On this day in 1803, Thomas Jefferson requests funding from Congress to finance the Lewis and Clark expedition.
The Gilded Age displayed considerable amounts of foul play ineconomic exploitation, political corruption, and unethical business practices. Many people who saw the unlawful ways of the rich and powerful took action to better the American society. Many reformers of the Gilded age were successful in bringing the change they desired; the reforms are still in effect to this day in our country, working to protect American citizens from unfair business practices that concentrated economic power, subjected workers to horrific labor <span>conditions, and outcasted the mentally ill. That probably doesn´t answer your question at all, but I tried.</span>
The advantage for US business in 1800 was that the government sold land at a low cost. The federal government had much land for sale at a rate of 1.25 Dollars per acre. Adjustments were made, and by 1854 the land was sold at an average price of 12.5 cents per acre where more than 2 million acres were sold. Lots of the land had been in the market for over 30 years before the reduction of prices by the federal government.
I don't know all of them but the battle of Lepanto took place in 1571.
