The steamboat craze happened during the turnpike craze. It was started by an engineer named Robert Fulton who installed a steam engine in a vessel that became known as the Clermont but was nicknamed Fulton’s Folly. One day in 1807‚ the little ship churned steadily from New York City up the Hudson River toward Albany which was 150 miles in 32 hours. The success was amazing. People could now defy wind‚ waves‚ tides‚ and downstream currents. Carrying capacity doubled. Keelboats went up the Mississippi
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1. Federal land grants- Recognizing that western railroads would lead the way to settlement‚ the federal government provided railroad companies with huge subsidies in the form of loans and land grants. The government expected that the railroad would make every effort to sell the land to new settlers to finance construction. 2. Transcontinental railroad-During the Civil War‚ Congress authorized land grants and loans for the building of the first transcontinental railroad totie California to the
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1. The Changing American Population 1. The American Population‚ 1820-1840 • The population increased rapidly • Much of it was moving from the countryside into the industrializing cities of the NE and NW • Much of it was migrating westward • Pop growth was due to improvements in public health and high birth rates • Immigration‚ choked off by wars in Europe and economic crises in America‚ contributed little to the American population in the first 3 decades of the 19th cent but revived beginning
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Technology Advances in Antebellum America The Era of 1800 to 1860 proved to be some of the most technologically advanced years of the 19th century. This Era saw a rapid technological change in communications‚ travel. Through these advances helped the United States grow and prosper. Communication was now possible from the most populated to the least populated areas of the country. Telegraph wires stretched from north to south and east to west. The introduction of the Pony Express allowed the
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OP Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform Section: The Romantic Impulse 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7. 8. 5. Section: Remaking Society 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Section: The Crusade against Slavery 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 1. The first great school of American painters emerged in New York; Frederic Church‚ Thomas Cole‚ Thomas Doughty‚ and Asher Durand- which they also painted the spectacular vistas of the rugged and still largely unsettled Hudson Valley. 2. The first great
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Background Info: The Cold War between the US and the USSR was a long‚ complicated era of fear‚ tension‚ and animosity. Right after World War II‚ the U.S and the USSR started having ideological and political disputes over territories and ammunition. This became a full blown Cold War when Berlin was blockaded by the Soviets but was aided by America with an airlift. As Winston Churchill‚ prime minister of Britain‚ had said‚ an iron curtain had descended between the East and the West‚ communist and noncommunist
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“The 1950’s were an era of conformity and complacency.” Give reasons for either agreeing or disagreeing with this statement. The statement‚ “The 1950’s were an era of conformity and complacency”‚ is untrue to a certain extent. Though it is true that the post WWII America has the highest standard of living that no other countries can match‚ the 1950s‚ backed by the Second Red Scare‚ really had been a time period of tension and anti-communism. The 1950s‚ inspired by the Soviet nuclear spying
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1. In antebellum America‚ was the main source for “literacy and political discourse”? • In antebellum America‚ the main source for “literacy and political discourse” was printer and steam press. 2. How does the economy relate to literacy as suggested pages 1-2? • If the literacy develops‚ the economy will develop too. The development of the economy leads to earn more benefit and power. 3. What have past scholars/researches said about literacy? (p.2) • They said about literacy that literacy
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In antebellum America‚ abolitionists used a variety of tactics to achieve their ends‚ from calling for violence to appealing to religious sentiments—often even combining the two approaches. Many abolitionists such as John Brown and David Walker foresaw that any dismantling of the South’s “peculiar institution” would foment bloodshed. In his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World‚ David Walker writes that only after “my color [has rooted] some of them out of the very face of the earth…they shall
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1. Computer output which is displayed on the screen of a terminal without a permanent copy is called— (A) Soft copy (B) Hard copy (C) Hardware (D) None of these Ans : (A) 2. A storage device or medium where the access time is dependent upon the location of the data is called— (A) Serial access (B) Parallel access (C) Null access (D) None of these Ans : (A) 3. The set of computer programs‚ procedures‚ and associated documentation related to the effective operation of a computer system
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