Wildwood Catholic High School - Annscript Yearbook (North Wildwood, NJ)

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Louisiana Purchase (April 30,1803) ‘ %,»»' 1st Transcontinental Railroad(1869) Ori£inal 13 Colonies Gold Discovered in Coloma. California (Jan. 12.1847) The Alamo, San Antonio Texas (Texas Independence day March 2.1836) 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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Early prospector panning tor gold ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMP OFFER FOR 8ALB ONE MILLION ACRES OF SUPERIOR FABMINO LANDS, IN FARMS OF 40,80 160 acres and upwards at from $8 to $12 per acre. 'I'KKHK LANJI8 AHK NOT ST «PASSED BV ANY IN THE WORLD. TirBY 7.IK A7..0X0 THE WHOLE LINE OF THE CENTRAL ILLINOIS RAILROAD. Vve S»la oa LONO CIUBDIT. SHORT CREDIT and for CASH, th r »« actuated nfnr TOWNS. VIZ.LACIES. SCHOOLS »xl CHURCHES. A Oamet Boone leads pioneers through the Cumberland Gap in this | pamt.ng by George Bingham

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liberty ®3or death DONT TREAD ON ME BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FLAG ALSO CALLED -SERAPIS ' FLAG. GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS ORIGINATED BY BENIAMIN FRANKLIN AT COURT OF LOUIS XVI CULPEPER FLAG - 1775 ONE OF THE EARLY RATTLESNAKE FUGS CARRIED BY 1HE MINUTE MEN r.ct a FIRST STARS AND 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 DAGGETT IN 1831 FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 THE STARS ANO STRIPES WITH THIRTY SIX STARS IN THE UNION CARRIED BY THE NORTHERN ARMIES DURING UTER YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR. Banners