.... cargo passed through the Isthmus by a railroad that connected the two ports. The most important cargo was the gold mined in California before the transcontinental railroad was completed in the United States. It has strategic significance because of its location, acting as a gateway connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This allows for rapid naval deployment between fleets in either ocean. These two facets make the Panama Canal very important in the region. LaFeber notes that Panamanian nationalism played a large role in the creation of the canal and, consequently .....

.... a boycott by the colonists. The Tea act which gave the East Indian Tea company a monopoly on tea. And The coercive Acts, which led the upper legislative chamber of govtermant to be appointed rather than elected. These laws passed by England made the colonists furious because it took away their rights to choose what kind of tea they liked or pick who they thought fit to be in the legislature. This led to a rising level of political tension between the colonists and the mother country. These tensions finally led the colonist to the first continental congress. While the Cont .....

.... now demanding war more than ever. They blamed the explosion on Spain and told McKinley to go to war. McKinley had decided to go to war even though Spain had given in to America's demands. He didn't want to look like a coward to the American people. He was also afraid that resisting war would cost Republicans control of Congress in the fall elections. The battle for the Philippines was very important to the war. This is where Spain's fleet was. The US took it out. This was very important because now, Spain only had its land crew. This was one of the factors that ended the w .....

.... to tell her. When Vincent shared his feelings with Ursula, he discovered that the thought of loving him had never entered her head. In 1875 Uncle Cent arranged for him to be transferred to the Paris office in the hope that his spirits might be revived by a change in scene. Here he became increasingly careless in his work. He was given three months notice, and then six years of training as an art dealer came to an end. He was almost twenty-three, unemployed, and had not the slightest idea what he would do next. Vincent decided to return to England, where he found a jo .....

.... brought back imports in Conetoga wagons. A Conestoga wagon is a big covered wagon. The county seats were developed in the southern colonies. A county seat is a main town in each county. A county is a large part of the colony. Colonies with cash crops would take their crops to the county seat several times a year to sell them and buy imports. The cities were developed in the middle 1700's along the Atlantic coast where there were good harbors. Ships docked at these harbors and brought imports from England and left with exports from the colonies. An export is goods that w .....

.... Holiday”, which temporarily closed banks so that they could be examined and reopened, if fit to do so, with a Treasury Department license. Another way that he took charge was by cutting federal workers’ salaries, and veterans’ pensions and benefits, and anything else that would reduce spending. Roosevelt then created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which gave jobs to young Americans, and also diverted their anger at the government. Another major act was the Federal Emergency Relief Act, which gave 500 million dollars to replenish city funds. There were many other ac .....

.... my mind is old and I have lost most my memory. In a year around 1482, I began to give service to the Duke of Milan. After writing him a letter explaining to him my ideas of building portable bridges and other techniques I knew he made me principal engineer of his numerous military enterprises. I also acted as an architect and assisted the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli in the work Divina Proportione. During my long stay in Milan, I created drawings and paintings models for the dome of Milan Cathedral and architectural drawings. My largest commission was for a colossal .....

.... it was the huge stock market crash that occurred in 1929. Many people lost a lot of money when the market crashed. Herbert Clark Hoover was president at that time and many people blamed him, and were very upset about his decisions involving the economy. They dealt with their anger by not reelecting Hoover, but instead, electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president the next time around. He was the one who helped get the economy back in shape by creating a program called the "Big Deal." The Big Deal was a government funded program that gave jobs to the jobless, an .....