After the depression of the 1890's immigration jumped from a low of 3.5 million in that decade to a high of 9 million in the first decade of the new century
She became a famous person. She became the first woman preacher. She was sentenced out of the city.
1. more para of the interior geography of North America were mapped.
2. The Americans "realized" that from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacif Ocean, there was no water passage.
Generally speaking, it was the Constitutional principle of "popular sovereignty" that was the main focus of the North–South conflicts that led to the Civil War, since the main fear in the South was that the federal government was going to eliminate the institution of slavery all together.