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Tobacco in Early America
During the founding of America, tobacco was one of the most important cash crops that influenced early trade and mercantilism. Over the past few months, I have created visualization, written texts, and other projects about tobacco in the Mid-Atlantic region of America. Different forms of research and presentation can provide different insight and help contextualize…
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Geographic Information Systems
Georeferencing is the use of coordinates to transfer an image or map onto a coordinate database. I used georeferencing for my map, in which I took a map drawn in the 18th century of the mid-atlantic region, found control points on that and Esri, and overlaid the drawn map onto a more modern and accurate…
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Gerrymandering
Spatial History Spatial History is the consideration of geological factors, typically using visualizations, to contextualize historical events. Maps today look way different than they did hundreds of years ago, and it is important for historians to consider this when conducting research. For example, state, local, and national borders can be redrawn depending on the people…
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Visualizations
Timeline My timeline was about the relation of the early colonists’ discovery of America and its relation to the tobacco crop. The events on my timeline, although quite spread out and seemingly unrelated, were chosen carefully to get a full understanding of my topic. While Christopher Columbus was never alive to see the port of…
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Dataset Assignment and Blog
Citation: “IMPORT OF VIRGINIA TOBACCO INTO NEW YORK.” The Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 18, no. 2, (1848): 211. Proquest. Airtable: https://airtable.com/appLbtwquSeojHpnI/shrh75uB9441qPCmZ I selected the Source “IMPORT OF VIRGINIA TOBACCO INTO NEW YORK” because it has various data on tobacco exports from Virginia both geographically and chronologically. I chose this because my topic is…
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Primary and Secondary Sources
Source 1 “IMPORT OF VIRGINIA TOBACCO INTO NEW YORK.” The Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 18, no. 2, (1848): 211. Proquest. This is a primary source about Virginia’s exports of tobacco to New York, and comparing it to the previous year from when it was written. This source shows the growth in demand for…
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Posts
2/9/2024 Railroads and the Making of Modern America: A Review Railroads and the Making of Modern America is a digital history project that has a collection of scholarly articles, primary sources, and data sets related to the use of railroads in America. The first railroad in America was built in the early 19th century, and…