Erie Canal

played key roles in American expansion. Canals and railroads set a path connecting towns and settlements. Trains and boats featuring steam engines carried goods needed to sustain life and luxury in these places. The tin can made it possible to transport previously perishable goods. Although all of these made expansion possible, one invention in particular made southerners want to expand; the cotton gin. These inventions catalyzed US expansion in the 1800’s. Canals spread throughout the north…

Imagine the U.S.A. divided between each other. The North was its own union and the South was too. During the 1800s this is how most of America was almost. They weren't unions, but each side had their own aspects of life. Between the free slave states mostly in the North and slave states being in the South, each American citizen had his/her own opinion. Which all of this made up two different sides of the U.S.A. for sometime. These difference not only affected America during that time, but left a…

Our Nations Transformation Originally sent to this continent in search of a better life and religious freedom, Pilgrims and Puritans began to set up their new lives in Massachusetts in the 1600s. In the years to follow many more people arrived and set up settlements along the east coast of what is now America. Every colony had a different reason for being created, from freedom of religion to rich soil for farming, it was all about making themselves a better life. Although an ocean away they…

HOW DID THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT TRANSFORM AMERICA? American Westward Movement is the process that people from the settled regions of the United States to lands farther west. The great west means stretching from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and it was subdivided into two sections: the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast. This westward movement, across what was often called the American frontier, was of enormous…

Manifest Destiny is a 19th Century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American Continents was both justified and inevitable. Several people in the 1800s and 1850s believed in Manifest Destiny. During Westward Expansion vast amounts of land was open the further west the Americans traveled no one knew where it ended. Americans had fought hard for America and were not going to give up on their country. Expanding west was no doubt America's fate. The growing population and…

After the American Revolution, the United States underwent a decade of political and economic unrest under the rule of the Articles of Confederation. Then, our nation adopted the Constitution. The document reshaped our nation economically, politically, and socially, from a vulnerable, divided nation to a powerful, stable nation. However, now, our nation had a traditional economic system, which focused mainly on agriculture, and enormous resources that waited to be exploited (lecture October 25).…

New roads were being built, steamboats were being used to travel rivers. In 1825 the Erie Canal was completed, linking the Great Lakes to New York City. The United States was becoming more urbanized and industrialized. Americans were being urged to flee the cities and move westward. American Yawp, Chapter 12. Although the term “Manifest Destiny”…

The Kilgour Family Streetcar thrived in Oakley until 1951, when it no longer served the public’s needs. Accompanied by high fares and inefficient routes, Oakley’s residents did not contest the termination of streetcar operations. Although the Kilgour Family Streetcar was key in the characterization and urbanization of Oakley, it was not the only failed transit-stop on the journey to finding the light at the end of the tunnel for Oakley; the light signifying an efficient, reliable transportation…

manufacturing. In the early nineteenth century the market revolution expanded the marketplace by means of transportation, such as the construction of new railroads and canals that interconnected for the first time. The Erie Canal provided a successful source of transportation. Dewitt Clinton passed a bill to provide the funds to build the canal, which in turn stimulated the economy. With the rise of economic growth from the market revolution problems begin to arise. Although the changes brought…

traveled across Lake Erie. The people who lived in the Cleveland area were the first ones in Ohio to contract cholera. This disease was more virulent in the cities because these places had poor sanitation systems.…