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A period of expansion, industrialization, immigration and urbanization with significant effects on
Native Americans, workers, immigrants, and the rise of big business in the late 19th century. -
During the early 20th century the U.S. entered a new historical era: an Age of Expansionism
beyond our natural borders as the country moved from isolationism. U.S. imperialism led to
involvement in the Spanish-American War, changing policies in Latin America and Asia and
eventually to World War I. At home, reformers made efforts to correct economic and social
abuses of the Gilded Age. -
The 16th Amemndment gave congress the power to tax personal income.
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The 17th amendment established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
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This was an era in which the global conflict of World War I and its effects had an impact on all
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The 18th amendemtn banned the sale of alcohol.
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This was also an era of significant prosperity and social change as Americans became more
isolationist and responded to significant change in social norms, consumerism, technological
advances and artistic achievement. -
The 19th amemndment established that no state could ban a citizen the right to vote based on gender.
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Beginning with the Stock Market Crash in 1929, this era is marked by severe depression and
the increasing role of the Federal government to improve the economy. -
The rise of totalitarian governments in Europe and East Asia led to World War II and
involvement of the United States in that conflict. -
Pulled country out of great depression
Declared was on Japan after bombing of Pearl Harbor-US =entered WWII -
This post-war era is marked by issues of communism vs. democracy in Europe and America
after World War II. It includes the United States and the Soviet Union as competing
superpowers in the balance of power. The escalation of the Cold War from containment to the
outbreak of the Korean War and foreign policies of the Kennedy / Johnson years including the
growing conflict in Vietnam as well as the ending of the Cold War in the 1980s. -
Used atomic weapons against Japan to bring WWII to an end
Executed policy to contain communism (Truman Doctrine) -
This era highlights the issues of emerging rights for minorities and the leaders and critical
events of the modern 20th century civil rights movement. -
Montgomery BUs Boycott (1955)
Letters from Bermingham -
An era of change as the U.S. experienced the end of the Cold War, new conflicts in the Middle
East, the impeachment of a President and a controversial election to begin a new century. -
Early in this century America dealt with a new threat of terrorism at home with the attacks on the
World Trade Center on 9/11 and a decade of the “War Against Terror”. This era also marked the
election of the first African-American President of the United States in 2008.
