East Coast of the United States

The California Gold rush of the years 1848-1849 changed the America financial status and the American population. It all started when James Marshall found some shiny metal near the river and he took this to his boss John Sutter and after testing of this metal they found out that this was Gold, But Sutter advised Marshall not to tell anyone about this because this might ruin Sutter’s chance to build a successful agricultural empire in California. But there were rumors and whispers that there was gold

In the early years of the United States’ formation, the country had its roots in the original thirteen colonies. Through years of expansion, the United States grew into the country we know today. Without the migration movements like the pilgrims’ voyage to America, the colonization founding of the original thirteen colonies, and the westward migration in the 1800s for gold and prosperity, the country could not be the way it is today. The colonization of the 1600s and the migration in the 1800s impacted

Over the past 100 years, global sea levels have risen at astounding rates and only now are governments, business, and people beginning to understand just how negatively this will affect the world, not only now, but in the future as well. For many ports the growing issue of how rising sea levels, both locally and globally, is one that they do not have a plan in place to address it. The ports face a negative impact from damage to both their own facilities and equipment, but also the infrastructure

e new unknown  land of the United States of America. Western expansion was a great part of the growth of the  United States because it gave Americans new land to settle, expanded its economy, and made the  United States a world power. The desire to expand was described by newspaper editor John  O’Sullivan who wrote, it is America’s “Manifest Destiny to overspread and to possess the whole  of the continent”.  First of all, westward expansion benefited the United States by increasing the area of  settled property

enabled a shift of change from social, political and economic conformity to more individual techniques and beliefs away from governmental traditions imposed more in the east coast of the nation. As different factors forced people to migrate west in the country it changed not only society and values of people in the west but also the east, transforming into a whole new affluent society. As people started to realize the nations grandness and what the property consisted of the rise in nationalism became

The Railroad Boom The main reason for the transcontinental railroads to be built was to bring the east and west together. The building of these railroads caused huge economic growth throughout the United States. The railroad created opportunities for everyone across the US. “Railroads were the first big business, the first magnet for the great financial markets, and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy. The railroads opened the western half of the nation to economic

American businessmen soon channeled the vast majority of their wealth and efforts into promoting the development of railways in the United States. And with its truly immense territory, growing population, and trailblazing spirit, America soon embraced the idea of a railroad that would connect the Pacific to the Atlantic which would allow for a greater flow of goods from east to west, shorter travel times, and a goal towards its manifest destiny. After five years after Congress passed the Pacific Railroad

The Railroad Boom The main reason for the transcontinental railroads to be built was to bring the east and west together. The building of these railroads caused huge economic growth throughout the United States. The railroad created opportunities for everyone across the US. "Railroads were the first big business, the first magnet for the great financial markets, and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy. The railroads opened the western half of the nation to economic

adventures are influenced by America’s belief in Manifest Destiny, defined here as the attitude that the United States’ expansion westward was destined to happen. Dorothy and her friends’ journey from east to west represents America’s colonial beginnings on the east coast, to their expansion to California and beyond. When Dorothy arrives in the land of Oz she kills the Wicked Witch of the East inadvertently, and is congratulated by the Munchkins as a savior. This is similar to how early American

although it symbolizes the entire United States. The book is narrated by a middle class man by the name of Nick Carraway. The events of the book are told as previous events that are recalled by Nick, who is trying to tell the tale of “The Great Gatsby”. Nick who lives next door to Gatsby is from the midwest and believes he is very moral, as opposed to the rich citizens of New York who he believes are the opposite. By lounging around with people from both the East and West egg, Nick begins to learn