Electoral Votes

1876- The Republican party, and it received 13 electoral votes
1880- The Republican party again, with 13 electoral votes
1884- The Republican party, with 14 electoral votes
1888- The Republican party, with 14 electoral votes

 For the most part all of New England votes for the same party, except for Connecticut, they voted for the opposite party every time.

2008- both candidates were part of the Democratic party, but Massachusetts voted for Hillary Clinton
2014- Massachusetts voted for the the Democratic party with 11 electoral votes

 I noticed that in earlier elections Massachusetts voted for the Republican party and now they mostly vote for the Democratic. Also I noticed that all of New England voted for the same party now. Lastly I noticed that all the states in the Us vote now, rather them before when it was just New England and the west mostly.

Electoral college results in 1888

Electoral college results in 2010

Oil Boom

 Oil was discovered in Texas by the Hamel brothers. Oil has a big impact on the way we live life today. A short term impact is that it made cars possible. If there was no oil then we wouldn't be able to drive around the way we do today. Henry Ford invented an assemble line to make it easier to create cars. In the assembly line each person had a job and they did the same thing all day. The long term impact oil had on the us is that it makes the us Mobil in ways they never were before, now we use oil for almost everything  because its a natural resource and its cheap.

 Did you know oil is used to make these products too?
- Dresses
- Cd players
- Purses
- Shoes
- Paint

A Map of where there are a lot of oil reserves in the US

Back then when they drilled oil they would first start off by drilling a starter hole, they drill a surface hole to pre-set depth. Then once the meet the pre-set depth they start placing casing pipes in the hole to prevent it from collapsing on itself. lastly they pump mud down a casing pipe to build the hole deeper.

oil is drilled now pretty much the same way it was before 

in 1913 Ford invented the assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile.it made the process of building a car go from more than 12 hours to 2 hours and 30 minutes. In this line each person had a specific job and did that one job the whole time.

Oil consumption in the US

U.S imports in 2007

Election Day

 Election day is always the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.It is always on a Tuesday because back then people had to travel far to get to the voting and it was not reasonable to have it on Monday because they did not start traveling until Sunday.

Election day is not determined by nothing other than that it is held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Election day is on Tuesday because before people would have to travel far to vote. It is unreasonable to have it be on a Monday because people start traveling on Sunday and would not make it to the place in time. Election Day is a civic holiday in some states including Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, West Virginia, the territory of Puerto Rico

The three branches of federal government

The new MA governor

The MA state flag

Far and Away

During the 1890's industrialization started happening in the United States, factories started and people started building railroads. A lot of immigrants started moving to the United states, and had to live in the houses called tenet houses. In these houses lived many people, they were assigned a room with one bed, and sometimes with other families. In Ireland it was very unfair, in the movie the father didn't pay the rent and the person that owns the house burned it down. In the movie Shannon and Joseph move to the united states from Ireland, and have to work in factories and fight to make money.

United States in the 1890's

Ireland in the 1890's