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Sami Lenox Dr. Dryer Biology 157 Greater Prairie Chickens Illinois use to be one of the largest states for Prairie Chickens. Prairie chickens didn’t only dominate the Illinois state but reached out into the entire Midwest, States in this premotor included Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming. Midwest flourished in these creatures. Illinois use to be top contender, with nearly 20 million acres of birds. Boomers (also known as prairies chickens) are a slight larger…

The Transcontinental railroad could be defined as the most epic change in America in the 19th century. The railroad played a very important role in westward expansion and on the growth and development of the American economy, however, the railroad might not have been constructed if it weren’t for the generosity of the federal government. The federal government provided land grants and financial aids to railroad companies to guarantee the construction. The transcontinental railroad contributed to…

Sonora Gillespie Dr. Michael Perri History 1302 6 May 2015 Transformation of the Nation The transcontinental railroad network transformed post-Civil War America into a booming industry. The nation was finally physically bound from coast to coast. The railroad touched numerous phases of American life. It became America’s largest business. It employed thousands of people and made many things possible that could not be done before and of course it made things that could be done before a lot faster…

Rendezvous Rendezvous is a word that means meeting in French. In 19th century America, rendezvous referred to meetings in the west at a designated place to trade furs and goods. The majority of rendezvous happened in the Rocky Mountain region and frequently occurred in Indian villages. Rendezvous started in the year 1810 and continued throughout the better part of the century up to the 1880’s. Rendezvous lasted anywhere from a couple days to several weeks (Harris 42). Rendezvous impacted…

The Chinese immigrants What do you think about when you hear Chinese Immigrants, when I think about them I think about them having moved to the United States while racism was going on around that time. Many of the chinese immigrants went to America where money was everywhere, at least that is what they thought. A lot of that stuff happened, and the outcomes for them did not turn out as well as you would think it would. An interesting question of how this all started. What was pushing the…

love and am passionate about, is there. Leaving the Midwest to live out in the actual West is something I have been longing to do since I was a little girl. On our yearly trips to Wyoming and Colorado, I would stare up at the unforgiving cliffs of Rocky Mountain Range in awe and wonder. My family’s ski trips are the one thing I look forward to most each winter. Skiing is something I have been passionate about all my life. Despite only having the oh-so monstrous bunny hills we call ski…

The Transcontinental Railroad was not only the first massive mode of transportation to connect coast to coast for the United States but it was a race, a major source of immigration, culture, and the livelihood for many who worked on it. Building the railroad wasn’t an easy feat, it had grueling trials on both the manual and non-manual side of the process. The financing for the railroad constituted finding loopholes to get the most government funding possible and finding investors. While the…

The Transcontinental Railroad, when completed, was 1776 miles long, stretching the expanse of the newly formed USA. The two sides of the rails were united in 1869 in Promontory, utah, by a golden spike truck into the ground by Leland Stanford. The TRR shaped the united states by uniting the sections of the east, west, north, and south. The social impact was enormous, by encouraging immigration to distant places in the newly settled west. Sadly, there were also negative effects of the uniting,…

The Transcontinental Railroad was a great achievement of America, and no one shall forget how incredible this railroad is. The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built in the 1860s, linking the well developed railway network of the Eastern coast with rapidly growing California. The main line was officially completed on May 10, 1869. It was a challenging mission, to make it so people and cargo can make it to coast to coast quickly and economically. The two companies that…

of always being “high”. Pardon the pun. But this all has to do with the biggest thing in Colorado, the most monumental, and of course, the highest. The Rocky Mountains. Starting in New Mexico and spanning all the way to all the way to Canada for a total of 3,000 miles. They run across Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. But the Colorado Rockies are particularly beautiful. The spring runoff brings green trees all the way through summer. Fall brings fantastic colors of orange, red, and brown.…