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Fur Trade Railroad Companies
639 wordsIn the New World, Europeans looked for ways so bring wealth. The source of wealth came from many different trades, the fishing aspect, oil, gold, slavery, and most of all land. Coming with the land wild animals that could be hunted, for sport, food, and most important fur. The fur that came from these animals was largely used in the world for clothing, leather for protection in the army, and to make the finest clothes from. The discovery of the buffalo help the fur trade really take off in the 1...
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Powell Was One Gilpin And His Contemporaries West
1,137 wordsThe West -" home on the range where the deer and the antelope play; where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the sky is not cloudy all day. " The romantic idea of the land west of the hundredth meridian has often inspired songs and poetry, like this one, about idyllic conditions in this dry "paradise. " Often these ideas did not prove to be completely accurate, and a very few people attempted to present the facts to the public to dispel the romantic ideas of an effortless existence in these...
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Jimmy Carter James Earl
585 wordsJimmy Carter formally known as James Earl Carter, Jr. was born on October 1, 1924 and was the oldest of four children. He was born in a small farming town of Plains, Georgia and grew up in the nearby community if Archery. Jimmy's father, James Earl Carter, Sr. , was a peanut farmer and a storekeeper while his mother, Lillian Gordy, was a registered nurse. Jimmy Carter worked on the farm but as a boy dreamed of attending the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland because his uncle in the Unit...
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A Day In Criminal Court
1,261 wordsThis week I had the opportunity to sit in on criminal court proceedings. I chose to visit the White Plains Court House for the day and noticed quite a few things through out the whole experience. I have been to different courts in the past, criminal, traffic, and family, but never in the White Plains building. There were many details of the proceedings, the image, and even the conditions of everything from the building itself to the people involved that I found particularly interesting. The firs...
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U S Political Million Members
1,201 wordsIn spite of their remarkable progress, 19 th-century American farmers experienced recurring periods of hardship. Several basic factors were involved -- soil exhaustion, the vagaries of nature, a decline in self-sufficiency, and the lack of adequate legislative protection and aid. Perhaps most important, however, was over-production. Along with the mechanical improvements which greatly increased yield per hectare, the amount of land under cultivation grew rapidly throughout the second half of the...
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Trade And Investment Goods And Services
1,986 wordsEnvironmental Forces In the business market there is so much competition that companies sell outside the country to increase sales. Increasing internationalization of business is requiring managers to have a global business perspective and an understanding of the differences in the environmental forces of the markets in which they operate. Decision making in the international environment is more complex and having an understanding of the external environmental forces enables international manage...
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Crazy Horse Red Cloud
835 wordsRed Clouds Revenge is a historical novel about the grim recollection of detailed events and days / months before the showdown between the US Cavalry & Sioux Indians on the northern plains of 1867. Fetterman, Brown & Grummond rode out ahead of seventy-eight soldiers that day on December 21 st 1866. In hopes of driving out some Sioux Indians and bring some scalps home. Many soldiers guard was down when Fetterman's entire force disappeared over Trail Lodge Ridge. None of them were ever seen alive a...
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North American Physical Patterns
814 wordsPhysical patterns in geography relates to Landforms, Natural vegetation, Climate, and Agriculture. There are wide variety of Landforms, Natural vegetation, Climate, and Agriculture. The physical patterns can affect North America by the appearance and the type of elevation there is. Landforms Two types of landforms are plains and lowlands and also hills. Plains and lowlands are usually found north of the Mississippi river in North America. They have high elevation and a flat appearance. Plains an...
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Valley Of Mexico Percent Of The Land
1,140 wordster> The Effect of Increased Greenhouse Gasses on Mexico and it's Effort to Reduce Environmental Damage Introduction For over a hundred years, scientists have been carefully gathering and verifying data on the earth's temperature. The latest data reveals some striking trends: All 10 of the warmest years on record have occurred in the last 15 years The 1990 's have already been warmer than the 1980 's- the warmest decade on record The global average surface temperature has risen 0. 5 de...
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Grapes Of Wrath Dust Bowl
963 wordsIt was a terrible time for the people in the United States' Great Plains when a seemingly endless drought followed excessive plowing of the soil and caused the earth to let loose it's hold on it's very skin. The stripped red soil boiled up into the air, infiltrating every crevice it could find, inanimate or alive. The Dream Wheat was a treasure crop in the 1920 s. With more and more farmers owning tractors and combines they were seeing greater yields and profits than ever before. As a result the...
