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1'1: 11111111 to tax.11te1ms that were whoI1y Am'eri'can. 11111110101113; madepl in seeth1ng resentment . 1 jwhltih eiu-ptetl into arigr'y' pretestations The 1'b1ood..of the 1Amexican Revolut1on was . p ed 11111111119 0111! 'such incident at 13051011 in 111111 17705611211111 Americans 1ost their lives over a '1 1 Showball thrown at a British sentry. 1 12111 the fight! to achieve'gommerce eqnhty, the EnitedS'tates .fpundjtselbina nayal Walovqr 1 shipping lane's; Fort McHent-y was herioc'ally 11 11:1 fighting. The next: 11101-111th Fran'cis Scott 11Key penned the 1111111011.:1 words 01 what would 1bec0me the 11311011111 anthem. new lands, so cana11s' and. br1dgee-wete-bu11t-to-- 11:1ng stages a'rid wagon traihs. loa'ded with ma: ery destined for settlements' m 1the West. The pioneers foresaw great: wealth in the cheap acreage that was availaHe; 1 held'duting 311 British naya1'qubjar1c-iment, anel. the stars and stripes still flewfaEter 'a.night1df i ; Settlers had to. have permanent access to the -' CHAPTERS 01: AMERICAN HISTORY Frontie'rsmen cleared the wilderhe55, built seta tlements and drpve b'ack the Indians. The Pony Express and the telegraph became primary means of communication: Agribuhute was the Weelth of the country, Amiegican '1nventions'nf the time were often re- Iated to working the soil. The McCormick Reaper, mowing machines, textile looms and the tofton' 5111 were instrumental inthe settling of new frantiers. Whilc' '.go1c1 rush Fever gripped the mummy. states we're increasingly more di1'rided on the sIavery issue. Civil war broke out in the East. This Brothers War was bitter1y Fought and lhough the scars remain even today, slavery was abolished. Cities grew at an a1armin1g pace; often without regard to the limits df safety. The great Chicago Fife of 1871 burned. the bustling cattle market empire beyond 'recognition. But the pioneer spirit Washot broken..ChiCagoans began rev building and preparations 'Were underway to celebrate the 100th bitthday of the country. 111 1648. Iames Marsha1l found gold in the race of q sawmill he was building for John Sutter Vat Coloma. California. The'1ust to -get rich quick was the fqrce behind this biggest and gaudiest goid rush'ever. The Iron Horse, carrying homesteaders, greatly helped settlement of the new country. The Firs : ttan'scontinental 'railroad Connected the country at Promontory Summit, Utah,1or1 May 10, 18-69.
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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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