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Mianna Lucas
Top 10 Most Exciting Topics
1832 Samuel F.S. Morse designs improved electromagnetic telegraph. This holds a place in the top ten because this laid the foundation for the phone.
1849 California gold rush. This was exciting to learn about how there was a ton of gold in California at one point. This makes top ten because it also showed how California got its start.
1803 Louisiana Purchase. This makes the top ten because this allowed the United State to get a large part of its territory. This was an exciting topic to me because it showed how they only paid 15 million for all that land.
1804-1806 Lewis and Clarke expeditions. This also allowed the United State to acquirer some territory as well. That’s why to me this is also in the top ten to me anything that allows you to gain something must exciting.
1789-1797 George Washington was the United States first president. This is why he made the top ten because he set the bar for the rest of the president to jump. For him I would have to say that it had to be exciting.
1793 Eli Whitney invention of the cotton gin that help the southern states with production of more cotton faster. This makes top ten because this took some of the work off of the slaves. This had to exciting for the people in farming because they would make more money faster.
1800 Volta events electric battery. This makes top ten because this made a lot of things easy for us today. It’s always exciting for me to find out how things were invented.
1811 First steamboat to sail down Mississippi reaches New Orleans. This makes top ten because this was a get way to move people and supplies more up and the rivers and canal. This was an exciting topic because to me learning about this and it wasn’t boring.
1803 Dalton devise table of elements. This makes top ten because without this science wouldn’t make sense at all. This was an exciting topic because once again without sense wouldn’t make any sense.
1839 Daguerre invents first form of photography. This had to make top ten because this was the reason why we have digital cameras now. This topic is exciting this truly was the founding factor the future.

Top 10 Most Painful Topics

1. 1811 Native Americans defeated in Battle of Tippecanoe in Indian Territory. This makes top ten because to me the Native Americans were the one who had this land before anyone else. This to me is painful for Native Americans to lose something they had.
2. 1830 Indian Removal Act. This made top ten once again because this also made the Indian leave the land they have own and knew all there life. This was painful because they felt like people just came over to the land and started to take over.
3. 1838 Cherokee “Trail of Tears”. This made top ten because this when the European people really started to take all of the land and made the Native people run for their lives. This was painful to Native people because during the Trail many of them lose their lives, land and family. The only way they could stay is if they gave up all their values
4. 1850 Fugitive Slave Act .This made top ten because this was law that made runaway slaves have to return back if they were caught. This was painful for the slaves because most likely when they were brought back they would get beat or either killed.
5. 1819 Treaty with Spain set boundaries. This made top ten because this was painful for both U.S and Spain because this treaty made things worst between the two.
6. 1812 War of 1812.This made top ten because war is always painful. No matter who won people still have to fight and people get killed and things get messed that can’t get replaced.
7. 1818 Treaty with Britain set 49th parallel. This made top ten because evens through the U.S. and Britain sign a treaty. I know this had to painful for them to have to share part of some land with each other.
8. 1820 Federal government offers land at $1.25 an acre. This made top ten because they government didn’t want to sell the land for that cheap but they money for a war. I would say that it had to be painful for the government to sell this land for so little.
9. 1817-1818 first Seminole war. Once again I feel like anytime you have to go to war it is painful. So this made top ten because of that and also having to fund a war and find people to fight can also be pretty painful.
10. 1845-1847 Mexican War. This made top ten because this war was painful for Mexico because not only did they lose the war but they also lost there land.