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Surface Of The Earth Earth Surface
2,510 wordsIn giving to the treatise here announced the name of an Essay on the Theory of the Earth, the Editor has taken a liberty that is certainly not warranted by the original. The title of the French work makes no mention whatever of the theory of the earth. The fact is, that M. CUVIER having published, in the Annales de Museum, a succession of memoirs on the fossil remains of animals found in the strata around Paris, (of which an account was given in the 20 th vol. of this Journal), was very naturall...
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Six Year Term Valley Of Mexico
2,152 wordsClimate Change And Mexico The Effect of Increased Greenhouse Gasses on Mexico and it s Effort to Reduce Environmental Damage Introduction For over a hundred years, scientists have been carefully gathering and verifying data on the earth s temperature. The latest data reveals some striking trends: All 10 of the warmest years on record have occurred in the last 15 years The 1990 s have already been warmer than the 1980 s- the warmest decade on record The global average surface temperature has rise...
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Valley Of Mexico Sierra Madre
859 wordsThe Effect of Increased Greenhouse Gasses on Mexico and its Effort to Reduce Environmental Damage Introduction For over a hundred years, scientists have been carefully gathering and verifying data on the earths temperature. The latest data reveals some striking trends: All 10 of the warmest years on record have occurred in the last 15 years The 1990 s have already been warmer than the 1980 s- the warmest decade on record The global average surface temperature has risen 0. 5 degrees (site source)...
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Consequential Ist Ethical Theory
1,486 wordsFlood Plain Ethics: The Conflicts Between Utilitarianism Flood Plain Ethics: The Conflicts Between Utilitarianism And Aldo Leopold S Land Ethics This paper will discuss the conflicts between the utilitarian ethical theory and the ethical theory put forth by Aldo Leopold known as The Land Ethic. The question chosen to express the philosophical differences central in the two theories is, what should we do with flood plain land use? The land use issue in general requires careful consideration. The ...
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Three Or Four Dollars A Month
1,864 wordsAlthough the main existence of the cowboy lasted only about two decades, the mark that they made on society, then and now, is significant. The cowboy was just a regular person that worked hard and earned little. Although his life has been embellished by movie makers and writers, he was just a regular American looking for a way to earn a living. We usually think of cowboys as white males, however, there were also women and people of all nationalities. The word cowboy was coined in Ireland over a ...
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U S Political Million Members
1,196 wordsThe World of the Farmer In spite of their remarkable progress, 19 th-century American farmers experienced recurring periods of hardship. Several basic factors were involved soil exhaustion, the vagaries of nature, a decline in self-sufficiency, and the lack of adequate legislative protection and aid. Perhaps most important, however, was over-production. Along with the mechanical improvements which greatly increased yield per hectare, the amount of land under cultivation grew rapidly throughout t...
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Santa Fe Doc Holliday
815 wordsFORD COUNTY by Brandon Noll Ford County was named in honor of Colonel James H. Ford, of the Second Colorado Calvary, Commander at Fort Dodge, once a Military Reservation of about 12, 000 acres. It was the most important military outpost on the Santa Fe Trail from about 1858 to 1882. Land was homesteaded by settlers and some land was purchased, coming from two sources, the Santa Fe Land Grant and the Osage Treaty Lands. Dodge City, was declared the county seat and was a famous frontier town and s...
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President Of The United States Jimmy Carter
397 wordsJimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr. ), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born October 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr. , was a farmer and businessman and his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B. S. degree from the United States Na...
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Endangered Animals Zebras Zebra
382 wordsDeep ebony, blinding cream, these are the colors of the zebra. The zebra is one unique animal. Zebras are one of the marvelous animals in Africa. About the size of a small horse, these amazing animals are about 50 - 53 inches in height. When a male zebra grows up, he can weigh up to 520 pounds! Its a good thing that the female zebra is friendly. It can weigh a whopping 510 pounds, almost as much as the male! Zebras usually do not attack unless threatened though, whew! The large animal, the zebra...
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Iron Ore Tall Grass
1,804 wordsMinnesota, state in the north central United States, south of Canada and west of Wisconsin. Its total area is 225, 181 sq km (86, 943 sq mi). The state name comes from a Sioux word meaning cloudy water, first applied to the Minnesota River. Minnesota is known as the Gopher State; no one is sure why. It is also called Land of 10, 000 Lakes and in fact contains 15, 000. The capital is Saint Paul. II. Physical Geography Most of Minnesota has been shaped by glaciers. The northeastern part of the sta...
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