After two decades of planning, the largest dam removal in U.S. history began on September 17, 2011. Six months later the Elwha Dam was gone, followed by the Glines Canyon Dam in 2014. Today, the Elwha River once again flows freely from its headwaters in the Olympic Mountains to the…
In real life, the machine, known as the bombe, was built collaboratively, based on a device already in use by Polish mathematicians working to decode Enigma. And the bombe was not a computer. It could do only one thing, which was grind through possible settings of the German’s encryption machines.…
When Truman finally left office in 1953, his Fair Deal was but a mixed success. In July 1948 he banned racial discrimination in federal government hiring practices and ordered an end to segregation in the military. The minimum wage had risen, and social security programs had expanded. Though Congress approved…
Tsar Nicholas II’s reaction to the peaceful protest the workers staged, his inability to meet the demands of his people, and the rising prices and lowering conditions that came with World War I all led to the inevitable- a revolution. What caused the fall of rule of Tsar? The inadequate…
The financial market first started over 500 years ago with merchants trading debts. The financial markets are a relatively new technological development created in the last 50 years. How does the financial market impact the economy quizlet? How do Financial Markets affect the economy? If the market is well functioning…
In the 1850s, the heart of Broadway Theater was located in Union Square and did not arrive to Times Square until the early 1900s. Theater owners were seeking out less expensive real estate prices and that is what led them to midtown at that time. What was the first theater…
Bakelite: The World’s First Synthetic Plastic. Is the first man made synthetic fibre? Explanation: Nylon was the first ’fully synthetic’ fibre that was developed in the 1930s by an American researcher, Wallace Carothers at Du Pont, a chemical firm. What is the first man made fiber? Which is the first…
The First Bank of the United States is considered a success by economic historians. Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatian commented that the Bank was “wisely and skillfully managed” (Hixson, 114). The Bank carried a remarkable amount of liquidity. Hamilton’s debt program was a remarkable success. By demonstrating Americans’ willingness to repay…
The monarchy was no longer viewed as divinely ordained. When the king sought to increase the tax burden on the poor and expand it to classes that had previously been exempt, revolution became all but inevitable. Those who were socially beneath them had very few rights, and most were also…
During the Gilded Age, more and more farmers lost their land and slipped down the agricultural ladder into tenant farming, sharecropping, and the crop-lien system. How did farmers respond to the Gilded Age? Farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age from 1865-1900 by forming organizations that…