Transcontinental railroad

The origins of the Civil War are numerous and complex ranging from sectional differences, political and economic differences and most importantly the issue of slavery. Slavery would be the underlying problem in all of these causes. The impact of slavery would strain the country from the birth of the Constitution to the final contentious election of Abraham Lincoln. There were hopes with the writers of the Constitution that slavery would die on its own. This would not happen the growth of cotton…

Missouri Compromise, which split the North and South on the 36 30 latitude line, shows the intensity and length of the debate over slavery. During both time periods, the US had gained land from a foreign power. During the Era of Good Feelings, the transcontinental treaty gained Florida from Spain, while during the pre Civil War time the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gained Texas to California from Mexico. The Monroe Doctrine from 1823, and Manifest Destiny in 1845 were both announcements of…

Overall, Industrialization created lots of new jobs and companies. Along with that came many new inventions that changed the world, like lights, electricity, the Transcontinental Railroad, and the assembly line. But even with that, the negative side of Industrialization had a bigger impact than the positive side. It created things like child labor, horrible working conditions, and a major sanitation issue. Even though Industrialization created lots of positive things, the negative side was much…

Initially the movies made in the 1960’s purposely avoided the subject of the Native Americans strife. Most recently though the movies created in the last twenty-five years documents the attitude change of the White Man in the acknowledgement of their ancestors contributions of the near obliteration of the Native American race. This report will discuss the relationship changes between whites and the Native American since World War II based on the production of historically documented movies.…

were not needed, nor benefited the Northern economy. In the South, the economy was made up of an agricultural society. The North prospered as an industrialized economy because of the development and the invention of new transportation such as the railroad system and canals. The South prospered agriculturally because of the newly discovered Black Belt and Eli Whitney’s invention, the cotton gin. Different events such as the Missouri…

Migration to the Americans was jump started with the arrival of Europeans, who desired resources from the Americas. Unfortunately, the arrival of the Europeans decimated Native American populations and transformed the regions of settlement that the Native Americans had previously populated. European migration to the Americas increased significantly during the 1600s and 1700s. Immigrants were motivated to leave Europe by “enclosed” lands in Europe, lack of economic opportunities, political…

Hasanoanda the Peacemaker: The Story and Impact of a Native American Union soldier, Ely Samuel Parker Owen Arkin A.P. United States History, Period 5 Mr. Rypma May 20, 2016 The date is April 9th, 1865. The Confederate Rebels are severely crippled and the South lies in ruins. The terms of surrender are about to be written and signed at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. As the men begin to sit down and discuss the terms, a conflict arises. Angered and surprised at the…

The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees all Americans equal protection of the laws. Throughout the history of the United States there has been discrimination against specific groups of people. Americans have discriminated against Native Americans, African Americans, and Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans in the past. There is not a time when a national emergency justifies creating laws and rules applicable only to people of a certain ethnic, racial or religious background. Hundreds of native…

Another example of the government coming under pressure from the public was seen in relation to the Indians. The cotton gin broke many boundaries in regard to increasing the cotton production. However, once the gin increased the cotton production, other limits on production presented themselves. The two constraints were of land availability and a lack of slaves. The solution was in an enslaver-related chain of succession – “enslaver-generals took land from Indians, enslaver-politicians convinced…

By the turn of the century, the Transcontinental Railroad’s labyrinthine tracks connected the Eastern and Western United States which shortened cross-country travel by several weeks. The Railroad was evidence of America’s fascination with machines, but also also represented American motion and modernity, literal and figurative progress. Despite ingenuity and opportunity…