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Imagration
immigrants went to the US because of over population,political,and religious persecution. The journey was very rough immigrants would come by steam boat and were not aloud on the upper deck and had to sleep in bunks for weeks disease and lice spread very quickly. Even when you got to the US there wasn't a guarantees you would even be accepted you had pass a exam to prove you could work and haven't committed any felonies. there was an estimated 17 million people let in to Ellis island -
A Tough Migration
In the US there is a gold rush in California and the homestead act was put into place witch aloud people to move west and get a free 160 acres to be used for farm land. Many people wanted to take this opportunity but the land was dry and full of natural disasters like tornadoes this caused many people to give up and return south. -
U.S Starts to Annex Country's
The united States annex's Hawaii. The two main reasons this happened was because of the overthrowing if Hawaii's queen and the booming sugar trade between the U.S and Hawaii. -
The First Plane was Made
Wilbur and Orville Wright constructed the very first airplane in a bicycle shop. On December 17th 1903, the flew it four times about miles of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. -
Panama Canal
The canal is almost 50 miles long and took 60,00 pounds of dynamite to construct the canal. It took a total of 10 years to complete, which then allowed ships to travel between the two oceans more safety and half the time.
