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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The initial settlers of the various thirteen colonies generally left a deep impact on the individual cultures and demographics that would later develop there. Jamestown‚ the first successful settlement‚ was initially settled entirely by men‚ young adventurers and “gentlemen‚” with women only arriving later and in smaller numbers. When the Jamestown colonists and those who followed them began to spread out‚ they retained a male-dominated atmosphere even as small tobacco farms grew into enormous plantations
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Demand Complementary Services Reservation Systems Differential Pricing Slide 11 of 29 New Services Realities Customer Empowerment Satisfying Employees Customer Co-production Slide 12 of 29 Root Cause of Customer Failure Slide 13 of 29 What Customers Want from Providers Knowledgeable employees Address needs on first contact Treat me like a valued customer 65% 64% 62% 54% 49% 49% 45% 43% 38% Demonstrates desire to meet my needs Can quickly access information Good value
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The antebellum period refers to the period of time after the War of 1812 and before the start of the Civil War. Throughout this period of time‚ the tension between the abolitionists and the supporters of slavery began to increase which eventually led to the gradual separation of North and the South. With the Industrial Revolution‚ the North’s economy centered upon manufacturing while the South’s economy relied on plantations due to the cotton boom. Cotton was immensely profitable in the South and
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tractions of sculpture and rock painting. North America – hosted some 300 edible animal species and an abundance of salmon and other fish‚ which provided the foundation for what scholars sometimes call “complex or affluent” gathering and hunting cultures. Contrast from that of Australia were the permanent village settlements with large and sturdy houses‚ considerable economic specialization‚ ranked societies that sometimes included slavery‚ chiefdoms dominated by powerful clan leaders or “big men”
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At the beginning of the antebellum age Christianity was heaven bent on reforming sexual attitudes to be rooted in righteous dogma. In the eyes of Christian leadership young‚ innocent‚ growing America had the chance to create a true idealized Christian society. As the Christian leadership noticed that people were losing their bearings on the path toward an idealized holy purpose‚ they armed themselves with rhetoric and searched for the perpetrators that caused the degradation. As time passed and the
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children and adults. However‚ during the 1800s‚ children weren’t so lucky until the Age Of Reform began. During the Antebellum period‚ many more schools were added around the country‚ changing education as we know it. These new schools included education opportunities for the deaf‚ blind and disabled‚ that made life much easier for them. The addition of schools for students with disabilities in the antebellum era gave students
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Tropical Africa and Asia (1200 – 1500) Ibn Battuta 1. Young Muslim scholar 2. Completed the pilgrimage to mecca 3. logged 75‚000 miles of travel in 29 years 4. Powerful states and commercial systems were only made possible by local farmers‚ fishermen and pastoralists Tropical Lands and Peoples The Tropical Environment 1. Africa lies almost entirely within the tropics‚ as do southern Arabia‚ most of India and all of the Southeast Asian mainland and islands 2. In the lands around
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The period I chose to focus on was the Antebellum Period of 1789-1812. From this period the three things I chose to touch upon were the Cotton Gin‚ Early Industrialization and the Rise in Manufacturing in the North‚ and the canal system during the Antebellum Period in American history. This period is considered to be the period right before the civil war and after the War of 1812. It was described by the rise of abolition and the gradual polarization of the country between abolitionists and supporters
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Reformers in the antebellum era were concerned about the lack of religion‚ women’s rights‚ slavery and numerous other social reforms. These important issues were tackled by eloquent speakers like Charles Finney who jump started the Second Great Awakening‚ and people who noticed that they way the people in power were handing things was wrong‚ like Dorothea Dix who created reforms for the mentally ill. The people in the antebellum era made a difference by realizing The Second Great Awakening was a
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