Essays Tagged: "Western Pennsylvania"
The Economics of Clean Air
air is that the emission allotments of certain states are more lenient than others. For example, in Western Pennsylvania, there are strict regulations on emission output levels, while 35 miles west in ... move or produce in PA and would rather just do so in Ohio. The results have been disastrous for the Western Penn. economy. This system with seemingly limitless updates and new precautions are cutting ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Alexander Hamilton's Financial Plan
he tax related to a variety of items. As a result of the tax on whiskey, a group of poor farmers in Western Pennsylvania rebelled, resulting in the Whiskey Rebellion. Answer B is incorrect because the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Interesting facts and history on the Mississippi River.
sures 2,550 miles. The upper Mississippi River is 1,401 miles long. The drainage basin extends from western Pennsylvania to Idaho, embraces two fifths of the continental United States, not including A ... uth Pass, and South West Pass.River TrafficFrom the earliest days until railroads were built in the western United States, the Mississippi and its branches carried most of the traffic through the vast ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
The Progressive Movement
ians and urban businessmen. Another established journalist was Ida Tarbell. Tarbell had grown up in western Pennsylvania, close to the first oil well in the United States. Tarbell released several boo ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Joe Montana
ok several times. Joe Montana was born June 11, 1956 in New Eagle. He moved to Monogahela in Western Pennsylvania and was raised there. As a kid played basketball with the Monogahela peanut lea ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Ethics and the Environment Case Study: Fueling the World
ls & Fossil Fuels, n.d.). Originally, oil was used as ointment and medicine but not as fuel. In Western Pennsylvania oil flowed from natural springs and by 1859 in the same region oil wells were d ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Captain of Industry or Robber Baron
e means by which he attained it.Sensing the commercial potential of the expanding oil production in western Pennsylvania in the early 1860s, he built his first oil refinery, near Cleveland, in 1863. W ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Who Were the Robber Barons? what was their impact on the economy today? who are some modern robber barons? What is a robber baron who are the three robber barons listed?
grain, meats, and other goods. Sensing the commercial potential of the expanding oil production in western Pennsylvania in the early 1860s, he built his first oil refinery, near Cleveland, in 1863. J ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History