1. Important Places
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2. Chisholm Trail
The Chisholm Trail was one of the best-known routes used by cattle ranchers after the Civil War.
Texas cowboys would drive their cattle along the trail until they reached a railroad stop in Abilene, Kansas.
It could take up to two months to herd the cattle along this route.
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7. Chisholm Trail
In Abilene, the cattle were put on railroad cars and shipped to meatpacking centers in the eastern US.
The Chisholm trail was essential to the American economy during this time period.
Supply and Demand
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9. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh is a city in western Pennsylvania
It is located where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers come together to form the Ohio River.
In the mid-1800s, Pittsburgh became the center of steel production in the US.
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12. Pittsburgh’s rivers provided key water routes for transporting industrial resources & goods.
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14. Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh was near huge deposits of iron ore (used to make steel) and its location on three rivers helped it transport finished steel all over the country.
By the 1900s, Pittsburgh manufactured half of the nation’s steel and was one of the world’s largest steel manufacturing centers.
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15. Pittsburgh Steel Mill
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16. Pittsburgh
In the 1970s, the American steel industry collapsed and the once-booming industrial city fell on hard times.
Today, Pittsburgh is rebounding by becoming a hub for technology industries.
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19. Kitty Hawk Kitty Hawk is a town on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
The Outer Banks are barrier islands along NC’s coast.
This site on hilly sand dunes is where the Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first powered airplane flight in 1903.
The ocean wind helped the Wright Brothers get the machine off the ground.
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25. Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base in Hawaii.
It is located west of Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japanese planes in a surprise attack on December 7th, 1941.
Click to see bombing of Pearl Harbor
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30. Pearl Harbor
The attack damaged the United States’ Pacific Fleet, but it did not destroy it.
In response to the Pearl Harbor bombings, the United States declared war on Japan and entered World War II.
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34. Montgomery Montgomery is the capital of Alabama.
It was also chosen as the first capital of the Confederate States of America in 1861, until the capital was moved to Richmond, Virginia.
Montgomery gained national attention during the Civil Rights movement.
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37. Montgomery
Rosa Parks ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott when she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.
Afterwards, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a boycott against Montgomery’s public transportation system for over a year.
The Supreme Court eventually outlawed segregation on public transportation throughout the city.
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43. Chicago Chicago is the capital of Illinois.
It was originally founded by the French in the late 1600s, but didn’t really start to grow until America industrialized in the mid-1800s.
Chicago’s location on the Great Lakes has made it perfect for the shipping industry.
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46. Chicago
In the 1800s, railroad companies built railroads throughout the city in all directions to move goods throughout the Midwest.
The transportation networks attracted manufacturing, meat-packing, and steel-making industries to Chicago.
From Chicago, goods could easily and efficiently be shipped across the US and the world.
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50. Chicago
Chicago’s booming industries were hit badly by the economic recession of the 1970s.
Some industries, like banking and transportation, were able to pull through, and today Chicago is a hub for healthcare companies and hospitals.
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