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    Jack Giggey A revolution in the form of transportation transformed America forever. Between the 1800s and 1840’s hundreds of roads and canal were built‚ most famous were the National Road and the Erie Canal. This transportation revolution also helped ignite the market revolution. With easier transportation‚ came explosive economic growth and opportunities in production and manufacturing. Out in the frontier‚ better known as the west‚ the economy started to play an important role in the United

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    very far off. Nothing could be agreed upon‚ and everything seemed to cause conflict. What didn’t help with national unity was  the many significant events that took place in the early 1800s that caused Americans to divide themselves.     One of these events that caused turmoil in the nation was the election of 1800. This election was the first time in our country’s history that the political power passed from one party to another. John Adams‚ a Federalist‚ lost the election and passed the office

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    Find its radius. 3. Calculate the mass of an atom of (a) helium‚ (b) iron‚ and (c) lead. Give your answers in grams. The atomic masses of these atoms are 4.00 u‚ 55.9 u‚ and 207 u‚ respectively. 4. The position of a particle moving under uniform acceleration is some function of time and the acceleration. Suppose we write this position s = kamtn‚ where k is a dimensionless constant. Show by dimensional analysis that this expression is satisfied if m = 1 and n = 2. Can this analysis give the value

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    Oscar Wilde observed in the late 1800s that progress is made when people are disobedient and rebel against authorities. Think about problems that needed to be challenged‚ things where the rules were too strict to follow and still make the change wanted by many. Some occurrences are when Americans left the control of the British‚ abolishing slavery‚ and historical people like Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement. A world without this history of taking a stand against authorities would be way

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    they needed by hand or by basic machines. This meant that production took a much greater time for construction and that the individuals that made certain products had to be specifically trained to master that skill. This would all change by the mid 1800s with the start of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain.  “Industrialization refers to a process that transformed agrarian and handicraft-centered economies into economies distinguished by industry and machine manufacture.” (Bentley 492) The

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    In the late 1700’s and 1800s the systematic importation of African slaves from their native continent across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World‚ also known as the Atlantic slave trade‚ took place. With the demand for rice‚ sugar‚ and tobacco growing higher‚ the demand for labor grew with it. There different forms of slavery and different treatment of slaves around the world. The biggest contrast in slavery was the slavery in North America and South America. The first Europeans to capture and sell

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    The novel Pride & Prejudice can be used as a comparison between how society and class plays a role in the lives of individuals currently and during the 1800s. The protagonist‚ Elizabeth Bennett‚ is a charming young lady that is favored by her father due to her natural acumen and ability to defy society. Although she is often described as obstinate‚ unwilling to change her mind upon another request. With this being sound‚ it became evident to the audience that her insecurities of wealth made her

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    During the late 1800s Britain was involved in imperialism. This is a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force. Britain has impacted the world through imperialism by its politics‚ economics‚ society‚ and the environment. Between the goods map and the graph was I see is the British have a higher profit than the Indians. The map has the British being small have not much to trade or give to other countries besides resources used for defensive machinery

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    What combination of factors resulted in rapid US industrial growth in the late 1800s?               In the late 1800s the US overtook Great Britain as the world’s largest source of manufactured goods               Abundant natural resources o             The US was its own source of the raw materials necessary for industrialization o             Coal‚ iron ore‚ copper‚ lead‚ timber‚ and oil               Abundant labor supply o             High immigration between 1865 & 1900 o            

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    In 1860‚ the United States was primarily a land that contained small towns and farms. At the time‚ Americans had discovered that living on farms were more beneficial than factories‚ since the amount of land was immense‚ affordable‚ and labor was high-priced due to its insufficiency. However‚ in a matter of forty years‚ the nation had made an evolution and became the greatest industrial country in the world. Ever since the rapid increase production of raw materials‚ farm laborers had departed to work

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