During the period between 1865 to 1898, the turn of the century was approaching the nation. The end of the Civil War marked this transition from a more agricultural nation to an industrialized one. Society in America was becoming significantly more urbanized and more diversity was introduced to larg...
Governor of Indiana William Henry Harrison threatened, bribed and purposely intoxicated Indians to get them to move out of the land. ... This occurred as a result of the discovery of gold in territories in the West. ... The gold rushes in the Western territories devastated the Indian's land and farms, despoiled sacred sites, and led to the extermination of whole tribes, (Villarde). ...
Initially attracted to California by the discovery of gold in the mid-nineteenth century, by the l860s thousands of Chinese laborers were enticed here to construct the mountainous western section of the transcontinental railroad. ... For example, in "Criticism and Fiction" (1891), William Dean Howells, a advocate of nineteenth-century American realism, warns readers to avoid sentimental or sensational novels, which he claims "hurt" by presenting "idle lies about human nature and the social fabric." ...
A column by William Saletan (2006) in a newspaper expressed that the spirit of sport in highlighted through hard work and dedication towards the sport and that placing your own health on the line by using PED is showing immense perseverance to the sport. ...
One early English explorer to visit Africa was William Hawkins who in the 1530's made voyages to Guinea to obtain ivory and gold, commodities the area was rich in, at this stage in history it did not appear that Britain had a great interest in the trade of human slaves. ...
Despite calling for a twenty-five percent reduction in federal spending, a balanced federal budget, a stable gold currency, and the removal of government from areas where private enterprise would be best suited President Franklin Roosevelt accomplished neither. ...
