My Local History Project On Dowagiac

The Treaty of St. Peters of 1837 sold the land located in the Minnesota territory to the United States and granted the Ojibwe Indians the privilege of hunting, fishing, and gathering wild rice upon the lands, the rivers and the lakes included in the territory ceded.

The railways became an important system that guided settlement and delivered economic opportunity for much of the United States. Railroads allowed access to places that people had no means of getting to and provided an opportunity to develop cities and towns

The land around Shelby was superior to any other land in the Delta. The land had the buckshot soil, which was preferred for producing cotton. The land that surrounded Shelby could produce any kind of crop that was planted. Shelby also had the best drainage system in Bolivar County (Kelly, 1917 p. 3). Shelby has a canal that empties into a large stream. Shelby also had one of the best track records when it came to business. Shelby’s history includes bank statements and post office receipts that showed how the businesses grew every year.

Railroads were a major part of Northern and even Southern economies. Railroads, which were expanded on 1860, were used to transport crop productions from the south the North. Cotton, Indigo, tobacco, corn and more were sold to Northern markets. Since the South weren’t fully ready or capable to imitate a Northern way of income, they heavily relied on this way of income. In the North, Chicago was seen as the railroad capital. Most goods were sent through this city and Chicago became extremely wealthy later on in

This article describes, in full detail, the many aspects of the transcontinental railroad. In this, there are a few mentions of pioneers, farmers, and regular people that have been affected by the railroad. This article is credible because it is a commonly used site and is quite accurate. The purpose of this website is to inform the reader about the transcontinental railroad. This site connects to this paper, because it provides facts about the transcontinental railroad that are useful in describing how the railroad affected farmers.

For many American settlers, the Great Plains area didn’t spark much interest. But many were beginning to change their minds in the years leading up to the Civil War. As the Continental railroad was beginning to move westward, many were beginning to realize how wrong they were. “Settlers in Kansas found no desert, but millions of acres of fertile soil.”(DOC 1) Many settlers raced to the west to try to snag a plot of land in the west to hopefully start a new chapter in their lives. The transcontinental railroad also helped businesses boom by transporting goods much faster by the railroad. Also, the transcontinental railroad didn’t only transport goods to businesses, it also transported settlers from coast to coast. “After the transcontinental railroad was completed, it cost $150 and took one week. For the first time, U.S. Americans could freely travel from coast to coast. This radically changed both business and pleasure travel.”(How the Transcontinental Railroad Changed America) For many settlers, the transcontinental railroad was revolutionizing transportation. From delivering goods, to transporting people across the coast. We can all agree the transcontinental railroad

Leopold Pokagon worked to find a way to keep his tribe from having to leave their land. In 1830, he went to Detroit to meet with Catholic officials to request a “Blackrobe” or a priest to be assigned to his tribe. Pokagon felt that joining the Catholic Church would counteract the Baptists and an important help in their fight against removal. By converting to Catholicism, the St. Joseph River Valley Potawatomi were renamed the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi.

After the construction of the railroad, more and more cargo was given the opportunity to be shipped between states. Raw materials from the newly found land in the West were able to be quickly shipped to the East. This change helped the states ship over 50 million dollars worth of cargo between each other in the first ten years after construction. The railroad allowed the Eastern states and Western States exchange goods easily and efficiently. Shipping between states was now easier and cheaper than ever before causing commerce to increase rapidly. Farms began to pop up along the railroad. The goods manufactured at these farms were easily distributed because of the transcontinental railroad. Markets were extended because of the railroad construction. More people wanted to start new businesses because they saw opportunities with the railroad and how much easier it was to sell and ship goods. Items that were once scarce and hard to buy were now greatly manufactured and simple to purchase and receive. The transcontinental railroad also expanded the area as to where items can be shipped to. Items were once only able to be sold locally, but since the railroad helped create an outlet for more products, commerce extended majorly. The now larger market made manufactured goods more convenient to buy which increased

Benjamin Tappan, Jr., an attorney from Connecticut, was the first person to settle in Western Reserve’s Township 3, Range 8, now known as Ravenna, Ohio. His father owned more than 10,000 acres in the southern two thirds of the township. Tappan Jr. moved there in June 1799, traveling part of the way with David Hudson, who was on his way to settle the nearby township bearing his name. With his father’s power of attorney, Tappan Jr. divided the land into 66 lots of about 160 acres each to be sold to settlers. He selected a site in the center of his land for the town.

