In 1886 druggist John Pemberton invented a nerve tonic called Pemberton’s French Wine Coca. He removed the wine, added caffeine and cola and poof! – Coca-Cola was born. He whipped it up in a 30 gallon kettle in his back yard and sold it as headache medicine. The coca leaves probably helped a bit. In ...
Candidates: Republican Party: William McKinley (Ohio) and Theodore Roosevelt (New York) Democratic Party: William Jennings Bryan (Nebraska) and Adlai Stevenson (Illinois) Election Results: McKinley and Roosevelt: 7.21 million popular votes, 292 electoral votes. Bryan and Stevenson: 6.35 million popular votes, 155 electoral votes. Summary: William McKinley’s renomination in 1900 was without little doubt, considering the ...
Imperialism is the practice of extending the power of a nation by direct territorial acquisition of colonial empires. The desire for power and prestige played a role in American imperialism. But it was the economy that led the United States to imperialism. In the late 1800s the United States became the world’s leading industrial producer. ...
Fort Gaines was originally built as an addition of our country’s security but the original fort had many problems. For one, Fort Gaines was built too close to the Mobile bay and at high tide, water would enter the structure. Another problem arose over land rights but the military did finally gain rights and the ...
Florida’s historic past is the oldest in the nation. While the state was sparsely settled for many years until the beginning of the last century, it was the first area ever to be settled in the United States by Europeans. Spanish, British, Colonial, Spanish-American War and Civil War defenses are dotted all over the many ...
