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	History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993
		As early as 1896, before many people in the United States were aware of a new mode of transportation that would eventually supplant the horse and buggy, the Post Office Department experimented with the "horseless wagon" in its search for faster and cheaper carriage of the mails.
		In the meantime, in the first half of the 19th century, the population of the United States began to flow steadily into the newly acquired territories of Louisiana, Oregon, and California.
		The Post Office Department of the Confederate States of America was established on February 21, 1861, by an Act of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States.
	www.usps.com /history/his2.htm (2900 words)

	United States History - MSN Encarta
		When the United States acquired Texas, New Mexico, and California at the end of the Mexican War in 1848, it incorporated many Mexicans who lived in what had been the northern border area of Mexico.
		The United States had promised Mexico to protect the freedom and property of Mexicans who remained in the area ceded to the United States, but American ranchers and other settlers took control of territorial governments and forced Hispanic settlers off their land.
		Federal troops arrived to enforce the injunction against the union, riots ensued, the strike was crushed, and Debs was arrested, convicted, and imprisoned.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_1741500823_21/United_States_(History).html (2544 words)

	List of United States history articles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of articles related to the History of the United States.
		History of Detroit, Michigan - History of Los Angeles, California - History of New York City - History of Seattle, Washington
		African American history - Demographic history of the United States - History of the Jews in the United States - History of immigration to the United States - History of feminism in the United States - History of Mexican-Americans
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_United_States_history_articles (211 words)

	United States History: The Gilded Age (1890) to World War I
		The United States was victorious in the war, and Spain relinquished Cuba and ceded to the United States the Philippine Islands,
		The number of trusts in the United States had increased greatly at the end of the 19th century; only 60 had existed in the United States before the Spanish-American War, whereas 183 were formed between 1899 and 1901.
		Wilson's social, economic, and political policies as a unit are sometimes known as the New Freedom, from the title of a volume by him published in 1913 and containing significant passages from his addresses in the campaign of 1912.
	www.emayzine.com /lectures/Gilded~1.htm (2121 words)

	Timeline of United States railway history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1810s-1830s: Various inventors and entrepreneurs make suggestions about building model railways in the United States; In 1825 John Stevens (inventor) builds a test track and runs a locomotive around it in Hoboken, New Jersey.
		1940s: World War II brings railroads the highest ridership in American history, as soldiers are being sent to fight overseas in the Pacific Theater and the European Theater.
		1950s and 1960s: Drastic decline in railroad travel in the United States of America, due to automobiles, trucks, and airplanes, as first jetliners take to the air.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_railway_history (794 words)

	Colorado, state, United States: History
		The United States bought the area N of the Arkansas River and E of the Rocky Mts.
		Prosperity was short-lived, however, for in the 1890s, despite a rich silver strike at Creede and the discovery of the state's richest gold field at Cripple Creek, Colorado suffered a depression.
		Labor conflicts, disputes over railway franchises, and warfare between sheep and cattle interests also plagued the state at the turn of the century.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0857459.html (1040 words)

	Wikinfo \| History of rail transport
		In 1812 Oliver Evans, a United States engineer and inventor, published his vision of what steam railways could become, with cities and towns linked by a network of long distance railways plied by speedy locomotives, greatly reducing the time required for personal travel and for transport of goods.
		In the beginning, canals were in competition with the railroads, but the railroads quickly gained ground as steam and rail technology improved, and railroads were built in places where canals were not practical.
		In the 20th century, highways and air travel replaced railroads for most long-distance passenger travel in the United States, but railroads remain important for hauling freight in the United States, and for passenger transport in many other countries.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=History_of_rail_transport (861 words)

	History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993
		As early as 1896, before many people in the United States were aware of a new mode of transportation that would eventually supplant the horse and buggy, the Post Office Department experimented with the "horseless wagon" in its search for faster and cheaper carriage of the mails.
		In the meantime, in the first half of the 19th century, the population of the United States began to flow steadily into the newly acquired territories of Louisiana, Oregon, and California.
		The Post Office Department of the Confederate States of America was established on February 21, 1861, by an Act of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States.
	www.usps.gov /history/his2.htm (2900 words)

