Interest was so great that steamship lines diverted vessels from other routes to the Caribbean. Advertisement for the Great White Fleet, United Fruit Co. Steam-ship Service, from Country Life in America, December 1914 The Tourist’s Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala Reached by Beautiful Sea Trips from New Orleans, issued by the Passenger Department of the Illinois Central Railroad, 1912-13 At Ancon, a town at the Pacific end of the Canal Zone, the Isthmian Canal Commission created a tourist station with a lecture room, relief maps, and models of the locks. Tourists could also visit the work site by taking a special train whose open sightseeing cars had been converted from Panama Railroad flatcars (see postcard at left). The musicians of Tin Pan Alley played upon public interest in the canal. Cover artwork was often more memorable than the music and lyrics inside.
Should the owners of the Titanic have paid compensation to all passengers/ or their families? RMS Titanic run by the Olympic Class Ocean Liner, Construction began on 16th December 1908 and finished soon after 31st March 1909. The ship was the industrial marvels of their age and Titanic was said to be the biggest, fastest and most luxurious ship yet during the time. The Ship was ready to be set from Southampton to New York in search for a better life in the United States. How Come a Magnificent Ship was able to sink?
In the beginning of the early 1900’s transatlantic passenger service had been a lucrative business and shipping companies were competing against each other to see who would build the biggest and fastest ship. Two such shipping rivals were Cunnard and White Star. By 1912, the White Star, a British shipping company, exceeded everyone’s expectations with their new ocean liner, the RMS Titanic. It was not
The railways, particularly the Trans-Siberian railway, also gave Eastern Russia a link to Europe and Western Russia a link to the Pacific Ocean, which made it easier to export Russian goods. Therefore the Russian governments’ investment in railways was extremely successful in promoting economic growth. The Russian government was also successful in improving Russia’s heavy industry through the introduction of tariffs on imports. This clearly helped Russian heavy industry to expand as steel production increase eightfold from 1880 to 1905 and petroleum production increased over 2500% during the same time period. These tariffs, introduced by Vyshnedgradsky and continued by Witte, both increased revenue for the government and made
To increase population, Galveston solicited immigration; and it became the focus of an immigration plan called the Galveston Movement, which between 1907 and 1914 diverted an estimated 10,000 Jewish immigrants from the cities of the Northeastern United States. In 1905 William Lewis Moody Jr. founded the American National Insurance Company. Two years later he established the City National Bank, which is now the Moody National Bank. Houston prospered after the storm of 1900 and is now the center of population and economic growth in
The canal was also of economic significance as historian Simon Smith reminds us that ‘80% of the Suez traffic was British, and13% of Britain’s trade passed through the canal’ , this is due to most of Britain’s trade with India passing through the Suez. This dual economic and strategic importance of the Suez shows a strong symbiotic relationship. Britain’s taking of colonies for joint strategic and economic motives can be traced all over the continent. Another example of this is the Island of Zanzibar, of the east coast of Africa. Zanzibar was a strategic asset to Britain as it allowed it to monitor German presence around the Indian Ocean, in case Germany threatened India and Britain’s colonies in East Africa, As well
The New World Old World Anthony Nnana ENG/491 March 5, 2012 Michael Briggs, PhD Introduction In the early years of the 1400s Europe had started developing and expanding I economic activities. By 1492, explorations to expand and find new frontiers had begun. In 1492, Christopher Columbus along with dozens of Europeans sailed across the Atlantic ocean to the new World. The voyagers were amazed at what they found: the people and their culture, the land and its beauty. The stories of Colon, one of the Indians that Columbus took back to Spain showed that the discoveries were mutual rather than one sided.
Britain Becomes a Global Power * Location placed England in a position to control trade * England offered a climate favorable to business and commerce and put fewer restrictions on trade then some of its neighbors * Britain was generally on the winning side in European conflicts * The British monopolized the slave trade in Spanish America, which brought enormous wealth to British merchants * England’s territory expanded closer to home In 1760, George III began a 60-year reign- born in England- eager to recover the powers the crown had lost; reassert royal power; wanted to end Whig domination; with the help of Parliament and his “Parliament friends” he began to assert his leadership The Colonies in the Mid-1700s A
This gave the early Christian civilization of Germany time to acquire sufficient strength to roll back the returning tide of Mohammedan invasion when it broke upon Europe in the fifteenth century. Social Effects of the Crusades The Social effects of the Crusades upon the social life of the Western nations were marked and important. The Crusades afforded an opportunity for romantic adventure. The Crusades were therefore one of the principal fostering influences of Chivalry. Contact with the culture of the East provided a general refining influence.
The Erie Canal was first proposed in 1808 and was under construction from 1817 to 1832 and officially opened on October 26, 1825. It is a man made waterway in New York that runs from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo at Lake Erie. The Erie Canal was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard of New York City and the western interior of the Great lakes of the United States that did not require Portage. The Erie Canal proved to be the key that unlocked an enormous series of social and economic changes in the young nation. The Canal spurred the first great westward movement of American settlers, gave access to the rich land and resources west of the Appalachians and made New York the preeminent commercial city in the United