Question 1 1 / 1 point The most important factor behind the phenomenal American economic growth that occurred between 1840 and 1860 was manufacturing advancements. an increase in agricultural productivity an increase in agricultural productivity. an adequate supply of laborers. a constant influx of immigrants. Question 2 1 / 1 point In contrast to the Germans‚ Irish immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s often worked as skilled artisans in the northeastern U.S. cities
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Transport is usually the movement of goods and people from one destination to another and transport economics is the study of the allocation of the resources used to move freight and passengers from destination to destination. The passengers and freight are moved all the way through a transport mode because a transport mode defined as the means of moving passengers and also freight. The largest parts of transport modes are rail‚ road‚ air‚ sea‚ and pipelines. Transport system normally helps in defeating
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The Electric Chair was a form of cruel and unusual punishment. It was once the most used method of execution in the United States. In the early twentieth century is when the electric chair started to be used. It replaced hanging‚ firing squad‚ and beheading in that period of time (Juan). Some states are still using the Electric Chair‚ but we do not hear much about it. Dr. Albert Southwick‚ a dentists‚ was the one who invented the Electric Chair in 1881. Edwin R. Davis was commissioned to design
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significant about chosen events‚ individuals‚ and advancements from the past. Historians utilize distinctive arrangements of criteria to help them make judgements about essentialness. All theories have to base on data. To make the country become better‚ people needs the data from the past to guide their country to the bright future. The old said: “the one who controls the past controls the future.” That is why history does matter to us. The United States has been through so many wars including domestic war
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of Nazi scientists utilizing this new found energy to build a nuclear bomb. As to avoid this‚ the United States implemented their own project. With the input of multiple scientists‚ and the ultimate approval of President Roosevelt‚ the first atomic bomb began to be designed and built by the United States. During World War II‚ The United States had discovered that German physicists had figured out how to separate a Uranium atom. The US feared that Nazi scientists would utilize this new energy they
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The interwar period (1919-1939) is crucial in the history of India as it is an important part of the jigsaw puzzle in understanding the contemporary political structure and the formation in Modern India and Pakistan. This period as a whole is very sensitive as huge changes and restructuring were taking place all over the world after the drastic world war. Since the world I war was mostly fought between colonies and as the World War I came to end‚ many or simply most of the colonies which due to
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in your opinion the most important factor that led the United States to abandon its policy of isolationism and adopt internationalism after Second World War? When the second world war ended‚ US got stuck in such a network of alliances and signing of international organizations that her retirement to her continent and adopting the policy of isolationism become quite impossible for her. But the most outstanding reason‚ that drew out her out from her isolation was‚ the rise of her potential rival‚ USSR
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The United States has been seen as one of the strongest forces on Earth for quite some time now. They have become one of the top world powers‚ alongside Russia‚ China‚ India‚ the UK‚ and many others. The United States became a world power in the 19th and 20th centuries due to the fact that they seized a great amount of land‚ grew their navy‚ constructed more bases‚ and created many policies with other nations out of wars. The inspiration for the United States to become a world power started with
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From the period of 1875-1900 organized labor enhanced the position of workers to a certain extent. Organized labor is defined as bunch of workers united as a single who would then bargain with employers to improve economic status and working conditions and through the use of organized labor political standings of workers. Organized labor had a good affect on workers since the hours at work was gradually decreasing due to labor unions while the wages were increasing. Labor groups such as the Knights
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Wieberg. HIS-350-O. Before 1960‚ what struggles did the Vietnamese have in gaining independence? Why did the United States begin to have interests in Vietnam from 1945 to 1963? “President Franklin D. Roosevelt seems instinctively to have recognized that colonialism was doomed and that the United States should identify with the forces of nationalism in Asia” (Herring‚ 9). These words seem so ironic would compared the course of actions that United States politicians would take concerning Vietnam. Americans
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