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What is ragtime

Ragtime music is the rhyme of how people danced and played when they where back in the 1800s. The Jim Crow Era was a post of the civil war Ragtime Music The main instrument used is the piano It was most popular between 1897-1918 The most famous rag-time composers were: Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, James Scott. Different styles of ragtime The Cakewalk, is an traditional African American form of music. This type of music was originally known as chalk-line music. Lots of the slaves would dance to this type of music. It gets it's name from on the plantations they held competitions the best dancer would get cake. Two-Step, is a dance with two steps in the same direction Slow Drag, it is associated with early ragtime, quite a lot of rags are slow drags Coon Song, it is a ragtime in a vocal form Ragtime Song Folk Ragtime Folk Rags Classic Rag Fox Trot Novelty Piano Stride Piano Was first introduced in America Scott Joplin's Maple-Leaf Rag inspired lot of other composers to write their own ragtime pieces. This sparked a nationwide craze. If you are in 9S please don't use this for music seeing as this is my work.

Who is a shareholder

A shareholder owns stock in a corporation.

What is a shareholder

A shareholder is some one who invests money in a company or buys part of your company to receive part of the profits in the form of shares.

Major invention in 1880

The light bulb by Thomas A. Edison

Are members of the poor working class proletariat

Not only the poor people, it's the who working class

What was one cause for improvements in the slums

Jacob Riis' book, How the Other Half Lives

Why did people develop leisure time activities

People worked shorter weeks and fewer hours.

Why was it hard to do laundry in tenements

there was no water in many tenements.

What did catalogs from companies such as Sears and Roebuck do

Allowed rural families to become consumers

Catalogs from big named stores give customers a chance to shop from home. When ordering from a catalog you can have the stuff shipped to your home.

Why did working people get five day workweeks

Workers got a five-day workweek because the BCEA protects and respect the rights of the employees.

Labor leaders and other groups demanded it.

What was the spoils system

when the group that wins an election appoints its own unqualified people to the best jobs apex

Which of these controls prices and availability in an industry

Monopoly ~ APEX :)

Most farmers who lived in the west and south depended on to carry their wheat cotton and tobacco to market

freight trains

What was the idea of the weekend

New

When Riis wrote kicks and cuffs are their daily diet. They have little else. What was he describing

When Jacob Riis wrote "kicks and cuffs are their daily diet. They have little else." he was referring to the lamentable daily hardship of the street children.

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