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Industrial America
Steel manufactoring boomed. Railroads expanded and many new inventions were made. -
The US and the Caribbean
The US and Caribbeans relationship underwent change. They were closely tied to the transition of the US to an industrial and imperial power. -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded age is a period appoximatly spanning the final three decades from the 19th centry; from the end of the reconstruction Era in the 1870s to 1900 -
The Depression of 1893
In its impact on industry and employment, the depression of the 1890s was on a par with the Great Depression of the 1930s. In some places it began before 1890, in a deep agricultural crisis that hit Southern cotton-growing regions and the Great Plains in the late 1880s. Jobs were hard to find and most thingd were slow. -
Mass Immigration
After the depression of the 1890s, immigration jumped from a low of 3.5 million in that decade to a high of 9 million in the first decade of the new century. Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe continued coming as they had for three centuries, but in decreasing numbers. After the 1880s, immigrants increasingly came from Eastern and Southern European countries, as well as Canada and Latin America. -
World War 1
World War I was an extremely bloody war that engulfed Europe from 1914 to 1919, with huge losses of life and little ground lost or won. Fought mostly by soldiers in trenches, World War took the lives of many, and wounded many others. -
The American West
After rail ways were created this oped many economic oppertunities and places to settle. This made it easier for trade.