Life Out West

welcome back history fans!! today in class we were looking at old newspapers from the Western Frontier!! i mainly focused on Oregon, and I found the CUTEST town called Astoria. In the 1870s, not much was happening in Astoria, except that two alligators ate a man in South Georgia! news travels fast!! 

since Astoria is located on the Columbia River, there were a lot of pictures of boats! like this one 

this is Astoria from a birds eye view!!

this is a salmon cannery in astoria, it is located on the columbia river



this newspaper showed me a little piece of the west in the 1870s, not only did it talk about alligators, but it talked about Lincoln before he died, the feminine economy and even had a feature on the Eastern states! The Daily Astorian, also talked about the restaurants and hotels in the town, the different jobs available and different ads in different cities.

newspaper article

until next time!

xoxo
ellie

Summary of Human Trafficking

hello history lovers!! today i am talking about human trafficking. as scary as it sounds it is happening all around us today even in the united states!! there are many types of human trafficking, whether it is sex trafficking or for forced labor they both involve kidnapping and people being forced against their will. i mainly focused on forced child marriages (which you can see in my previous blog post) which is mainly focused around the middle east region. I learned from this that it is a much bigger problem than we believe, even though we say that "the girls aren't our problem" or "we don't live there" but it is very serious. when a young girl is forced into a marriage, they have a very high risk of dying, whether its from HIV/AIDS (from their spouse) or complications in pregnancy/childbirth. these child deaths need to stop, millions of young girls die every year that don't need too. what i learned is that forced marriage, forced ANYTHING is scary!! and we are SO fortunate to live in our home where we are free to marry who we want and live how we want.

thanks for reading!!

xoxo

ellie