Historical Essay: Roads in the 1800’s Roads in the United States in the nineteenth century were pretty hard to construct, but did play an important role in the road industry in America. In this time period, there was the National Road, new ways of building roads and the first toll roads. All of these have influenced the road industry and how they were built.
Transportation vastly improved in the early 1800s. As production increased, people needed faster and easier ways to transport their product. In the early 1800s, the steam locomotive was a huge advancement. “In the early 1800s, pioneers like George Stephenson developed steam-powered locomotives to pull carriages along iron rails” (202). This was a big advancement because a railroad track did not have to follow a river.
The Civil War may have set over 4 million slaves free, but the Reconstruction Era brought a whole new set of problems. The Reconstruction Era was the period of time after the Civil War, in which the Confederacy was supposed to rebuild itself into a new and improved country, but that didn’t happen. Former President, Abraham Lincoln, had come up with new ideas to bring together the country. Those ideas included things, such as finding aid former slaves in funding education, healthcare, and employment, but before that could happen, on April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln. The Reconstruction Era made America the way it is today by providing former Americans with the tools to use for success.
Humans have invented several tools that have proved helpful throughout history. But as we look back, we wonder, “What is the most important invention in human history?” There are many answers, but I undoubtedly believe that the wheel and axle is the most important invention in human history. The wheel and axle is one of the six simple machines, devices that change the direction or magnitude of a force.
For slaves, their lives and value were dictated the plant they labor for and their slave holder philosophy of a slave life expectancy. The slave trade focused with particular intensity on people of “prime age” which being fifteen to twenty five. Slaves were viewed in an animalistic and dehumanized connation. A Mississippi planter John Knight discussed how a planter ideal slave force would be “ half men and half women…young say 16-25,stout limbs, large chests, wide shoulders and hips, etc.”(159) Walter Johnson illustrated “slave labor was a bloody and hierarchical social relation.
Trains helped and worked in various ways during the 1800’s. Railroads were helping the economy surge forward. As the system grew, farmers and manufacturers could ship goods further. Railroads tied the communities together and helped cities grow.
Although the Pony Express didn’t last very long, it still had a huge impact in the time of the 1860’s. Between January and March of 1860, William Waddell, William Russell and Alexander Majors established the Pony Express. It was called the Central Overland California & Pikes Peak Express Company. They then had to chose two places to set up at. Out in the east St. Joseph, Missouri and out in the west Sacramento, California.
In 1793, Eli Whitney’s cotton gin removed seeds from cotton fibers. Because of the cotton gin, Southerners increased highly profitable cotton production, depended heavily on slavery, and joined an expanding clothing market with New England and Britain. Eli Whitney demonstrated interchangeable musket parts to Congress in 1801. Nearly identical musket parts could easily be produced and replaced. During the Civil War, soldiers could simply and inexpensively repair damaged Springfield rifles.
Factory Working Working in the 1800’s was hard and was very dangerous, by the mid 1800’s America was using machines to produce most things such as clothing, shoes, watches, , guns, and farming machines. The workers would work an average of 11.4 hours a day. The workers were very tired. The factories were very rugged and dangerous, there were fast rapidly moving parts exposed and that cuased many accidents with adults and children.
Pony Express David Torres Period 5 The first riders left from Sacramento on April 3, 1860. The people delivering the mail was paid around 100 to 130 dollars as a salary. William h Russell was one of the people to ride the pony express. The pony express wasnt popular at first but eventually did.
The steam engine, invented in 1698, was not put too much use until the 1760’s. Even so they weren’t too good for anything until the they were used in steamboats. Steamboats could travel up river! This was something unheard of in the 1800’s. people could save money and time!
In the mural "Going To The Olympics,1984," by Frank Romero, vivid symbols that show meaning to the mural. Romero has a certain details that makes you understand what the theme of the canvas is. He paints palm trees and vivid colors of the sun to represent Los Angeles within the vivid colors of the sun he draws arm wrestlers to represent the Olympics. He includes cars and hearts on top of them, also a blimp to show more representative of Los Angeles. The hearts on top of the cars represents the love of Los Angeles people for there cars.