The Grant Depression led Americans to believe that President Herbert Hoover was to blame. Hoover entered office, right as the stock markets crashed, and he could not do anything to prevent that. America learned that they could persevere through thick and thin as a country. That not even a money drought can stop the United States of America.
Portugal, the western-most European country, was one of the primary players in the European Age of Discovery and Exploration. Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, Portugal took the principal role during most of the fifteenth century in searching for a route to Asia by sailing south around Africa.
It emphasized that the government was limited and the states had power as well as the federal government. Also it helped micromanage people
The steamboat not only moved people, but also goods. With the high demand in goods and fuel for these boats; along came thousands of jobs in the coal mines and in the factories. The steamboat also led to thousands of new settlement across America's rivers, including the huge boom of Indiana's Ohio River Cities.