ie.. the cotton gin, Colt revolver, combustion engines, the great depression, disease... Needs to be something that greatly affected history.!?!?!?!?!?
Thx for responses
2006-11-15 03:32:24 · 9 answers · asked by poo_eating_dino 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The railroad, the telegraph, the telephone, the television, the airplane.....
Every invention that improved communication or transportation has had a great effect on the US. You can't have democracy without fast communication, education, and transportation.
Have you ever wondered why ALL the repressive governments of the world restrict education, communication, and transportation? That's why.
2006-11-15 05:13:50 · answer #1 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The country celebrates its founding date as July 4, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress representing thirteen British colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence that rejected British authority in favor of self-determination.
The structure of the government was profoundly changed in 1789, when states replaced Articles of Confederation with the U S Constitution. This is when each of the 50 states adopted the Constitution regarded as the time that states "entered the Union" to become the United States.
2006-11-15 12:05:05 · answer #2 · answered by debra m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DDT was developed as the first of the modern insecticides early in World War II. It was initially used with great effect to combat mosquitoes spreading malaria, typhus, and other insect-borne human diseases among both military and civilian populations, and as an agricultural insecticide. The Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller of Geigy Pharmaceutical in Switzerland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods."
In 1962, American biologist Rachel Carson published the book Silent Spring, which alleged that DDT caused cancer and harmed bird reproduction by thinning egg shells.[1] The book resulted in a large public outcry which eventually led to the insecticide being banned for agricultural use in the USA, and was one of the signature events in the birth of the environmental movement. DDT was subsequently banned for agricultural use in many countries in the 1970s; there is still a great controversy regarding the impact of this decision on the use of DDT to fight disease vectors.
2006-11-15 11:52:14 · answer #3 · answered by dezera f 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The computer. The automobile. The A-bomb. Free education for the middle and working classes. I don't really understand what the Colt revolver would have historically affected except the ability to kill more people faster (or more animals with less skill).
2006-11-15 11:52:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The telegraph wire.
Trans-continental Railroad.
Automobiles
Television
Space Age
Computers.
This is a list of things I feel made a difference on the effect of History other than wars. World War ll made a great difference and so did probation and the depression.
2006-11-15 11:48:11 · answer #5 · answered by DeeJay 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never has been disputed the War of Northern Aggression the second most written about subject in the world (Jesus being first). God Bless You and The Southern People.
2006-11-15 11:49:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's gotta be the train! It settled the west.
Look up Manifest Destiny on wikipedia for support material.
2006-11-15 11:38:49 · answer #7 · answered by wrathofkublakhan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say the California gold rush. helped to settle the west,
2006-11-15 11:36:16 · answer #8 · answered by phoneticorb1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the creation of plastic
2006-11-15 11:39:38 · answer #9 · answered by Ro b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