By 1600 England had two clusters of colonies.
A precedent is a previously made court decision that is used as a guideline for future cases. When an unfamiliar problem comes to court, the resulting decision may become a precedent for a similar future case.
In the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the United States "<span>C. paid $15 million for lands the Mexican Cession," although this cost was also to repay for suits against land encroachments. </span>
Granville Woods improved the telegraph in many ways.
He allowed them to transmit speech, added them onto trains, and made it easier to operate and carry them around.
Industrialization required funding and political support to transport items across the country. This required the federal government to get more involved in the economy than they had prior.
Following the War of 1812, the US began to realize they needed to industrialize so they did not have to rely on Great Britain for manufactured goods. To do this a banking industry and transportation system across state lines needed to be established. Being this required the cooperation of many states, it demanded the Federal government become more active in the economy. They passed laws to create a National Bank, funded canals and roads, and assisted in passing tariffs to promote American goods.
