Gainesville State College - Fathom Yearbook (Gainesvbille, GA)

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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.

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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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