When war was declared in seventeen hundred fifty six, a bonus was offered by the governor of Pennsylvania for Indian scalps. Not much came of it at that time but when the Pontiac War began in seventeen hundred sixty three, a letter written by John Elder, a Presbyterian minister “found that his neighborhood had no appetite for fighting Indians”. (163) The scalp bounty was increased and it brought a flood of

I am starting my essay with what place I am doing. I am doing White Haven, Pennsylvania, It is a New Sweeden land turned into Pennsylvania land. This city is a small town, there is not so much history of this city. The Historical Landmarks I think are very interesting, The Liberty Bell and Gettysburg Battlefield. I personally think that this is a very interesting city myself. The Liberty bell is a bell that was first rung on July 8, 1776 to celebrate the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence. Gettysburg Battlefield is a Battle fought by Union and Confederate forces during the American civil war. I would love to go and see the Liberty bell and the Gettysburg Battlefield. I’m not into history that much, but I would still like to go see those things.

Bath, Michigan is a small town approximately fifteen minutes northeast of Lansing, the state capital, and is the only place outside of Ann Arbor I call home. On the surface, Bath is a typical small town where nearly every resident is a familiar face and most classmates are together from pre-school to twelfth grade. {However, looking into Bath’s history reveals a much richer past than one might expect from a town of its size.} *Combine and make better – Bath = normal boring history with a few colorful/ interesting points*{In addition to the usual agriculture-centered history typical of towns in the area, Bath holds several interesting chapters in its history books.} These interesting chapters include unique traditions such as the annual Bath Tub Races (which is exactly what it sounds like), but the most unique, if not defining, chapter is that of the Bath School Disaster.

Although white European settlers and the native Indians had existed moderately peaceful for around 40 years pressures rose in the mid-seventh century. Conflict arose due to decline in Indian territories, population, and their cultural integrity. These differences ultimately lead to conflicts in which collectively became known as King Philip’s War. What types of complaints did the Indians have against the settlers? How were the Indians expected to survive if the settlers kept taking their land? The primary sources in this collection of source documents touch upon on what each group (Indian or white settlers) did to survive: an excerpt from a narrative written by John Easton, a second hand account written by Thomas Church, a report written to the English leaders by Edward Randolph, a petition written by an Indian named William Nahton, and an excerpt of an account from a book written by Mary Rowlandson. These documents illustrate the main causes that sparked the war between the Native Indians and the white English settlers, narratives written by both sides to find peaceful solutions, and actual accounts of people who survived the conflict. The second hand account written about Benjamin Church’s meeting with the Indian group known as the Sakonnet Indians displays that the Indians knew their only chance of survival was to fight while the report written to English leaders by Randolph suggest that the settlers who viewed the Indians as uncivilized had ultimately forced the Indians

I went to the Moca Jax exposition by Andrew Moore, where out of the all the expositions there, that one that got my attention the most since it showed how forgetful humans can be. By showing all the abandoned places that in a period of time, they were the main attraction of those specific places. The Moca Jax also explained how the landscape has changed through time. Also showcased was how nature takes back what it deem hers, which comes down to the idea that no matter what human do, nature will always win over it.

Yes, I was thinking about doing an article from the Ottawa Citizen about Ancient Menoral Roman Treasure, but I did not know very much about the Gothic King Alaric. Therefore, I chose The Lost Palace of Sparta Possibly Uncovered instead, because I have studied Homer 's Iliad, Classical Archaeology,