… America. Most graphs compare the population, factories, factory workers, railway mileage, grain products, and bank deposits. While all of this portrayed the industry in both the north and the south, which was a huge factor in the war, it didn't…

… the Chicago River? Fact is, all of them did, but none of them directly took care of the river. That was left to the companies and industries. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, Fort Dearborn was built at the mouth of the Chicago River.…

… British Columbia they worked in Fraser valley and then they went into farming, gardening, domestic service, road construction, and railway builders.         When the United States got rid of slavery they found a new way to have cheap labour the…

… a crisis for plains farmers when a drought damaged their crops. Meanwhile, farmers in the South began to face new competition from cotton grown in India and Egypt. In addition, the sharecropping model of farming that grew up in the South led to overprodu…

… farm near Philadelphia. He was raised by mother who had lost her husband. When he was fourteen years old, he entered the College of New Jersey which was created in the aftermath of the Great Awakening. He became a physician according to his great influen…

… been able to adapt to its needs. The founding fathers saw that the Articles of Confederation were not working and thus, met in Philadelphia in 1787 in order to invent a staple set of laws, which would unify the nation under a stronger central government.…

… living in. America was still carving out its way among the various nations of the world. Many people say that it is the man who makes the times. This was quite the case with Andrew Jackson. During the Jacksonian era, Nationalism, expansionism and securin…

… 1890-1910 the Gilded Age brought lavish dreams of vast wealth and great luck. What they found was that the crop failures, persecution, shortages of land and rising taxes that they were escaping was little worse than the racism, ill-treatment, and…

… from 1890-1920. It created many responses to the increase of economic and social problems that industrialization introduced to American cities. What began as a social movement quickly turned into a political one. Many different groups of people were…

… Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -cies Etymology: Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dEmokratia, from dEmos + -kratia -cracy Date: 1576 1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority…