ICES adjunct scientist Mike Conlon appointed ICES North site director. ICES North is in development in Sudbury at Health Sciences North Research Institute and will be launched in late 2017.
Although Illinois could not boast having the first steam-powered railroad in the United States or the Midwest (Maryland in 1828 and Ohio in 1836 claimed those honors), residents could brag of being the home state for some of the earliest American carriers.
Overview. Using a variety of maps, students assess the need for a transcontinental railroad in the 1860's. They then analyze two founding documents for the settlement of the West, the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act both passed by Congress in 1862. understand the need for a Transcontinental Railroad, appreciate the effect the railroad had on American life from a variety of perspectives (promoters, settlers, Chinese immigrants, American Indians), and become astute analyzers of primary source material and effective writers in a variety of genres.