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1898-1929 Last week we talked about Hans Mattson, but this week, we’re going to talk about someone that I honestly found quite interesting. ✨Sadie Browne✨. As I read Sadie's life story, I kept think to myself “I could never do what Sadie did”. Granted, it was normal for kids to start a young age, but Sadie wasn’t just working. By thirteen, she was living alone, paying her own rent, and buying her own clothes/groceries, all while having a stable job. At thirteen I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere without an adult. Let's dig deeper into her life so that you get a better understanding of where I'm coming from.  At a young age, Sadie's father died, and her mother was left to provide for her and Sadie, as well as pay rent for their family-owned shop. As a woman making $6 a month, you can guess this was nearly impossible. Her mother decided to leave Poland and move to the "wonderful" America to try and make easier money. Shortly after arriving, unfortunately Sadie'...

      ~19th Century~    Let's start with ✨Hans Mattson ✨, a Swedish, man who heard through the grapevine that North America was an opportunity to start a new and productive life. "But we knew that it was a new country, inhabited by a free and independent people, that it had a liberal government and great natural resource" (Blaisdell, 2013). Hans jumped at the opportunity just as thousands of others in the 19th century. A man with no knowledge of the English language, and only a friend to accompany his set out to Boston.  Shortly, after arriving in America, Hans was hit with challenge after challenge. From becoming extremely ill to being poor, even faced the possibility of losing his fingers. Hans realizes that maybe America wasn’t rainbows and kittens. He was sold a dream and given a nightmare. To be fair, Hans did make a lot of friends along the way, but none really stuck around.  In a nutshell, America wasn’t exactly what Hans expected it to be. Just...

    Hello, my fellow bloggers and blog  readers. My name is Tyana, and to be completely honest I don't know really know what to write about, so I'm just going to wing it. I'm an extreme introvert who likes to read, binge-watch TV shows/movies and traveling. I have a weird obsession with ketchup, I basically put it on everything (Please don't judge me, I know it's weird!!) On my off days I like to spend my time doing makeup and cooking, but I don't really get a lot of free time. This blog is really going to consist of the things I'm learning in my American History Class. 9 times out of 10 I won't know what's going on that class, so we're going to learn together.  Hopefully this blog will allow me to actually understand and obtain knowledge instead of being confused. If I'm able to explain the things I learned clearly than I must be doing something right. I'm going to stop here before I put even more weird thing here. I tend to blabber alo...