U.S. History since 1865

  • California Gold Rush

  • Period: to

    Westward expansion

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    gilded age

  • Imperialism/Gilded age; where

    i moved from Pennsylvania to New York to find a new job due to my injury.
  • Gilded age Technology: elevator

    Due to an injury that i had on my previous construction job, i had to get a new job as a shoe maker of a large business.my injury was so severe that i couldnt walk up stairs, but thankfully i discovered this new invention called an elevator, and my job just happened to have one. it made it was very convinient, despite my condition.
  • Gilded age ideas; Nativism

    Most people in my town are pro nativist. They're tired of all these immigrants coming to the U.S. and taking all of our jobs. they believe that native born should get jobs before the people who came here from other countries.
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    imperialism

  • Imperialism Ideas: Annexing Hawaii

    President William McKinley signed a joint resolution annexing the islands.
  • imperialism people: William Randolf Hearst

    hearst was the owner of "The New York Journal". He was known to be a yallow journalist. for example'Hearst ran a story with the heading "The War Ship Maine was Split in Two by an Enemy's Secret Infernal Machine".
  • Imperialism ideas: Yellow Journalism

    today i was in town, and i saw everybody crowded around a newspaper stand. i went up to the stand to see what the big idea was, and the headline of the newspaper said,"U.S.S. Main sunk by the blood thirsty spanish!!!" they were selling tons of pepers at the stand,i even bought one myself.