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    The modern French highway system was completed during this period. The first turnpike in America, connecting Philadelphia to Lancaster, was built between 1792 and 1794. The first road roller was built and tested in France on the eve of the French Revolution , in 1787, but the machine did not come into practical use until a generation later, and ...
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    BRITAIN, ARCHITECTURE IN. BRITAIN, ARCHITECTURE IN. The history of architecture in England between 1500 and 1800 can be seen as a series of stages defined by the interests of patrons and, within the forms of the buildings themselves, by the variety of responses possible to the forms of Renaissance architecture in continental Europe.In such a history, England always had problems in its cultural ...
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    1800-1860: Business and the Economy: Overview. Westward Migration. Following the American Revolution, Americans swarmed to the West. Kentucky and Tennessee provided the beachhead for the vanguard of land-hungry settlers. After the War of 1812 subsequent waves of pioneers flowed into the Ohio River valley, the Great Lake states, the Gulf Plain, and the Mississippi River valley.
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    The Santee Canal in South Carolina is completed; it is the country ' s first significant canal. 4 Apr. Congress passes the first federal bankruptcy law. It is repealed on 19 December 1803. 10 May Congress revises the national land policy. No longer needing to acquire public lands in 640-acre blocks, purchasers can now buy public land in 320 ...
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    The most spectacular result of dome construction was the Pantheon in Rome, a temple whose dome, complete with a 25-foot-wide (7.6-m) oculus, was 142 feet (43 m) in both diameter and height, the largest dome in the West until St. Peter's was built in Rome in the sixteenth century. ... Rome required buildings and structures to serve its military ...
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    1815-1850: Business and the Economy: Overview. Transportation Revolution. In an 1817 congressional address calling for federal support for federal support for a national system of roads and canals, South Carolina ' s John C. Calhoun noted the potential advantages to American business of such a system of internal improvements: " An article, to command a price, must not only be useful but ...
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    School Buildings and Architecture. ... Two types of structure were completed. Rural schools, with only one or two classrooms, showed modest and economic architecture, while urban schools, often vast and majestic, were criticized for being "school palaces." The urban schools were typically two or three floors high.
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    1800-1860: Lifestyles, Social Trends, Fashion, Sports & Recreation: Overview The Old West. For white Americans in the early nineteenth century the West represented many things. For some it offered adventure or a chance to get rich quick; for others, the opportunity to own land. The stock figures of the Old West remain in American memory: the mountain man, the hardy pioneer, the immigrant on ...
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    Vitruvius (ca. 80 b.c. - ca. 25 b.c.). Roman architect, engineer, and author whose treatise On Architecture — written as a guidebook for Roman builders — was widely influential during the Renaissance.Vitruvius was born in the town of Formiae as Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. He may have served in the Roman army of Julius Caesar, working to design fortifications and siege engines in Spain and ...
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    The Erie Canal completed, connecting Western farmers and the Great Lakes to markets in New York. 1826. 24 Jan. Creek Indians sign the Treaty of Washington, ceding territory to the federal government and gaining another year to remain on their lands. 4 July Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of ...
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