distributed around the country‚ as well as the rest of the world. That led to the invention of canals. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution (around 1750)‚ roads simply could not handle heavy goods and the vehicles needed to move these produces did not exist.5 The first canal was completed in 1761 by an engineer called James Brindley who was commissioned by Duke Bridgewater. The big advantages to using canals were that manufacturers could ship more products and heavy goods (such as coal iron and
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The stock market crash of 1929 negatively affected millions of Americans by decreasing the economy‚ turning millions of money into nothing‚ hurting our agriculture‚ and doubling the unemployment rate. It was an austere time for Americans as they tried to find jobs to sustain their families‚ and it lasted for about a decade. The stock market crash became known to everyone as the Great Depression‚ which started in October of 1929. The stock market prices were gradually dropping‚ and economic uncertainty
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Main reason for Britain to colonize America was for resources. It provided crops and raw materials which meant that England did not have to import these items. The English wanted raw materials in America now‚ and before they bought them from European countries for a high price (in gold and money). By colonizing America Britain wanted to solve economic problems. It wanted to
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Effects of the Cold War on Canada The distrust between the Western World and Communists‚ as well as the conditions after WWII caused the Cold War to begin. From 1946 to 1991 a mass arms race rose and Canada was stuck in between the grudge of capitalism and communism. The Cold War affected Canada through Canadian citizens fear of being nuked‚ sexism against women and the unfair treatment towards communists & socialists. With Canada’s ally the United States partaking in the Cold War with the Soviet
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fittest to war and economic competition and the main one racism‚ which was encouraged by Social Darwinism. By the late 1800’s many Europeans and Americans claimed that the success of Western civilization was due to the supremacy of the white race. Racism did end up taking on until the Civil War and created huge disputes in history. Additionally economy created a huge change in industrialization‚ the cause of economy to change is because of all the new inventions of technology and factories and workers with
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It was the longest period of tragedy that ever hit the United States from 1929 to 1941. This led to a devastated US economy‚ thus termed as “.the most severe and long-standing recession in world history” (Segal‚ 2024). There are even those that died from hunger or couldn’t make ends meet from the inability to secure a job as “In some cities unemployment reaches 75 percent”( Winkler‚ 2009). 100 percent the Great Depression became the worst global economic downturn that would last years for Americans
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The United States have considered Fidel Castro as the cause of multitudes of global calamities that have negatively impacted the stability and safety of America. Castro’s influence has undoubtedly been destructive‚ ranging from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the various violations of Human Rights that have been criticized by multiple Human Rights groups. Castro brought the reality of communism to the doorstep of America‚ changing the image of a distant evil to an enemy much closer to home in the minds
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The experiments that Tesla did at Colorado prepared him for Wardenclyffe‚ which is a trans-Atlantic wireless telecommunications facility near Shoreham‚ Long Island. Tesla began to plan the Wardenclyffe Tower facility with a budget of 150‚000 dollars‚ in 1900. Later‚ Tesla asked for
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The Great Depression was a long-wide spread global economic decline that affected millions of lives. Former president‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)‚ made it his mission to do everything he could to mend what the Great Depression damaged. FDR created the New Deal in hopes that it would have a great effect on America‚ the New Deal was a series of programs that were government regulated in order to boost the economy. I believe that the New Deal was a positive thing to come out of the depression. There
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On November 1‚ 1955 a war began in the country of Vietnam that cost many unnecessary lives and changed many global powers “Digital History” The war of Vietnam was almost unsolvable either situation was wrong. The war changed not only the country of Vietnam but all of the global powers. Under French rule the Vietnamese were receiving no benefits and barely enough to live on‚ it only took a small revolt to change that. Vietnam had many natural resources such as spices‚ metals‚ sugar‚ rubber‚ coal
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