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How did railroads change America?

With the ability to ship things from one side of the country to the other in a matter of days or weeks instead of months, the American economy grew. Around the time that the railroad was completed in the late 1800s, the technology in America was growing as well. Before the turn of the century, railroads had refrigerated cars that made it possible to ship items that normally would have spoiled before.

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Who are some famous Spanish people who died?

Famous Spanish people long dead include Hernan Cortes, the famous explorer who led the expedition that brought about the fall of the Aztec Empire. Miguel de Cervantes is probably the most famous Spanish writer and one of the most important literary figures in history for his work, "Don Quixote."\nNotably, Christopher Columbus is often mistaken for a Spaniard because he worked for the Spanish. However, he was from Genoa.

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What forces led to the fall of the Mongols?

In the 12th century, Genghis Khan achieved supremacy within the All Mongol League and was proclaimed khan. Early in the 13th century, his military campaigns created a vast empire from northern China to European Russia. The key to the Mongol attacks was skilled archers on horseback, but they also learned how to besiege cities that opposed them. Subsequent khans chosen from among Genghis Khan's sons and relatives continued to expand the empire. It reached its zenith under one of Genghis Khan's grandsons, Kublai Khan, who defeated the Song dynasty in China and even attempted unsuccessfu..

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What date did the Trail of Tears begin?

Over 7,000 troops oversaw the expulsion of the Cherokee from Georgia. During the journey, approximately 4,000 Cherokee died due to hunger, disease and physical exhaustion. This final migration west was the conclusion of Indian removal policies begun by President Andrew Jackson. The federal government assured the Cherokee their new home would never be taken away; however by 1907, all their territory was gone when Oklahoma became a state.

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Who were some of the first people from England to immigrate to Canada?

The largest influx of early Canadian immigration came after the end of the American Revolution. After the American victory, many British loyalists who had immigrated to America from England were forced to move northward for fear of repercussions from the newly established American government. Even though they were political refugees, Canada had developed enough that many loyalists were given supplies and land to start off their new life in Canada.\nImmigration then slowed down again until the mid-19th century, when the Irish potato famine forced many Irish families to seek a new life in Canada..

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What were the Barbados Slave Codes?

A few decades after the British first settled in Barbados in 1627, sugar became the export that powered the economy. At first, thousands of indentured Irish prisoners worked the plantations. Later, the planters turned to slaves brought over from West Africa as a cheaper source of labor. From 1627 to 1807, almost 400,000 Africans crossed the sea to work the plantations, as the high mortality rate made a constant flow of new slaves necessary.\nThe Barbados Slave Codes allowed the planters to control the slaves by any means they felt necessary without repercussion. Though the codes were meant to ..

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Why did delegates meet at Mount Vernon and Annapolis?

George Washington arranged the Mount Vernon Conference, and he hosted commissioners from Maryland and Virginia at his home on the Potomac River. The delegates discussed matters that were absent from the Articles of Confederation, which, at the time, was the constitution for the 13 founding states.\nDuring the Mount Vernon Conference, Maryland and Virginia agreed to consider their waterways as a common highway that vessels from each state would be forever free to use. The resulting Compact of 1785 was the first such binding contract between two states.\nThe Mount Vernon Conference was such a su..

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What was Dollar Diplomacy?

President Taft and his Secretary of State Philander C. Knox came up with the idea of dollar diplomacy as a way of stabilizing potentially violent areas of the world and increasing American influence abroad, particularly in Latin America and East Asia. Instead of committing the U.S. military to endless campaigns to prop up ailing governments, he wanted to help governments improve their economies and thereby become more legitimate, reducing the possibility of revolution. Also, he wanted to improve the influence of the United States and to limit that of the other great powers. Dollar diplomacy he..

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What is the history of the ship the Santa Maria?

In spring 2014, American underwater explorer Barry Clifford claimed to have found the wreck of the Santa Maria. He had used Columbus' diaries to find what he thought was its exact location, but unfortunately a team of experts from UNESCO soon proved that the ship he had found was actually from a later period.\nManuel Rosa, an expert in American history, has claimed that the ship never sank anyway. Columbus only claimed it sank because he was spying for the Portuguese King. His subsequent advice to the Spanish court culminated in the signing of the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which gave Po..

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How many King Georges of England were there?

According to About.com, King George I ruled from 1714 until 1727, while King George II ruled from 1727 until 1760. King George III ruled from 1760 through 1820, King George IV held the throne from 1820 until 1830, and King George V ruled from 1910 until 1936.\nKing George VI married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923, and they had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. As king, he is noted for helping get Britain through World War II. He died at 56 after a lung operation on Feb. 6, 1952, at Sandringham.

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