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This set of mainly 19th-century maps from books is a fine representation of publishing activity and reader interests at the time. The publishing industry had grown and diversified to what we recognize today, and popular topics included: travel; geography textbooks and school atlases; histories; and contemporary exploration and military accounts. The maps are familiar, but eminently of their time.
I guess there should be options to choose. Anyway, I know that the answer is: Christopher Columbus planned to find a more direct route to Asia by <span>sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean</span>. He convinced Spanish government to finance a plan to find a rout to Asia through the west across Atlantic. He reached the Caribbean but he thought that he reached West Indies island. This is how European colonization of America began.
This reference came from a comedian named Will Rogers, he used it do describe President Herbert Hoovers stimulus efforts during the Great Depression.
They were journalists who were very important during the progressive era. They often exposed big businesses for unsafe/unsanitary working conditions or problems facing america
