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How did the abolitionists influence the Underground Railroad? Abolitionists: The abolitionists were a group of people who believed that slavery should be abolished. They thought that all human beings should have the same rights, regardless of race, gender, or nationality. Abolitionism became popular...
JRs Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Shikoku; Smith, "Japanese Shinkansen," p. 229. 30 See the "Railroads and Subways" section (Chapter 4) of the Library of Congress's Japan country study at http://memory.loc.gov/ frd/cs/jptoc.html. 31 See Christopher P. Hood, "Shinkansen's Local Impact," ...
Ellis Island (NY) was the entry point for many European immigrants a. Describe Ellis Island, the change in immigrants’ origins to southern and eastern Europe and the impact of this change on urban America. To deal with the large # of people arriving in the country, the federal government ...
A little over a century ago, it took the wealth of "robber barons" like John D. Rockefeller (oil industry), Andrew Carnegie (steel industry), or Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads) to build factories and launch industries. Just a handful of folks could afford to build and deploy the tools...
By the time the bullet train was built, Abel explained, the airline industry was booming and Japan was even beginning to develop a space program. Railroads, even at that time, were seen as an old, declining form of infrastructure. Still, the "dream super-express" enchanted the public. ...
In March 2012,President Barack Obamaushered inIrish AmericanHeritage Month by discussing the “indomitable spirit” of the Irish. He referred to the Irish as a group “whose strength helped build countless miles of canals and railroads; whose brogues echoed in mills, police stations, and fire hal...
How did the building of the railroads affect people's ability to travel? How were feudalism and the manorial system related? How did the Navigation Acts affect the colonial economy? How did the merchant class influence society during the Italian Renaissance? How did the merchant class in Italy ...
How did the Industrial Revolution affect communication? How did inventions from the Industrial Revolution impact society? How were goods produced before the Industrial Revolution? How did the Industrial Revolution transform manufacturing? How did the development of railroads advance the Industrial Revolution...
Little wonder then that many other countries have followed Japan’s example and built new high-speed railroads over the last four decades. Perhaps the best-known of these is France, which has been operating its Train à Grand Vitesse (TGV) between Paris and Lyon since 1981. The first Shi...