... Farmers traveled to the market town to trade farm produce which is grains, fruits, and vegetables. A general store sold imports which were goods brought to the colonies from other countries. The farmers carried their produce to the market and brought back imports in Conetoga wagons. A Conestoga wagon is a big covered wagon. The county seats were developed in the southern colonies. A county seat is a main town in each county. A county is a large part of the colony. Colonies with cash crops would take their crops to the county seat several times a year to sell them and buy imports. The cities were developed in the middle 1700's along the Atlantic coast wh ...

... wide-scale economic destruction to the South. The Confederate states lost about two-thirds of their wealth during the war. The loss of slave property throughout emancipation accounted for a lot of this, but the economic foundation of the South was also severely damaged in other ways. Railroads and industries in the South were in shambles. More than half of the farm machinery was destroyed and forty percent of all the livestock had been killed. In contrast, the Northern economy thrived during the war. During 1860 and 1870, the Northern wealth increased by about fifty percent, yet during the same period, Southern wealth decreased by almost sixty percent. Th ...

... reveal that their parents provide them with an unsatisfying home life. This rings true to the theme of missing or uncaring parents mentioned by Theresa Puchta. Although all of the characters are clothed to suit their particular part in the movie, they have been done so based on the latest fashions that certain clique adopted at that time. For example, it was “in style” for jocks to wear their school’s sport jackets, for geeks to wear the cardigans and khakis, bullies to wear leather jackets, weirdos to wear an assortment of clothing, and the popular girls to wear the fashion magazine trends. All of the characters are dressed in one of these ways. The soundtrac ...

... sure that Texans would be protected by the Mexican government from suits to collect debts that they had contracted in the United States before their immigration to Texas. All over the South were signs on bankrupt homes homes saying "Gone to Texas" were they did not have to pay off their debts (Downey 42). Austin and his followers were very hot tempered and ready to start up with any government that they disliked. They soon found a chance to stir up trouble under the changeable Mexican rule. Mexican authorities began to worry that too many Americans were coming into their country. About thirty thousand settlers came to Texas in a ten year span after Austin had es ...

... military disasters, growing inflation and taxation, along with the abandonment of traditional religion, opened the door for new trends in philosophy and religion that offered an escape from the realities of a harsh world.The Greek concept of a man-centered humanistic art was fading. Art shifted away from Hellenistic skills including foreshortening, atmostpheric perspective, and re-creating reality, toward a two dimensional symbolic approach with a more rigid style. "The contrast of light and shadow, the generation of natural forms, and the optical effects of classical art, gave way to newly abstracted forms with a concentration on sybolism played against the c ...

... the slave trade. Then, in 1782 Virginia passed a law that stated that owners must free their slaves. Consequently, by 1790, over ten thousand slaves had been set free. Ten years later, antislavery societies were forming from states ranging from Virginia to Massachusetts. Gradually, other northern states had followed, providing for the abolition of slavery. However, after the cotton gin was introduced to the economy, instead of eliminating the need for slavery, it actually had the opposite effect—the south now needed slavery more than ever. In addition, before Missouri joined the union, many northerners opposed the idea of Missouri becoming a state because it woul ...

... of realism and fantasy via the use of the following texts: Angela Carter's' The Bloody Chamber focusing mainly on "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Lady of the House of Love". Stephen King's The Shining, there will also be references to Stanley Kubrick's film version of The Shining and Wes Craven's modern gothic film The People Under the Stairs. The most obvious use of the fantasy/reality interface in gothic fiction is the fact that the fantasy almost always exists within the reality. On a basic level this means that the stereotypical gothic castle where the story ( a fantasy ) unfolds is always in a real place. Dracula is fantasy but takes place in the "real ...

... the development of the process whereby an enlarged photographic image is transferred to a silk screen that is then placed on a canvas and inked from the back. It was this technique that enabled him to produce the series of mass-media images- repetitive, yet with slight variations- that he began in 1962. These, included such items as Campbell's Soup cans, dollar bills, Coca-Cola bottles, and the faces of celebrities, can be taken as a comments on the banality, harshness, an ambiguity of American Culture. The Campbell's Soup is one of the most famous and recognized paintings of Warhol. It was done in 1962 and is oil on canvas. "This painting defines his p ...

... Because of the Great Depression, the cost of many items went up to an extreme amount if money, thus, even more people could not afford simple everyday things. Though there were many factors that helped cause the Great Depression, the main cause of it was the huge stock market crash that occurred in 1929. Many people lost a lot of money when the market crashed. Herbert Clark Hoover was president at that time and many people blamed him, and were very upset about his decisions involving the economy. They dealt with their anger by not reelecting Hoover, but instead, electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president the next time around. He was the one who he ...

... to the plan, Howe would direct General Henry Clinton to move northward along the Hudson River and link up with Burgoyne in Albany. The goal of this plan was to isolate and destroy the Continental forces of New England. Initially, the British plan appeared to be working. Burgoyne's army continually pushed back the Americans southward along the Hudson River with only minor casualties. In an attempt to slow the British advances, the American General Philip Schuyler detached 1000 men under the command of Major General Benedict Arnold. This force moved west to thwart St. Leger's eastward advance along the Mohawk River. Arnold returned with his detachment after r ...