What Ive learned from everyone

After looking at Zac's, Troy's, and Will's papers, I have learned more than I thought i might learn. Zac taught me about how the Brooklyn Bridge was made and how thankful everyone was of it, so they didnt have to travel 2 hours everyday on a ferry to Brooklyn. Troy taught me about how subways affected people traveling to jobs outside of Manhattan. Will, taught me nothing. Just kidding, Will showed me how the president viewed football and his actions for it.  

Professional Football

   "TOUCHDOWN," one of the most famous words now in the 21st century. But during the 20th century, that word was just beginning to be used. The NFL is what changed football as we know it today. The NFL was formed in 1922, out of the American Professional Football Association (APFA) which was founded in 1920.

Baller 

   Since the NFL was not formed until 1922, college football was more prominent even after the NFL was founded. The main attendee's of the NFL games were college students. Before the NFL was created, the better players were getting paid $250/game. If you ask me, that's great back then, doing what you love and still making bank. If there was an important game the colleges would pay players even more. Michigan paid Heston $600 for one game, and they ended  up winning 14-4. Also, coaches were being paid very little, and coach Pop Warner was being paid $34/week.

Willie Heston

Jim Thorpe

   Some of the greatest players that would ever play football derived from this time period like Charles Follis, Willie Heston, and Jim Thorpe. Charles Follis was the first African-American pro football player. His common nickname was the "Black Cyclone," he went to sign for the Shelby Athletic Club. Willie Heston was a three time All American halfback. He scored between 90-100 touchdowns for the University of Michigan. The last and the best football player of the time was Jim Thorpe. Jim Thorpe played for Carlisle Indian School, he was known as one of the "star players," during the twentieth century. Thorpe was very cocky in the manner where he thought he couldn't be tackled. Thorpe became a running back, as well as kicker. He was said to have been able to play ever position better than anyone on the field. (Most from the same website.)

Typical Flyer for a Game

   The first teams of the APFA were the: Akron Professionals, Buffalo All-Americans, Canton Bulldogs, Chicago Cardinals, Cleveland Tigers, Columbus Panhandles, Dayton Triangles, Decatur Staleys, Detroit Heralds, Hammond Pros, Muncie Flyers, Rochester Jeffersons, and Rock Island Independents. These teams were created in the year 1920. Most teams dropped out on the year 1921, and one of the most famous teams today became affiliated; Green Bay Packers. Also, the Decatur Staleys changed their name to a more recognizable name; Chicago Bears. These are the origins of the more modern day teams, except most to all changed their names. (website)

   Football has changed spectator sports as we know it today. Wages have increased a dramatic amount, as well as the types of people who go to the games. Now the middle class to the wealthy upper class attend professional football games. There are even box seats people can own now. Football will keep changing more and more as the years progress, and we all hope they will change for the good, or at least I hope they do. (website)

The old and the new

Professional Football

I am doing a project on professional football, and I am getting pretty far on my research. I plan to have a few sources by tomorrow and then I will need to get 2 more primary sources. Mrs. Lawson, i appreciate you helping me with my project also.

Friday's Homework, 10/21

1. The most powerful union in the country was the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, which was affiliated with the AFL. Their members were skilled workers, in great demand by employers and thus had significant power in the workplace. 
2. By the mid-1880's, the steel industry had introduced new production methods and new patterns of organization that were streamlining and steel making process and, at the same time, reducing the companies' dependence on skilled labor.
3. By 1890, Carnegie and his chief lieutenant, Henry Clay Frick, had decided that the Amalgamated "had to go," even at Homestead. Over the next two years, they repeatedly cut wages at Homestead.
4. In 1892, the Amalgamated call fir a strike because Frick announced another wage cut at Homestead. 
5. When this strike happened, Frick abruptly shut down the plant and called in 300 guards from the Pinkerton Detective Agency. 
6. When the Pinkertons show up, the strikers prepared for them by pouring oil on the water and setting it on fire, and they met guards at the docks with guns and dynamite.
7. The governor of Pennsylvania, at the company's request, sent the state's entire nation Guard contingent, some 8,000 troops to Homestead. 
8. The amalgamated was symbolic of the general erosion of union strength in the late nineteenth century, as factory labor became increasingly unskilled and workers thus became easier to replace.
9. The employees lived in houses that the company built. They did not like the regimentation and the high rates. 
10. Workers at the Pullman factory went on strike because they slashed wages by 25%, citing the declining revenues the depression was causing. 
11. Eugene Debs led the American Railway Union. Debs's union instructed its members who worked for the offending companies to walk off their jobs.
12. John Peter Altgeld, was the governor for Illinois. He refused to call out the militia to protect employers now, because he felt sympathy for the workers. 
13. Railroad operators asked the federal government to send regular army troops to Illinois, on the pretext that the strike was preventing the movement of mail on the trains. 
14. Labor weakness are obvious in this passage, because wages for workers rose hardly at all, state laws governing hours and labor and safety standards, and gradually some guaranteed compensation for workers injured on the job. This left workers with less political power and considerably less control of the workplace than they had had forty years before.

Immigration

  When people think about being a nation of immigrants, they think about the bad that comes from it. But, in reality more good has come from it than bad. Immigrants brought along new languages, religions, and cultures. This is why the United States is such a diverse place, and the ideal place for one to live.

   The reason this is an ideal place to live is not only because of those three facts, but because of all the freedom that U.S. gives to its people. One of my ancestors came from the Philippines, so I understand what it is like to be culturally diverse. She's always telling me stories about the life on her mansion and how wonderful it was, but i wish i could see it in person. This is how immigrants effect me and my life. 

Thursday homework

Individual unions of skilled crafted workers helped to stand up against the new corporate economies.

Changing America

 In "Faces of America," Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows us, some celebrities backgrounds. By seeing this, I can see how important our ancestors are to our lives. When Henry Gates talks to each one of the celebrities, they are astonished to see and hear what he is showing and telling them.
 I think that learning and knowing about ones' ancestors is important for everyone, because it can influence the way one grows up and how they get to where they are. Many ancestors come from outside of the United States but, they always end up inside of the United States. One would appreciate learning about their ancestors, because who doesn't want to learn about where your family came from or what they did for a living. Many people are very surprised when they figure out what they ancestors did.    

John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller was in the oil business. He used intimidation, force, and strong force tactics. Standard oil controlled 90% of all refinery operations in the U.S. This made some Americans fear that free enterprise system was in danger. He made a brilliant plan that was the Standard Oil trust. Which is the mechanism by which monopolies were created.

First Post

This will be my first and last post.