whites did, drink from the "white water fountain" and were forced to sit in the back of the bus. The punishments for these were jail and sometimes hanging. It was the spike of lynching that inspired Washington to write his famous Atlanta Compromise speech. In this speech he challenged African-Americans to fight back against the discrimination using education.  ]]> 2018-02-01 17:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww/wish/227153202 andersont10 https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww/wish/227156452 Our last Stop will be the The Hull House founded by Ms. Jane Addams. Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House opened to recently arrived European immigrants. The settlement houses were very important in serving settling immigrants who came to the cities for work. ]]> 2018-02-01 17:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kimbroughj1/50f1pqwcm6ww/wish/227156452