Colt Revolver: Inspiration From A Ship’s Wheel
.... he got an American patent.
In 1837 he tried to to interest the U.S. Government into adopting this sidearm for military use, however they declined, stating that they were satisfied with what they had already. Colt however, was a master salesman. He knew that he had a great inverntion on his hands. To show just what he had, he packed a bundle of pistols into a bag and visited a battlefield, the best place to demonstrate killing power. That was the Seminole Indian war in Florida. There he demonstrated the weapons efficient use to the U.S. officers there. The officers were amazed at what they found and quickly ordered more. Captain G .....
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Events Of The Civil War
.... most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy.
CUTTING OFF THE SOUTH
In September of 1864, General William T. Sherman and his army cleared the city of Atlanta of its civilian population then rested ever so briefly. It was from there that General Sherman and his army began its famous "march to the sea". The march covered a distance of 400 miles and was 60 miles wide on the way. For 32 days no news of him reached the North. He had cut himself off from his base of supplies, and his men lived on what ever they could get from the country through which they passed. On their route, t .....
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Causes Of Civil War
.... The Compromise of 1850 stated that should be equal number of free and slave states. The Missouri Compromise said that any state above the latitude of 36 30' can not be a slave state. "Bleeding Kansas" was where people were fighting over the issue of slavery and cost many American Lives. The California Gold Rust occurred when gold was discovered in California and people rushed out to California.When California apply for statehood, it cause huge problems because North and the South wanted control of the gold in the state. Manifest Destiny was where Americans believe that they had the right to expand westward. The Treatment of Nat .....
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The Battle Of Midway
.... Navy Pacific Bases declared Midway second only to Pearl Harbor in importance, construction of a formal naval air station began.
Midway naval Air Station was placed in commission in August 1941. By that time Midway's facilities included a large sea plane hanger and ramps, artificial harbor, fuel storage tanks and several buildings. Hundreds of civilian construction workers and a defense battalion of the Fleet Marine Force populated Sand Island, while Eastern Island boasted a 5,300-foot airstrip. Commander Cyril T. Simard, a Veteran naval pilot who had served as a air officer on the carrier USS Langley and as executive office .....
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The Springfield Armory
.... power to the facility. Another advantage of Springfield was that since it was a struggling village, it was not hard to find employees because at this point, the people of Springfield would take a job wherever they could find it. In the beginning, all of the muskets made were manufactured individually by hand. In 1795, forty employees made 245 flintlock muskets in one month. Soon after its inception, the Springfield Armory became a center for technology advances to improve production and efficiency. In 1819, a gentleman named Thomas Blanchard invented a machine that would drastically speed up manufacturing. In the beginning, .....
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The Presidencies Of Jefferson And Madison
.... to his constituents. This article proves that the Jeffersonian Republicans were strict constructionist.
The Embargo Act of 1807 was meant not to win a war but to keep peace. The Embargo Act prohibited all United States ships from leaving for foreign ports to export American goods. This caused many New Englanders to become disgruntled with what the federal government had done to them. Many New Englanders felt that the government was using the constitution to attempt to control foreign commerce in an unconstitutional way. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that the government can order an embargo. Jefferson was able to or .....
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Early Flight
.... MD. In 1867, when Langley was 33 years of age, he took the position of a director at the Allegheny Observatory. He then became a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh. His main interest was solar activity and the effect that it had on the weather. In 1878, Langley invented the Bolometer, which is a radiant-head detector that is sensitive to the differences in temperature to onehundred-thousandth of a degree. This invention allowed Langley to study the star spectrum into its infrared region and it also allowed him to study the effects of solar radiation at the different wavelengths. While .....
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Iraq And The United States
.... spending of the U.S. dollar. Warner stated: "Based on briefings tax payers have spent $750 million on the Gulf War effort," (USA TODAY 2/27/98). This outrage spending could be used to solve the United States economical burdens, and it would be horrible if the world's only remaining superpower uses its awesome might to slather a stricken little country where hunger is a daily menace.
The "U.S Patriotic Spirit" is at question with the United States People. At the end of the 1991 Gulf War the country went into a great recession. Many Americans lost their jobs and homes. Americans according to a recent CNN Poll are not supportin .....
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The Civil War
.... they did not want to change their lifestyles like the North.
On February 4, the seceding states met in Montgomery, Alabama. There, they formed the Confederate States of America. They also made Montgomery their capital. They wrote a constitution, chose a legislature, and elected a president. The president that was elected was Jefferson Davis from Mississippi, and a vice-president, Alexander Stephens.
Jefferson Davis was born in 1808 in Christian County, Kentucky. As a boy he grew up in Mississippi and went to a catholic school. Then he went to Transylvania University in 1821 and graduated at West Point in 1828. .....
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Why The North Won The Civil War
.... served the dual purpose of providing food for its hungry soldiers and money for its ever-growing industries. The South, on the other hand, devoted most of what arable land it had exclusively to its main cash crop: cotton (Catton, The Coming Fury 38). Raw materials were almost entirely concentrated in Northern mines and refining industries. Railroads and telegraph lines, the veritable lifelines of any army, traced paths all across the Northern countryside but left the South isolated, outdated, developed in the form of economic colonialism. The Confederates were and starving (See Appendices). The final death knell for a m .....
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The New Deal
.... 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 acts which Roosevelt introduced that helped Americans a great deal. The important thing about theses acts is that America now had a “big” government. They took control, instead of just letting the people work out there own prob .....
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The Great Depression
.... caused many people to turn to relief, which is government support to help families get through the month. Relief was a sign of laziness and an embarrassment to the parents and children. Even with the support of the government many children were malnutrition and many people died of starvation. People fought for food in the streets and even though there were food shelters to help people, The Great Depression impact city life greatly.
Yet the city was not the only place that The Depression was felt. Farm life was also a large concern. Even though the farmer had lots of food it was more than they could sell, sence .....
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