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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 east when Dewitt Clinton, Governor of New York, began overseeing the construction of the Erie Canal. The goal of the canal was to connect the Hudson river in New York City to Buffalo, New York. The canal was nicknamed Clinton's Ditch due to the overwhelming lack of support for the project. When the project was finished in 1825 its…

Blue Highways were written by William Least Heat-Moon. It was first published in 1982. There are 10 or 11 chapters if you include the afterword chapter. The other book I chose was called Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck. It was first published in 1962. There are 3 chapters I believe in the book they are called part 1, part 2 and part 3. The book Blue Highways doesn’t have an intro or a prologue, but it has a foreword page and it talks about what you will be reading. The book Travels with…

timber and had lots of game animals to hunt. This land was also good for many soldiers to settle because it had all the material these soldiers needed to keep living (Lorant 32). The French actually built a few forts in the area, including one on Lake Erie and one in present day Franklin, PA. A young George Washington was sent to the French fortification to try and capture the land, but they were forced to surrender to the French, making this the first of Washington's multiple escape…

Mechelle Chang AP World Period 3 January 8,2014 Chapter 15 IDs Chapter Thesis During the early modern era, the global economy was marked by slave trade across the Atlantic, plantations in the Americas, silver commerce between the new and old worlds, and fur trade in Europe and Asia. African diaspora- The transatlantic spread of African peoples through the Atlantic slave trade during the post-Columbian era. The spread of African people into new societies (the Americas) sparked issues of race…

A plantation owner from Kentucky named Arthur Shelby had large amounts of debt, and he faced losing all that he had. Although he and his wife, Emily were nice to the slaves that they owned, Shelby sold a couple of his slaves to a man named Mr. Haley, a slave trader. The two slaves that he sold are named Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man, and Harry, the son of Emily’s maid named Eliza. When Shelby informs his Emily about the sale of their two slaves, she is disgusted because she has sworn to Eliza…

The recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in the United States can be a quite confusing and complex matter. To begin with, every judgment not from the state in which enforcement is sought, is considered a “foreign judgment” regardless of whether the judgment is from another state within the United States or a foreign country. Luckily for foreign judgments from sister states, the Full Faith and Credit Clause of Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution applies.…

I sat bolt upright in bed. A calypso sounding music was playing very loud from my alarm clock on my right side. Sunlight was streaming in through the windows. I swung my legs over the side of the mattress and stretched a bit. I noticed that the sunlight seemed a bit bright for 6:30am in October. There shouldn't be any sunlight yet, I thought to myself. I snatched my phone off my bedside table and checked the time. 8:42am, Tuesday, October 15th. Class started at 7:30. I was late. I jumped out of…

I observed as well as participated in one of the fundamental traditions in the Catholic Church, Sunday Mass. A key element in the Christian faith is the idea of community. Mass is defined as a religious community gathering together under one roof to receive the grace of God. The aspect of individuality is not as important in Christian religious worship as the central idea of community. The sacrament of the Eucharist as well as the church itself signifies the relationship between the worshippers…

1. The Northeast was one of the first to industrialize because it was the first to have factories. Factories was what made the Industrialist Revolution take off. Their success helped promote more machines. Before steam, the North used water from rivers for their mills. America overall had an abundance of natural resources compared to Europe, however the South had plantations and cash crops. They focused on producing large-scale agriculture verses subsistence, like in the North. Also, in the…

The War of 1812 was considered a “second war for independence” from Britain – the first one being the Revolutionary War. Britain had, once again, strained foreign relations with the United States by ordering the impressment of American sailors and seizing cargo ships; even though George Washington had declared neutrality. However, due to a lack in communication, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were unaware that Britain had began to respect their maritime neutrality and it subsequently…