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During the mid and late 1800s, classical music was popular, including composers like Beethoven, Chopin, and Elgar.
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Mary Jones was born in Cork, Ireland to Mary and Richiard Harris.
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Richiard fled the country for fear of being killed and waited to have enough money and then sent it to his family.
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The cash register was another ivention. James Ritty was worried who would run his saloon while he was gone so he invented this machine to keep track of sales.
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The Underground Railroad was not actually a railroad, it was a passage that went all the way up to freedom. Slaves used this to escape from their horrible lives. In 1838, the Underground Railroad was formally organized.
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Mary Harris met George E. Jones in 1861 and later married him.
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The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves. Of course not right away. In 1883 New Years the final signiature by Abraham Lincoln.
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Ku Klux Klan was a violent group that had it out for Africian-Americans and other minorities. They'ed burn crosses and come in with their white robes and struck fear into peoples eyes.
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Ford's Theatre was home to many great plays. 1863 the theatre was finally built. No one knew that just 2 years later Ford's theater would be remembered for such a dark crime. On April 9 1865, while president Lincoln was watching a play, he was shot by an actor, Jhon Wilkes Booth.
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Mary's family got in contact with the deadily plague, Yellow fever, and one by one each of them died,Yelow fever is carried by mosquitos and if infected a persons eyes and skin turns yellow,in some cases a person will vomt a blackish liquid and slowly die.
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Alaska is the biggest U.S state. Formally owned to Russia, Alaska was bought for 7.2 billion dollars.
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Plastic is used today in many things today. In the 1860s they would pay $10,000 to anyone who found something that would replace ivory, so th elephant population wouldnt deplete. Plastic was the winner.
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For years women have'nt been able to vote, But in1870, finally women got the chance to vote, It was only Wyoming but it was a start to womens rights.
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After that huge fire that destroyed "the windy city" , Mother Jones took people in, almost like a mother. She fed them and sooner or later people were calling her "Mother Jones"
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In 1871 a cow tipped over a lantern, and in a couple of hours the the city of Chicago was engulfed in flames. The fire took Mary's home and dress shop. Mary saw all the homless people and that changed her. She knew some places looked like this and t
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In the 1870s the buffalo population started to decrease. More than 3 millian buffalos were slaughtered.
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Today many people use telephones. It all started in 1876. Alexander Graham Bell introduced the telephone in the late 1800s. 2 yrs later more than 10,000 people were using phones.
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Since factories had grown in the last couple of years railroads were in demand. Realizing that it cost to much to pay workers hireres cut wages. This brought a stir through workers rights and
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George Eastman made the first flexible film, then made camearas with rolls of films.
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1882 the project began in France and finished in 1884. Finially the french shipped it over and crates and it was ressembled and dedecated to the US.
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Mother Jones went from state to state and got 15,000 workers to quit their jobs and go on strike. This made the country come to a hault. After a while the companys finally had no choice but to give them what they wanted.
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Mary Jones who was now called "Mother Jones" travled to West virginia to establish a new branch to enforce better working conditions and beter pay. This led to a whole new step up in Miners rights.
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Months later Mother Jones wrote to president Roosevelt, but didn,t get a reply. So as stuburn as she was she walked 125 miles at the age of 73 and went to have a talk with Roosevelt.
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Mother Jones just celebrated her 100th birthday. Now getting weaker and having pneumonia, Mother Jones died . She died at 11:15 on Sunday November 30. The death of a great leader brought many people to her funeral.
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62 years later Mother Jones for all her hard work was inducted into the Labor Hall of Fame in Washington D.C.
