Roger Bacon High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Transportation was' setting the pattern For the American way of life. The coimtry became a mobile society with electric trolleys, automo-. bileS, Farm machinery, and bicycies. all the rage, Along with the accessibility of travel came a 'n'ew'cra of nationalism. A World War called upon the nation' 5 young men to unite and fight. After the war in Eumpe 'ihe nation pulled itself together and indusl'r'y flourished once again. A carefree America bur- ied war memories in' the new moving picm'res, telephones, light bulbs, eieclric generators, stock market ticker tape machines, phono- graphs and a wealth oh in'vcntions ffom the Fete Itile minds of its young invenibrs. Baseball be- came the national sport and prohibition was law. 7' 3 ?!1: if '1 it! I , Black Thursday, October 24. 1929. saw Ihe American slack market crash to the lowest level 111 history. Panic set in as the unemployment Ievei skyrocketed. The country was in its warm economic crisis. Slowly. but.5urely. the 1wundIsI of'ihe crash. the dust bowl. and poverty 'he'aled. RAT I OH RATION 1 '. STAMPINO, ' . m - 1' l RATION ' ' H 51111119110. - 57111413110.- $38 ;1 .- . 9, i RATION :' RATION .srmp no. 1 STAMP no. 42 g - 1- ;h RAT! ON RATIO STAMP NO: STAMPJIG. 46 - 47 The steel industry geared' up far the revival while rumors w'ei'e Whispered in the Roosevelt administtation of another impending war The nation 2;. leaders 51:11Ffed;until December 7 1941 Pearl Harbor! Industrial p'tpdqctionteached'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 'SeverIal mod? eIrIaie iecessionsI in the 5015.;1ndI605 retriinded ca'utio'u's cI-itizens oFIpast decades. Huge strides were being takgn in the scigntific Field Television became a part1 10? NEW family 5 ' life. National events were household topics - 1 while they happened- thanks 10 the new medi- um1 Individuals and gmups WereIinzen Hon the tube as they 'advocmed new sot'ial' refmm. or iustice, or special caIuses of their own. TV gave individuals andpoliticai systems power greater than ever before. Audio-visual journalism haId made its impact. Thi Seventies shed 113,111 ' - the nation as it appro'acikd 5 ngI'm ' I I I .. . Thp1WCI'1I1'ci'5 Energy Isbutges i111 . source's we're being used up Easter. th'a Eh 1 cpuld Ibe repiemshed AmericIaItts ' waded into a new Ifrontier. The Ienefgy C115 and 'ecology were- 'proItriin of mankind ahd Iways oIE p'reIsI Fuel 'without damaging that balance a Earlh' s crises spurred Americans into fixtthfr; pioneering. .This time . .. dulcr space, Ameri- can astronauts were the first on lite surface of .' the moon and the U S was first to Build a sky- iab for more scientific study, mere ZOD-year infamy. The original determina- tion of 0111' FoIreEathers wag: ton-agai the '-Iwer'1I2 the- oIb'jective'sI uF1 Americana 11610551.- 111ml country , .. . 11 J'. American is still learning and growing after a -:- worIds of Neil Armatrong as he made the mm '1 Johnson signed 1heICIivil Rights Act 13F 19 31 ' - W into law The Act outlawed1 segregatiori irI1 any i 1' ' language. Ways to 5599 nature finm 1h 'negiect l I I' step on the moon , -.I-. a giant step for Tmankind a Ismail step for man 'but ':

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Louisiana PurchasatAunl 30. NW u I mm lem unlm..uumul ty1 ! 5 III 15! Tvanswnhnenlat Railroad MEGS: unuu'l..- 'munh uull flu... nu. Euld Discovered in Colnma.CalltnrnIa tJan lit i8473 The Alamui San Aulumo Texas 09x35 tndenendenne day Matuh 2, 18363 Original 13 Colonies THE CHANGING NATION Admitted to the Union in t959 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 highepriced and scarce, and develop- ment of good transportation to really start the frontier movement. The Gold Rush caused hordes of settlers to take various Iodtes 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 HMMII t5mh slam ALASKA Msth mm Admitted to the Union In 1959 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 nae 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 moveci together toward a new life. Americanism was advanced socially, by the hard-working, bare-fisted types who settled the frontiers.