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- 3051: Battle of Saratoga
- ... the world that the fledgling American army was an effective fighting force capable of defeating the highly trained British forces in a major confrontation. As a result of this successful battle, the European powers took interest in the cause of the Americans and began to support them. In the British Campaign of 1777, Major General Burgoyne planned a concentric advance of three columns to meet in Albany, New York. He led ...
- 3052: The New Immigration
- ... an industrial giant and the world's economic power. The new immigrants came at a turning point in American growth. Bosses rarely knew their workers. Class animosity often divided management and labor. Corporations showed little interest in their workers. Instead, these business sought to maximize profits. To lower wages, plant managers often tried to pit one racial, religious, or ethnic minority against another to keep the pot of hostility boiling. A ...
- 3053: Roosevelt
- ... as powerful as now in five centuries - and hopefully it will - F.D Roosevelt will most likely be one of the mist breakers from the second world war because of the American people's great interest in the presidents involved in wars and the governments talent for hiding less than flattering information from the world. Roosevelt's involvement in the great World War II allows him to fit , comfortably, the U ...
- 3054: Labor Unions
- ... been higher than that of nonunion workers, largely because union workers have tended to have more capital goods at their disposal than nonunion workers. These studies also indicate that unionized workers have had lower turnover rates. This has lowered the costs of recruitment and trainin! g to employers. These cost savi ngs have materially diminished the wage disadvantage experienced by the employers of unionized labor. Some participants in and observers of ...
- 3055: The Great Inflation
- ... the government. In terms of the consequences of the inflation, the signposts to the future were in place. It was clear that a relatively well-off middle and upper middle class had little of no interest in anything other that centrist democracy. The swing towards extremism in 1924 was an indicator of what was to come in 1930. This is demonstrated by the gains made by the Nazis and Communists in ...
- 3056: Events leading to the American Revolution
- ... of the parliament. Dickinson's comments were ubiquitous among the colonists, and thus infuriated them to rebellion, and the seizure of basic democratic rights. "From necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament as are bona fide restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial ...
- 3057: The Transcontinental Railroad and Westward Expansion
- ... immigrants. Literature was spread in every important European language, especially to areas in which there were droughts or bad soil. Western railroads had agents in New York City to receive immigrants; they offered special immigrant rates to the West, and they gave new arrivals advice on where to settle and about the best methods of farming. The railroad enterprise was one of the most important aspects of the history of the ...
- 3058: The Civil War
- ... not only because of the growing international status of the United States, but also because war threatened world access to the South's cotton. Britain and France were the two main countries that had particular interest in the wars outcome, but other nations were as well effected by it. The civil war was a conflict over way of life. The Southern states depended upon the agriculture of the slaves, including cotton ...
- 3059: The Early Nineteenth Centory
- ... many people were disappointed upon their return that they had not found an all water route, Lewis and Clark were the first to map most of this land we call America. They also aroused an interest in the people to move westward in the growing nation. Let's go back a little bit to when Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States. He needed money to fight in the ...
- 3060: Illuminating the Path of Progress
- ... attempts to put sound and vision together ended in failure. In 1899 he develops the fluoroscope, but chooses not to patent the invention because of its universal need in medicine and surgery. Edison's main interest during the 1890's was a project to develop a method of extracting iron from low grade ore. Edison spent $2 million trying to develop a method of extracting iron. He spent almost all of ...
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