	WWW-VL: History: United States History: US Maps & Atlases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		1870 United States - Census Atlases 1870, 1880, 1890
		1880 United States - Census Atlases 1870, 1880, 1890
		1890 United States - Census Atlases 1870, 1880, 1890
	vlib.iue.it /history/USA/maps.html (578 words)

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		Railways were introduced in England in the seventeenth century as a way to reduce friction in moving heavily loaded wheeled vehicles.
		Numerous maps of the United States and individual states and counties were made which clearly indicated the sections of the granted land and the railroad rights-of-way.
		Henry Varnum Poor, History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States of America (New York: John H. Schulz and Co., 1860), p.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrintro.html (4835 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of History of the United States, by Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard.
		If the study of history cannot be made truly progressive like the study of mathematics, science, and languages, then the historians assume a grave responsibility in adding their subject to the already overloaded curriculum.
		HISTORY OF The tide of migration that set in toward the shores of North America during the early years of the seventeenth century was but one phase in the restless and eternal movement of mankind upon the surface of the earth.
		By one of the strange fortunes of history, this institution, founded in the early days of Christianity, proved to be a potent force in the origin and growth of self-government in a land far away from Galilee.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16960/16960-h/16960-h.htm (14273 words)

	United States Historical Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
		The maps above are from The National Atlas of the United States of America (Arch C. Gerlach, editor).
		Admission of States and Territorial Acquistion U.S. Bureau of the Census (341K)
		From The Statistics of the Population of the United States, Compiled from the Original Returns of the Ninth Census, 1872.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /Libs/PCL/Map_collection/histus.html (1269 words)

	World History Compass, United States History
		The Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism in the United States.
		History of the railroads in the State of Kansas.
		History and archaeology of the Spanish fort and town of Santa Elena on Port Royal Sound in South Carolina.
	www.worldhistorycompass.com /usa.htm (4631 words)

	history book
		In 1837, the United States experienced a severe economic depression that destroyed the newly formed General Trades’ Unions and brought workers’ strikes, marches, and rallies to an abrupt halt.
		This meant that in "right to work" states, workers who were employed at a union workplace could refuse to join the union, even as they benefited from the higher wages and the improved working conditions secured in the union contract.
		State federations, like the one in Iowa, often lobby for strong protective labor legislation like increases in the areas of compensation for injured workers, unemployment compensation, and job safety and health.
	www.iowaaflcio.org /history_book.htm (18537 words)

	Southern Railway History
		Southern Railway is the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined since the 1830s.
		Southern Railway was created in 1894, largely from the financially-stressed Richmond and Danville system and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.
		In 1953, Southern Railway became the first major railroad in the United States to convert totally to diesel-powered locomotives, ending its rich history in the golden age of steam.
	www.srha.net /public/History/history.htm (492 words)

	historyofbkinusa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		History's annals are replete with tales of draconian treatment of debtors.
		The 1732 Statute of George II n45 was the English bankruptcy law in effect at the time of the ratification of the United States Constitution and the passage of the first United States bankruptcy law in 1800.
		The states picked up part of the slack and continued to regulate relations between debtors and creditors, bankruptcy, and insolvency during the lengthy era of federal inaction after the 1803 repeal.
	www.bankruptcyfinder.com /historyofbkinusa.html (15364 words)

	United States History - Professors - Kenneth Cruikshank
		Ken Cruikshank is interested in the history of business and the development of the administrative state in Canada and the United States, particularly between the 1880s and World War II.
		His publications include Close Ties: Railways, Government and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851-1933; contributions to two collections of essays in Canadian business and economic history; as well as scholarly articles in Acadiensis, Canadian Historical Review and Canadian Papers in Business History.
		He is currently studying the impact of the Intercolonial Railway on the social and economic development of the Maritimes, and the regulation of recreational and popular activities in Hamilton Harbour.
	www.humanities.mcmaster.ca /ushistory/cruikshank.html (180 words)

