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Womans Rights

 

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal” is not just a line from Hamilton it was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton who wrote the Declaration of sentiments in 1848 in Seneca Falls NY at the first Woman's rights convention. Where 300 people attended including 40 men. The meeting lasted two days on July 19th and 20th in the Wesleyan Chapel.  Not only were women's rights discussed but human rights. Three years after in Seneca falls there was an antislavery meeting where she met Susan B Anthony the two had a lifelong friendship and traveled the country. The two started a newspaper called The Revolution. the paper was printed from January 1868 to February 1872 it mostly covered women’s rights, prohibiting discrimination against woman’s voting and, woman’s suffrage. Sadly of the 68 women that signed the Declaration of sentiments in Seneca falls only one woman would live to see the 19th amendment be added to the declaration of independence in 1920 at the age of 91 where she was able to vote

Susan B Anthony February 15th, 1820 to march 13th, 1906 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton November 12th, 1815 to October 26th, 1902

Fredrick Douglass February 1818 to February 20th, 1895

Fredrick Douglass was a big advocate in human rights born a slave in Maryland until he escaped to New York City in 1838. in 1847 when he moves to Rochester where he started a weekly abolitionist newspaper a year later Fredrick was one of 32 men to sign the declaration of sentient were he met Susan b, Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady

The Fennimore Cooper

 

                                        

William Cooper December 2nd 1754 - December 22nd 1809

William Cooper was a husband to Elizabeth Fenimore and married on  December 12th  1774. He was a  merchant, land developer and the founder of Cooperstown NY. Later in life he was a politician and was appointed county judge then was in the US congress for Otsego county.

 

James Fenimore Cooper September 15th 1789 - September 14th 1851 

Born in Burlington, New Jersey the eleventh of twelve children at one year old his family moved to the town his father founded. James was enrolled at Yale but was kicked out when he blew up another student's door and locked a donkey in a library. When William died James and his four brothers inherited large sums of money and land. On January 1st 1811 he married Susan de Lancy. They had seven children 

Susan Fenimore Cooper daughter of James and Susan Fenimore Cooper Born on April 17th in 1813 in Scarsdale, New York. Susan was a founder of the thanksgiving hospital and an orphanage both on Cooperstown. She was also one of the first woman to write about natural history she also wrote about women's suffrage 

Otsego Hall built between 1793 and 1799 as the Coopers manor home located on the west side of Otsego lake. As of march 2017 the official name is the Fenimore Art Museum

The farmers Museum has been a working farm since 1830 originally owned by James Fennimore Cooper. The museum has 23,000 items and 24 buildings to show what life was like in the 19th century 

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Delta lake Rome NY

Lake Erie

Lake Erie lies with in Ontario Canada and the U.S states of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan. As  the fourth largest finger lake and eleventh globally its 9,940 square miles of shoreline is 871 miles long and holds 127.8 trillion gallons of water  the outflow is the Niagara river. There were a number of lakes formed with different shores and depth the most recent before the current lake is  Lake Warren. Lake Warren was from 12,000 and 13,000 years ago the shore was 8miles inland from the current lakes shore line

The Economic growth the Erie canal made on the US

The Erie canal was good for the economic growth of our young country providing many jobs and helped grow towns along the canal. The canal paid for itself in the first year it was open with tolls alone. Along with freight and commercial boats the canal saw a number of passenger boats. In 1825 there were 40,000 that enjoyed the beauty of the canal.The Erie canal helped to grow New York City to a major city and main port it is today. The population of New York State quadrupled between 1820 and 1850 and wall street took off. The Erie canal was a big part of the underground railroad.

Harriet Tubman moved to New York after freeing her self in Maryland in March of 1913. Harriet made 13 trips freeing over 70 people using the Erie canal tow paths 

The Erie canal

The Erie Canal runs 363 miles from Lake Erie in the West to Albany in the East. The Erie canal was built by Governor DeWitt Clinton and engineered by Benjamin Wright construction  started in Rome N.Y from July 1817 and opened in October 1825 with an elevation change of 565 ft and has 34 locks with a depth of 4ft and a width of 40ft for reference the Panama canal is only 51  miles long 85ft above sea level and 110 feet wide The cost of building the canal in $7143,00 {that's $14,664,579 in today's money}The first boat on the canal was The Seneca Chief it was an astonishing 10day trip with governor DeWitt on board from Buffalo to Albany vs the 15 to 45 days the shorter trips also made it more cost effective by wagon for a ton of cargo it cost $125 {$2,566.25 into days money} with the canal it was $6 a ton {that's $123.18 in today's money} to hall such big loads they would you a team of houses or oxen to tow the boats on the path on the sides of-the canal

London bridge

We all know the children song london bridge is falling down but how much do we really know about it. The first london bridge was first built in 43 AD by the Romans over the River Thames. The bridge had to be rebuilt in 1176 after the Vikings attacked it . The first stone bridge was built in 1176. The next bridge was built in June 1825 out of granite. In 1962 the london bridge started falling down after a 130 yrs and surviving the ww2  air strikes and the weight of modern cars the bridge started sinking 1inch every 8yr not being able to fix it the English government decided to try to sell it to the United States. In 1968 negotiations started with a man named Robert McCulloch and he ended up paying $2.46million. The Bridge was disassembled and moved brick by brick by cargo ships to Long Beach California then trucked to Lake Havasu City in Arizona. It took 3 years to rebuild the bridge and reinforced with  cement and rebar to support modern cars.