The late 19th Century was a revolutionizing period in American History evident by the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War. However, it was the completion of the Transcont...
Blake Higgins 4/29/00
Vail Mountain School Grade 8
The Transcontinental Railroad
Although many changes occurred in the mid 1800's in America, such as the...
The West Needs the Government
In the 1860s Americans began to inhabit the land west of the Mississippi river on the promise of free land and the hope to improve their economi...
US History 2
Was the West Really Won?
If anyone today asked how the west was won, depending on who you asked you might hear reference to the 1962 classic movie starring J...
In the beginning moving West was the majority of the barriers and obstructions that the setters had to face. Indian attacks, blizzards, tornadoes, flash floods and just bei...
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Americans, were they the real savages? Through all American has gone though to get to where we are today, talk about how were "America the great" our...
The Influence of Chinese and Irish Laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad
The Chinese and Irish laborers answered strongly when asked to help build the Transcontinental...
In the late nineteenth century the expansion to the west increased the American culture. Since population was growing they needed to satisfy demands equally for every person....
farmers and railroad
Railroad helped transport crops to other parts of the country more efficiently.
cattle drives
3,000 cattle
18 men
chuck wagon and cook...
The Influence of Chinese and Irish Laborers on the Transcontinental Railroad
The Chinese and Irish laborers answered strongly when asked to help build the Transcontinental...
Prevention of Immigration
The Declaration of Independence, an important political and legal document states that. “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by...
The years after the civil war left one half of America, the north, satisfied and the other half, the south, mostly dissatisfied. Therefore the last third of the nineteen...
Before the 19th century, American people relied on solely trade and farming in order to survive. After the American Revolution and the American Civil War, people noticed the i...
American Popular Culture as an Instrument of Racial Oppression
The cultural images produced by the media serve to further oppress racialized groups in America and form natio...
Most of the gold extracted from California has since been returned to the earth, sealed in the well-guarded vaults at Fort Knox. At the time, the discovery of Gold in Californ...
Attention statement: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddles masses yearning to be free" these are the words that have greeted hundreds of thousands of immigrants coming...
Immigration: A Melting Pot of Dysfunction
Throughout its storied history, the “American Dream” has captivated outsiders from all around the world. America owes much o...
[edit] Pre-Columbian period
Main article: Pre-Columbian
The earliest known inhabitants of what is now the United States are thought to have arrived in Alaska by crossing the...
The term American Dream has had many shades of meaning throughout American history. Today, it generally refers to the idea that one's prosperity depends upon one's own abiliti...