America
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Industrial Revolution
Before the Industrial Revolution, people worked in small-scale businesses. The two primary and predominant examples, are farming and artisan handicrafts. Those social structures had basically remained unchanged, since the Middle Ages. Life was lived in small to medium sized villages. Travel beyond a person’s village was rare. Then, during the middle decades of the 18th century, Britain and other European countries saw a rise in their population. In order to serve this increased number of people, a gradual transformation from villages and small-scale production into a large, mechanized system of higher productivity took place. Read more about this transformative time in history: Source: National Geographic
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Brooklyn Bridge History
The Brooklyn Bridge had its opening on May 24, 1883. The bridge had the distinction of being the first and longest, fixed crossing of the East River. It is a hybrid meaning both a cable stayed bridge as well as a suspension bridge, when it opened. Initially, it was called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, only to officially be renamed, in 1915, the Brooklyn Bridge. The bridge boasted, at the time of its opening, to be the longest suspension bridge in the world with a span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m).
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American Presidents
List of United States Presidents Categories: America, presidential history, Tags: presidents of the united states of america, who were the presidents 1. George Washington2. John Adams3. Thomas Jefferson4. James Madison5. James Monroe6. John Quincy Adams7. Andrew Jackson8. Martin Van Buren9. William Henry Harrison 10. John Tyler11. James K. Polk12. Zachary Taylor13. Millard Fillmore14. Franklin Pierce15. James Buchanan16. Abraham Lincoln17. Andrew Johnson18. Ulysses S. Grant19. Rutherford B. Hayes20. James Garfield21. Chester A. Arthur22. Grover Cleveland23. Benjamin Harrison24. Grover Cleveland25. William McKinley 26. Theodore Roosevelt27. William Howard Taft28. Woodrow Wilson29. Warren G. Harding30. Calvin Coolidge31. Herbert Hoover32. Franklin D. Roosevelt33. Harry S. Truman34. Dwight D. Eisenhower35. John F. Kennedy36. Lyndon B. Johnson37.…
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Discovery of the North Pole
There is controversy over who the true discoverer of the North Pole really is. There is no doubt, however, that Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) American explorer and physician, along with another American explorer, Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920), both claimed (though separately achieved) to have reached the ultimate unconquered destination of the era; the frozen unknown at the geographic north point of the Earth’s axis of rotation, where children imagine Santa Claus lives. (A caveat is not to confuse geographic north with magnetic north). We are referring to the discovery of geographic north. Featured the detailed map showing Cook…
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History of the American Birthday Celebration
Birthday celebrations in America crossed over the line between a few rich and celebrated individuals to the rest of us, sometime around 1860 – 1880. We can thank two factors for this change in emphasis. Children became seen less for their economic necessity, as workers, and valued more emotionally, as individuals and as beloved family members. Therefore, worthy of celebration for just being alive. Also, the production of household and workplace clocks became widespread, quite a change from the rare clock of the preindustrial period. The clock along with the time focus of factory work and the like, street cars etc., made Americans much more time conscious. Because of these…
