Gainesville State College - Fathom Yearbook (Gainesvbille, GA)

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ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OFFER FOB BALE ONE MILLION ACRES OF SUPERIOR FARMING LANES, IN FARMS OK 40, 80 160 acres and upwards at from $8 to $12 per acre. NOT M(tl ' lSKi:» BY ANY IN THE WORLD. THE WHOLE LINE OF THE CENTRAL ILLINOIS RAILROAD. Tor 8«lo oo LONQ CHEDIT, SHOUT CBEDIT anJ lot CASH. Ilnv aro situated noar TOWNB. VILLAGES. BCUOOt.S ■ [ CHUUC ' UES. niel Boone leads pioneeis through Ihe Cumberland Gao in Ihis intmg by George Bingham

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Transportation was setting the pattern for the American way of life. The country became a mobile society with electric trolleys, automo- biles, farm machinery, and bicycles, all the rage. Along with the accessibility of travel came a new era of nationalism. A World War called upon the nation ' s young men to unite and fight. After the war in Europe, the nation pulled itself together and industry flourished once again. A carefree America bur- ied war memories in the new moving pictures, telephones, light bulbs, electric generators, stock market ticker tape machines, phono- graphs and a wealth of inventions from the fer- tile minds of its young inventors. Baseball be- came the national sport and prohibition was Black Thursday, October 24. 1929, saw the American stock market crash to the lowest level in history Panic set in as the unemployment level skyrocketed The country was in its worst 11 onomit t risis. Slowly, but surely, the wounds cit ill. i rash, the dust bowl, and poverty healed. « Jtr RATION| « . ■Er- STAMP NO. SiMF 34 , JURATION! ■Ct- stamp no. WHP 35 1 « Jtr (?ATION| «■ MC STAMP NO. Ve W3F 38 X JtT RATI ONI ■Ct- stamp no. 1 m 39 1 r.f?ATION| « . ■EeL STAMP NO.I AW 42 1 vJtr.RATION| ■g STAMP NO.I (PHP 43 I « JURATION! ■ , K- STAMP NO. WftW 46 1 5! , jT.RATION| ■C- STAMP NO. PHP 1 47 The steel industry geared up for the revival while rumors were whispered in the Roosevelt administration of another impending war. The nations leaders scoffed, until December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor! Industrial production reached a peak during the war years. Upon their return from four years of battle, the veterans forged ahead with an eye on a better life for everyone. Several mod- erate recessions in the 50s and 60s reminded cautious citizens of past decades. Progress in Electronics ; field. Television became a part of every family s life. National events were household topics — while they happened — thanks to the new medi- um. Individuals and groups were seen on the tube as they advocated new social reform, or justice, or special causes of their own. TV gave individuals and political systems power greater than ever before. Audio-visual journalism had made its impact. Nearly 100 years of struggling for civil liberties were realized when President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. The Act outlawed segregation in any form. The seventies shed light on a new trouble for the nation as it approached its 200th birthday The world ' s energy sources and natural re- sources were being used up faster than they could be replenished. Americans once again waded into a new frontier. The energy ( risis and ecology were prominent words in the language. Ways to save nature from the neglect of mankind and ways of preserving precious fuel without damaging that balance of nature were the objectives of Americans across the country Earth ' s crises spurred Americans into further pioneering. This time outer space. Ameri- can astronauts were the first on the surface of the moon and the US was first to build a si . lab for more scientific study. American is still learning and growing after a mere 200-year infancy. The original determina- tion of our forefathers was told again in the words of Neil Armstrong as he made the tirst step on the moon a small step for man. but a giant step for mankind .

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Gold Discovered in Cotoma. California (Jan. 12, 1847 The Alamo. San Antonio Texas (Texas Independence day March 2, 1836) THE CHANGING NATION HAWAII (50th state) y ALASKA (49th state) Admitted to the Union in 1959 Admitted to Ihe Union in 1959 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.