As major settlement began in the new world, major trail building began in order to establish trade between the colonies. ... The Erie Canal started in Albany on the Hudson River and traveled up the state of New York to Buffalo to Lake Erie. ...
("Railroad" 85) The first American railroads started in the 1830's from the Atlantic ports of Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Charleston, and Savannah (Douglas 23). ... An international route connected New England and Montreal and another one crossed Southern Ontario between Niagara, New York, and the Detroit River. ... First, the Union Pacific sent out location parties, tracing the line and clearing the path by killing the Sioux and the buffalo in the way of the railroad. ... The telegraph operator was connected with San Francisco and New York and was rea...
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27,1858 in New York. ... Theodore did that, during the change of a new century. ... They were known as the "Buffalo Soldiers". ... To test out his new navy, he won the revolution in the Colombian province of Panama. ... The chief engineer of the New Panama Canal Company organized a local revolt. ...
As the whites moved through the Indian territories they scared off the buffalo which was the Indians major source of food, clothing, hunting supplies, and fuel. ... Industrialization In the 1880's new immigrants started coming to the U.S. These new immigrants were darker skinned then the old immigrants, were illiterate and were unfamiliar with constitutional governments. ... Samuel Gompers - Emigrated to New York with his family in 1863 he worked as a cigar maker and a union organizer. ...
He founded a communal society of about a thousand people at New Harmony, Indiana, in 1825. ... The Knickerbocker Group in New York was among the first companies to produce American literature. ... Trade in buffalo robes also flourished. ... Most of the time, the new immigrants were treated horribly by the Americans. ... Many farmers in New England had to move west due to the cheaper prices of food coming in. ...
This helped to establish the first collegiate team in 1877 by New York University. Soon after, Philips Academy, Andover (Massachusetts), Philips Exeter Academy (New Hampshire) and the Lawrenceville School (New Jersey) were the nation's first high school teams in 1882. ... Soon they decided to play the game without roller skates, and the Eagle Box Lacrosse League started competition with teams in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New Jersey. ... Although the league had a shaky beginning, it soon changed its name into the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL) and grew into other...
Roberta Hanesworth, a family counselor in Buffalo, New York, stated, "The cost of living is not that higher, it's that people want to live higher." ... American women are striving to take control, and creating an entirely new view of the traditional American family. ... I think that women are creating an entire new workforce in corporate America. ...
This movement entered a new stage in 1840, when some of its leaders entered politics and founded the Liberty Party. ... John Brown - He lived and worked successively in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York. ... Women in the Abolition movement Women played a strong role in the abolitionist movement, often breaking new ground for women as well as for blacks. ... In fact, the idea for the first convention for women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, grew out of women abolitionists' dissatisfaction with the limitations placed on their role. ... Henry Highland Garnet...
Russell, The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986)],5, i [though] fewer than 10 percent of child sexual abuse cases are reported to authorities.6 [A 2001 University of Pennsylvania] study estimated that in the United States, 325,000 children a year were subjected to sexual exploitation, including prostitution, use in pornography and molestation.7 "According to Unicef, a million children are forced each year into pornographic productions that generate $20 billion in sales,"" [Swiss Justice Minister Ruth Metzler] said.8 In 90% of the rapes o...
The Southwest peoples including the Hohokam, Mogollan, and Anasazi, originated out of New Mexico and Southern Arizona used Mesoamerican crops and farming techniques. ... The buffalo on the top of the image represents that animals had a later importance to the Southwest peoples since it is the second largest feature on the image. ... Despite the existence of large slave estates in New York and Rhode Island, more Northern slaves were held in very small groups - usually no more than three to four slaves per owner - and worked as farmhands, servants, craftsmen, and general laborers" (Kolchin,...