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Slide 34
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Author: Albert Einstein
Slide 35
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
We are going to read The Great Fire by Jim Murphy.
This was a great disaster, but it also showed the heroism and determination Americans had to survive and rebuild.
Every disaster always made our country safer by creating new safety laws…notice how many of the disasters were almost 100 years ago!
Slide 36
“A City Ready to Burn”
What do you think it means?
Does the title really mean fire?
What would make a city “ready” to burn?
Practice inferring and predicting
Contents
- Great Disasters
- Sultana Explosion
- Sultana
- The General Slocum Disaster
- The Great Johnstown Flood
- The Great Drought
- Galveston Hurricane
- Blizzard of 1888
- Influenza Pandemic of 1918
- The San Francisco Earthquake
- The Wisconsin Forest Fire
- October 8th 1871 Another disaster is smoldering…
- The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
- “A City Ready to Burn”
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