Historical Landmarks Of The United States

In the book The Ghost Map, cholera was going into a massive outbreak in London during 1854. The story begins as one of the characters, baby Lewis, Contracts cholera, and when the mother washes diapers and cleans for the baby, she throws the water into the street. This leads to the outbreak. While the Board of Health believed the smell of the city was the cause of the outbreak, there was another citizen who believed otherwise. Henry Whitehead was a doctor who began to specialize in anesthesiology. Meanwhile, John Snow was researching his own theories, and he worked his way through the city to locate where high volumes of people were dying. While he was doing his research he began making a map, and he graphed where people were dying. Each house

It is hard to imagine in the twenty first century the level of filth that was experienced in the 1830’s on a daily basis. Sanitation, public health and sewer systems were problems that gripped the nation throughout the ninetieth century (1830-1860s), encouraging popular debate and proposal of changes. The growth of population and increase in the industry

The purpose of many monuments is to honor and protect the legacy of some of America's greatest heroes. Kirk Savage in the book Monument

From 1750 - 1851 Manchester, England wet under many changes. Streets were filled with excrement and disease. As much as 10 people lived in a single room. The walls of buildings were covered in smoke. The city size grew exponentially. The main changes included city growth, poor living conditions, and overall city ugliness that led to a variety of reactions.

Depending on the placement of the monument the importance of the events contues genrations on. For an example, inorder for placing something of sagnificant value, the holocaust, would be placed somehwere of sagnifcant value, like a nations capital, but just anywhere in the nations capital. Eventhough DC is the nations capital "placeing the holocaust museum in a mall in DC is disrespectful and offensive" to the people who died and the servivers(source E). Just because its the national capital doesnt mean a mall in the nations capital is appropreate, besides lives were lost, not material things being bought. The failure for the creator(s) to think of that stripped the meaning and the pain behind the holocuast away. The placement of that museum made fun of, or even mocked the holocuast as if it is important to be remebered by America but not important to petray horrifying details of it. If the placement of the museum was to be in central DC near the White House, it creates a more important rule in Americas everyday life, because its near where the prisident lives, its near where people go to live the American dream. It would reinforce the meaning of the tragidy, the menaing of being saought out just becuase of you religion, the meaning of being gased alive, the meaning of being torn away from your family, the meaning of starving in the cold winters, and lastly

Pennsylvania was popular among Indians (they were treated very fairly) and immigrants as Penn employed a very liberal land policy

Pennsylvania was one of the original 13 colonies, it became the second state administrated into the union on Dec 12 1787.Like other states Pennsylvania has a motto,Pennsylvania’s motto is “Virtue,Liberty, and Independance”.Pennsylvania’s total population is about 12,703,379 (but it’s ever changing) there is about 49,188 in Pennsylvania’s capital Harrisburg which is about 1/240 of the total poppulation. Pennsylvania’s state bird is the ruffed grouse, the state flower is the mountain laurel, and the state tree is the eastern hemlock. Pennsylvania Has many nicknames such as the keystone,oil,coal, and quaker state and state of independance. The origin of Pennsylvania’s name is from it’s founder Quaker Penn as Pennsylvania in dutch means “Penn’s Woods”.

Philadelphia is the Keystone State’s largest city. Pennsylvania, a northern U.S. State and one of the thirteen original colonies, has a diverse terrain, which includes wide stretches of farmland, national forests and mountains.Above all, Although born into a distinguished

In 1702 Philadelphia was established by Great Britain, however modern-day Pennsylvania was granted statehood 85 years later in 1787. In between this 85 year period a lot happened including two important Pennsylvania wars. Everything basically stays the same until 1714 when something happens and Britain controls most of modern-day Pennsylvania and a group of indians called the Iroquois are driven out of modern-day Pennsylvania. Some may ask what happened and the answer I would tell them is that they just expanded and explored nothing much. 40 years later in 1754 the first war that is important to modern-day Pennsylvania, The French and Indian war. This war ends in 1764 making it a ten year war that changed all of Pennsylvania into the 12th

Pennsylvania, nicknamed the Keystone State, may be the 33rd largest state area-wise, but it is the 6th largest population-wise 1. This is most-likely due to urban areas like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, settlement of europeans after the discovery of “The New World” and, possibly, the immense amount of history and contribution to the development of the United States of America. Philadelphia is known as the “birthplace of the United States.”

Based on the physical evidence found on the tour of Philadelphia, we can draw that colonial Philadelphians valued religion greatly, they had advanced architecture and infrastructure, and they carried out very modest attitudes. Some of the most historical figures came from and benefitted the city of Philadelphia including Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Hamilton.

The symbols of this great nation are many. The Liberty Bell, Washington Monument, the Bald Eagle, the White House, and the document that is the foundation on which this country is built, the Constitution of the United States. These symbols are immediately recognized by the citizens of the United States and some internationally, however the one symbol that is universally recognized is the Stars and Stripes. It is the symbol of a free nation whose citizens are allowed to strive for the American dream, the ability to achieve success through hard work, regardless of race, creed, or religious beliefs. Such a symbol should be held sacred and beyond reproach. Defacing the White House, harming a Bald Eagle, or burning the Constitution are considered felony offenses, however desecrating the American Flag is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Standing on, defacing, and burning of the flag by U.S. citizens only creates public unrest and should not be allowed.

The tour also went into detail regarding the impact of historical events on the house and its occupants. The Davenports were owners of black slaves who worked by “tasks” or “shifts” before being given leeway/free time; some of which had other jobs. The family was heavily impacted by the Civil War. I found it particularly interesting that two sons out of the surviving seven fought on opposing sides of the war. There were a total of ten children. In that same time period, there was the epidemic of yellow-fever. We toured the master bedroom where Isaiah is believed to have died of the illness in the 1820s. The business quickly subsided thereafter and the house eventually served as a boarding house, closed and reopened in the sixties as a museum. I was especially appreciative of this element of the tour because it put topics already established in class such as the Civil War, slavery, the Industrial Revolution, IDS and yellow fever into perspective. The tour came across as highly informative and

Nineteenth Century Chicago had numerous flaws within the city compared to the city in present time. Larson’s ideal perception of Chicago in the past was known as the “Black City” (Larson 11). The death rate was increasing rapidly due to the murders and disappearances of people. All across the country, residents of other states knew how disgusting Chicago truly was, and had been judgmental towards their city. Anyone could notice the trembling fear of the construction workers when they had to show up to their profession. “Of the 352 men who worked on the bridge’s notorious east caisson, pressured-related illness, killed twelve, left two crippled for life, and injured sixty-six others, a casualty rate of over 20 percent.” (24). Laborers would go into the harmful work environments every single day; they would never know if the probability of making it out alive. The fowl smelling odors of nineteenth Chicago were so horrendous because of the public health process, which was not produced. “In any street not paved with macadam oozed a fragrant muck of horse manure, mud, and garbage that swelled between granite blocks like pus from a wound.” (28). The civilians of Chicago had not taken care of the hygiene within the city. This led to outbreaks of deadly ailments that killed a mass number of individuals. During the night hours, intolerable noises screeched out to the city’s residents. Means of transportation, such as, trains, trolleys, and hearses strolled down the pavement during

America has made an obsession out of remembering past events by making monuments, like the Lincoln Monument. These type monuments can be used to teach anyone what their country has been through. This is a method that has been in use since long before America was founded, but America is not immune to the influence of Memorials. America uses memorials to commemorate fallen soldiers, influential leaders, founders of peace, and some of the nations most devastating moments, like 9-11. Some of the most important, and well known memorials in the world can be found in America, such as the Washington monument, Lincoln monument and many others.