Danube High School - Falcon Yearbook (Danube, MN)

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(Teus independence d y Mjrch 7.1836) G©»d UiKOVfffd m Co'orru California(J n 1? 1847) T‘.fA;jmo Sj ArMr.mo Ifij- foal 13 Colonies THE CHANGING NATION Ownership of land had been just a dream to most of the colonists from feudal England. With the great expanse of cheap land opening up in the West, the dream became reality. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 opened the first sizable frontier in the Midwest, but the nation was not ready for it yet. It took a growing market in the East, where land was getting high-priced and scarce, and develop- ment of good transportation, to really start the frontier movement. The Gold Rush caused hordes of settlers to take various routes to the Pacific Coast and its yellow riches. The railroads brought farmers and ranchers, along with the miners, who decided to stop all along the routes and build their homes. Railroads were instrumental in the quick civilization of the West, bringing people in num- bers so large that the resentful Indians were finally pushed back into unwanted and infertile areas. America became a haven for immigrants from every na- tion as freedom beckoned them to the teeming cities of the East, the plains, and the rich west coast farmlands. Sick of the Civil War and with their own lands divided up and lost, many Southerners set out to 'begin again in the virgin territories. Westering soon became the national tradition as North and South moved together toward a new life. Americanism was advanced socially, by the hard-working, bare-fisted types who settled the frontiers.

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FLAG ALSO CALLEO 'SERAPIS FLAG GENERALLY ACCEPTEO AS ORIGINATED BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AT COURT OF LOUIS XVI LIBERTY aflOR DEATH DONT TREAD ON ME CULPEPER FLAG - 1775 ONE OF THE EARLY RATTLESNAKE FLAGS CARRIED BY THE MINUTE MEN « FIRST STARS ANO STRIPES UNITEO EMBLEM OF INDEPENDENCE SAID TO HAVE BEEN ORIGINATED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON FOLLOWING ACT OF CONGRESS OF JUNE 14. 1777 OLD GLORY NAME GIVEN BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM DRIVER. COMMANDING THE BRIG ' CHARLES OAGGETT IN 1831 FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR 18(1 1865 THE STARS AND STRIPES' WITH THIRTY SIX STARS IN THE UNION CARRIEO BY THE NORTHERN ARMIES DURING LATER YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR Banners