Anthracite

For two weeks I have followed around Tommy and his three brothers. Tommy is 11 year old boy work in the coal mines of West Virginia. The reason I choose to spend two is the child labor. This is not only a huge problem in West Virginia but it is also a huge problem throughout the United States of America. More than 60% of the kids in the United States of America are working. Tommy and his brothers wake up every day at 4:30 am and search their house for food. They eat what they can find or…

The American industrial revolution of the 1800s was powered by coal. This newly harnessed energy source is what made the industrial innovations, like the fabrication of steel and iron, of the 1800s possible. In the early days of its mining, 1840, only 7,000 men were mining coal in America, but by 1870 the number of miners increased to 186,000. This increase was only the beginning. In 1900 the number of miners had surged to as many as 677,000. With the increase of workers came the increase of…

Diamond, Coal, Anthracite Plot: The queens fight Kass Setting: Hogwarts college- magic known universe- year 4712 ACT 1 Scene 1 Setting: Principal's Office Time: 10:23 Monday morning. Characters In Scene (CIS): Kass Keets, Venus Salazar, Honey Lao, Jem Knight KASS: Those three creatures are trying to ruin my life! I demand that they be expelled from this school immediately! Midna rubs her temples. - MIDNA: You want me to expel these three brilliant students because you don’t like them? That’s…

Coal and Oil By:Keira Coal and oil have been underground for many years and now people use it as an energy source all around the world. Sometimes coal and oil can be helpful but sometimes it can’t be hurtful. So here are some similarities and differences. Similarities Coal and Oil are nonrenewable because you can’t use it over and over again.Thick muck covered the plants and animals after they died. They both was made underground for millions of years with layers and layers of silt…

the country that rivaled those of earlier labor disputes, President Theodore Roosevelt, in late 1902, thrust himself and the Presidential office into the disagreement that had been going on for many months between the owners and operators of the anthracite coal mines in Pennsylvania and the workers of those mines. Becoming President of the United States after the assassination of President McKinley, President Roosevelt was an impatient activist that wanted a quick resolution to the strike…

When I was a kid growing up in the late 1960s, and early 1970s, my grandfather, Peter Klapatch, used to give me a sip of his beer. I really did not appreciate the flavor, but I pretended that I liked it. He was a retired miner who worked in an anthracite coal mine in Olyphant, Pennsylvania. He drank Stegmaier Gold Medal beer which was brewed in Wilkes-Barre. At the time, grandfathers who had retired from working in the coal mines, and the railroad were infamous for letting their…

Coal is a fuel source used to make electricity and heat through burning. It’s considered a carbon-based fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are fuels formed through natural processes. Coal is a sedimentary rock made from the remains of plants buried in the earth, from about 100 to 400 million years ago. Let’s explore how people use coal. Long ago, North American Indians used coal to bake their clay pottery. By the 1800’s, coal was used to power train engines and steamships, heat homes, and to manufacture…

Wilson were both phenomenal presidents in American history. “Teddy” Roosevelt was our 26th president and had many accomplishments within our country with the “Square Deal.” Roosevelt helped Americans with regulating railroad rates, and resolving the Anthracite Coal Strike in 1902. Woodrow Wilson was our 28th president who defeated TR in the election of 1812. Like TR, he also had many accomplishments with the “New Freedom” deal. Wilson lowered the protective tariff with the Underwood-Simmons…

While all the presidents worked to correct problems during the Progressive Era, Theodore Roosevelt was the most progressive president because he regulated big business, workers rights, and conservation of natural resources The Sherman Antitrust Act was a part of Roosevelt's work of regulating business. Roosevelt used this act when he criticized the wealth of Americans on the account of violence exploding into the public that could destroy the whole system. Roosevelt also used the Pure Food and…

After the civil war ended, immigrants began to colonize in the United States. This made it difficult for the United States government to watch the majority of the population, this would lead to many laws being broken. One of the presidents who were successful to fix a large part of the problems the U.S faced was Theodore Roosevelt. During the 1890s-1920s, United States was in its Progressive Era which was a time period in which there was political reforms across America. During 1901-1909…