HIUS 188 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-6: List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Hydroelectricity, Paternalism
23 Jan 2018
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Hius 188 textbook notes killing for coal (chs 1-6) It started to hail, so they had to stop: federal troops were called in the end, and the strikers surrendered, before 1880s, coalfields hired experienced workers from overseas, but afterwards started to hire inexperienced immigrants. West: during expedition, also looked for potential coal mines and found a few. Coalification: plant matter eaten by bacteria, decomposed further, and solidified and compressed into coal. A stagnant frontier: hard to travel across, since you had to travel on foot due to lack of waterways, due to lack of water, couldn"t use waterpower. Farming hard and expensive since you have to rely on irrigation. Food and supplies had to be imported, and people feared that the goods would be attacked by. Native tribes, so there was a lot of hostility toward the native people: over-foresting led to wood shortages and high princes for wood, colorado suffering energy crisis at the time of the coal discovery.
