1. EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD WHAT UNIFIED AMERICANS (1800-1830)? US History & Government

3. World’s Largest Steam Boat, the American Queen , 1995 New Orleans to Louisville – One week (previously three months) 1000 accidents 1811-1850 (30% of total number of boats 57% snags; 21% explosion; 17% fire…

4. Old Road

6. Erie Canal – 363 Miles long; 4 feet deep Buffalo to New York – 10 Days

7. "Gen. J. C. Robinson" classic 4-4-0 American-type locomotive of the U.S. Military

10. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTH (1800-1860)

18. New York City 1860

19. THE FIVE POINTS, NEW YORK CITY "This is the place: these narrow ways diverging to the right and left, and reeking every where with dirt and filth….. Debauchery has made the very houses prematurely old. See how the rotten beams are tumbling down, and how the patched and broken windows seem to scowl dimly, like eyes that have been hurt in drunken frays. Many of these pigs live here. Do they ever wonder why their masters walk upright in lieu of going on all-fours? and why they talk instead of grunting?" - Charles Dickens “ [The population of the Five Points are]...not paupers and criminals, but the Republic's most needed asset, the wealth of stout poor men [and we will add women] who will work" - Walt Whitman

20. Five Points, New York City

21. Irish Tenement and Saloon Yellow ware spittoon Stoneware beer bottles clay pipes Artifacts found at an archeological dig In the Five Points neighborhood of New York City

23. A starving Irish family from Carraroe, County Galway

24. Cartoon depiction of an Irish immigrant

25. Cartoon depiction of a German immigrant