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This was the Democratic political machine that controlled my hometown of New York and they took money from our town for his own gain
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This is the story of my wonderful life
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When I was born in the 1860's there was no indoor plumbing, no electricity, and we traveled on a horse and buggy. I was born in New York City and born into a lot of wealth with my dad being John D Rockefeller
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My dad John D Rockefeller supported the civil war with money and my uncle fought for the north
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My parents had received a typewriter from the inventors themselves at a party they attended and when I was a young lad I used leave notes for my parents on the magic machine
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During this time period I was around time I was in school learning how to eventually take over my father's business. There was a lot of poverty but the government covered it up and said that the country is in a prosperous time.
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When Alexander Graham Bell (my other uncle) invented the first telephone he created some for all of the family to enjoy
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When the Jim Crow laws came out I was devastated and it just felt like slavery was back in a way. Racial Segregation is terrible and just WRONG. They segregated African Americans by not letting them in the same bathrooms, schools,etc.
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I could finally read in the night time
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At the time the government was very hands off or pursued laissez faire
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Industrialization accelerated very quickly during these years because of new technological innovations, social change and economic growth
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There was a big riot about labor unions and there was a bomb that had detonated and it was a scary time to even try to go to work especially for my dad Mr. Rockefeller
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This was the first city ever to get electricity and this was my hometown and because of my wealth I inherited from my parents my home was one of the first to have it
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This originally was supposed to break up my father's monopoly but it did not outline what a monopoly was so his business was not in trouble
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People think my dad created a monopoly because he was the only provider of a good or service. Also because he used horizontal integration because he bought out all of his competition people think it is a bad thing. At least he didn't control all the steps to make and ship his products
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During the early 90's there was a wave of immigrants coming into our country. They were trying to take the average citizen's job even though mine was safe because of my dad working for Mr. Rockefeller some of the average citizens were very angry
They came to this country because in their country they had no religious freedom and they might have not have had jobs.
Mos immigrants faced culture shock because they didn't know the customs or spoke English. -
Many workers tried to unionize so they could get working conditions but under my dad they were great. They were very uneffective because we turned the public against them
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He was also a monopolizer and one of my father's closest friends
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My second cousin Upton Sinclair was a muckraker or someone who exposed the bad problems in the US
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When Ellis island was created I was furious, all immigrants do is take our jobs, at least they were checked for foreign diseases and had prove that they had a bit of money by having to pay to get in. At both islands people would take a physical, literacy, and us history exams
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Our cousin Micheal Scott was a farmer and was struggling with paying off his debt but my father bailed him out with all of his money
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I just attended a great and powerful speech given by Mr. Bryan and he said that our money should be backed by gold and silver
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I fought in Cuba in the roughriders with Teddy Roosevelt and it was a very quick war because we made Spain very weak very fast
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Imperialism was when the US took over another nation for one of these five reasons nationalism, economic, military bases, humanitarian, and racism/superiority
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I am very glad my dad could trade all over China not just one little sphere of influence
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these were 2 ways blacks were being stopped from voting
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This was a revolutionary tool for doctors all across the US because when President Mckinley was shot the x ray machine could have saved his life
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This fellow WEB Dubois is going about black integration all wrong it should be a gradual thing like Mr. Washington says
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This president was the president during ww1 and he created the 14 points which was when he wanted europe to be peaceful
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He was my favorite president I really wish he would have stayed in office for way longer than two terms. On the contrary I did not like how he broke up my dad's monopoly
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Upton Sinclair published the Jungle in Chicago exposing the meat industry. My father was disgusted by this and the goverment shared the same feeling and put the meat inspection act in place to make the meat cleaner.
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Cities during this time became much more urban. Also there were way more immigrants in my city and the inner city was not very nice to look at.
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There was a Arabian terrorist that killed the archduke of Austria- Hungary and that sparked fighting in Europe
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My wife and I encouraged my son to enlist in the military while we were giving money and supplies to help with the war effort
3 reasons for it was that the arch duke of austria hungary was asssinated
also the german's used unrestricted submarine wrfare
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Our sister in law was on the Lusitania and that was our son's favorite aunt and that pushed him to enlist and take out the Germans
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At home during the war my wife and I bought war bonds that gave money to the government and planted victory gardens so there would be more food to send to the troops
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There was a lot of trench fighting and he could be in a trench for up to a week
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When our president Wilson came up with the 14 points I was very upset. I want to stay neutral and we should not have to deal with Europe anymore
Also the LON is a peace union with all countries but the US di not join because they wanted to stay neutral -
This was a major court case when i was in my 50's when the US limited freedom of speech if it was talk against the war efforts
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3 failures was Germany was harshly punished
Italy and Japan did not get anything
Germany was in so much debt that they turned to Hitler -
My father and I and especially my mother were for women rights my mother attended every one of Carrie Chapman Catt's parades and fundraisers, my father also donated money to her to make all her events possible.
