Bridge of the Americas

its self around spending time with family. All things considered, the industrial life in America, as illustrated in "Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper", took away from family life . Accordingly, Americans, including those in the tale of Sam Patch, developed ways to respond to the travesties caused by industrialization. Notably, male industrial workers like Sam Patch responded by "jumping from the bridge into the river below the falls". Others responded by becoming ‘very riotous and…

The United States stands for tolerance and unity, but the KKK is a divisive force and a danger to our society. The KKK believes in white supremacy, that the white is superior, that America should only be made up of true white Christians. In order to be a member, you must be 100% white and Christian. Have seen themselves as a Christian organization, but the Klan has been motivated by theological and political ideologies. These were and…

The Inca Road System The Inca empire is considered by many to be the most successful empire in the history of South America. They were a people who built an empire along the west coast of South America. It flourished for about a hundred years through some of the 13th and 14th centuries until the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquered them. One way that they were able to progress to such an extent is through their long and advanced road system, which itself flourished in many ways. It…

The Men Who Built America Episode 1 starts 5 Days after the Civil War, which was known as the bloodiest conflict with 6,000 deaths adding one of the greatest, Abraham Lincoln. This episode was about how the railroads had come together. The railroads started with Cornelius Vanderbilt. He began his journey starting with a single ferry that had later on become many ships. His ships were used to transport goods. Vanderbilt later on in life then decided to sell all of ships and invest in railroads.…

competition, creating the largest railroad company. harlem , Hudson, and Central all meet in the middle on New York to create the largest building in NY, consisting of 22 acres, the Grand Central depot. vanderbilt owns 40% of the railroads lines in america. Chicago to new york is the most valuable railroad, this route is called the Erie Line. This route was also not Vanderbilt’s. He desperately wanted the Erie Line, therefore he demanded to buy them out by the end of the week. Little did the…

are some who are just scraping to get by, and in the middle are those who are working just to make enough to live a comfortable life. According to the film, Inequality For All it focuses on former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich and his push to wake America up and see that the gap between the rich and the poor is continuing to get wider and how we are letting it happen right before our eyes. Reich, whose ideas and methodologies as to why the phenomena of the giant gap continue to happen, show the…

hunters and gatherers traveled in boats along the Pacific Coast line and into the Americas. This theory can neither be totally confirmed nor denied because of the rise in sea level and therefore lack of evidence. Although there is no definite proof of this model, seafaring cultures found in the Pacific Rim support that people may have traveled from Asia into the Americas by boat. Another theory on the population of the Americas is the Ice Free Corridor. The Ice Free Corridor is a pathway between…

really discover the Americas on his own? No, it is known that millions of people lived in the Americas before Columbus. For most of human history, archaeologists have found modern humans originating from Africa about 400,000 years ago (Of The People, 4). During the last ice age, glaciers expanded that the sea level dropped and created a land bridge between Siberia in Asia and Alaska in America. Many humans that were hunting big game traveled along the new bridge into America. This was the very…

I interviewed my dad and he just so happened to be in New York and not in Old Bridge, New Jersey. Being that I am only a sophomore now, I was merely 4 months old still not have breathed my first breath of air yet. My dad’s reaction at the time of the interview was rather shocked and surprised, but not depressed as he had known no one directly involved in 9/11. Living in an apartment on what he remembers, Cortlandt St. He was only staying there for about a week, and it was going his last day…

The Keystone Bridge Company was founded after a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge burned down. Carnegie worked with John L. Piper and Schiffler to build bridges out of iron instead of wood (Carnegie 116). One of this company’s major accomplishments was the St. Louis Bridge that was built across the Mississippi River (Nasaw 135). Carnegie realized after many failures that iron was not strong enough so he decided to use steel. After seven years of construction the St. Louis Bridge was completed…