	ThinkQuest : Library : United States
		The United States is a nation of immigrants, and the entry of millions of those immigrants over time is the story told at this web site.
		The United States is a nation of immigrants.
		The website has a history section and gives the reader a glimpse of some of the many places that may be visited in the marvelous city.
	www.thinkquest.org /library/cat_show.html?cat_id=52 (6055 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter Seven: United States and Asia (11/11) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Newly established in the Philippines and firmly entrenched in Hawaii, the United States at the turn of the century, had high hopes of a vigorous trade with China.
		In September 1899 Secretary of State John Hay addressed a note to the powers concerned, resulting in the doctrine of the "Open Door" for all nations in China -- that is, equality of trading opportunities (including equal tariffs, harbor duties and railway rates) in the areas they controlled.
		In 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt responded to American labor's fears of competition by persuading the Japanese government temporarily to suspend emigration of laborers to the United States.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/1994/ch7_p11.htm (428 words)

	USMA Bicentennial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		West Point's role in our nation's history dates back to the Revolutionary War, when both sides realized the strategic importance of the commanding plateau on the west bank of the Hudson River.
		For the first half century, USMA graduates were largely responsible for the construction of the bulk of the nation's initial railway lines, bridges, harbors and roads.
		The United States Military Academy does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations.
	www.usma.edu /bicentennial/history (805 words)

	History of the United States Post Office
		When the Continental Congress named Benjamin Franklin the first Postmaster General in 1775, the United States was a weak confederation of colonies scattered along the eastern seaboard.
		On March 6, 1861, the day after Montgomery Blair's appointment by President Abraham Lincoln as Postmaster General of the United States, John Henninger Reagan, a former U. Congressman, was appointed Postmaster General of the Confederate States of America by Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States.
		The Post Office Department was transformed into the United States Postal Service, an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States.
	www.ceol.com /vvpo/history.html (9259 words)

	Our Documents - Pacific Railway Act (1862)
		Citation: Pacific Railway Act, July 1, 1862; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1996; Record Group 11; General Records of the United States Government; National Archives.
		In 1862 Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act, which designated the 32nd parallel as the initial transcontinental route and gave huge grants of lands for rights-of-way.
		The act was an effort to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean and to secure the use of that line to the government.
	www.ourdocuments.gov /doc.php?flash=true&doc=32 (333 words)

	Railroad Maps Collection
		The Railroad maps represent an important historical record, illustrating the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States.
		All of the items presented here are documented in RAILROAD MAPS of the United States compiled by Andrew M. Modelski in 1975.
		The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.
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	rexnord.com \| History
		Its history is typical of other Wisconsin manufacturing companies which sprang up in the '1880's and '1890's.
		Benjamin Harrison was President of the United States and George W. Peck, author of "Peck's Bad Boy", was governor of the state.
		As the United States entered World War II, much of the company's output was funneled into defense industries.
	www.rexnord.com /corporate_profile/history.asp (2477 words)

	History of Las Vegas, USA (United States of America)
		The development and enlargement of the city had brought about the increase of illegal gambling popularity, even though, back to 1910, Nevada was the first state that was strictly against outlaw gambling.
		The illegal gambling flourished until the Great Depression in 1931 when the state needed to raise taxes for the state general fund and as the lucrative of gambling industry was so much that the Nevada Legislature approved a legalized gambling bill.
		During the World War II while the country was preparing for the war, the government opened the 3-million-acer Las Vegas Aerial Gunnery School north of Las Vegas, originally intended to train B-29 gunners, it later became the training ground for the nation's ace fighter pilots.
	www.las-vegas-hotels-classify.com /history.htm (1256 words)

	US Historic Landmarks
		Remember the Russian Gulag camps, South African District Six, Liberation War in East Bengal, and Argentina’s military dictatorships.
		History of baseball with stories, profiles and features on players, teams and events, including the Negro and Federal Leagues.
		Includes history, local attractions, pictures of rooms, rate and reservation information.
	www.historic-landmarks.com (1276 words)

	TwHP Lesson Plans--U.S. History Standards Index
		United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans.
		Examine the history of this "city-within-a-city," a self-supporting African-American community that prospered from the late 19th century until the 1930s.
		Discover how the first arboretum in the United States became part of the burgeoning urban park movement in the second half of the 19th century.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/standards.htm (14563 words)

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