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Closing Frotintier
The transcontinental railroad became the catalyst for much of the new conflict. Before its completion, the only Americans to venture westward had done so on horseback or Conestoga wagon. Now thousands more could migrate much more quickly, cheaply, and comfortably. As the numbers of white settlers from the East increased dramatically, conflicts with the native tribes did so as well. -
The Gilded Age
During this time most American worked for an employer. America´s economy doubled its size, New technologies and new ways of organizing business led a few individuals to the top. -
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Seeking Empire
Americans were constantly stretching their boundaries to encompass more territory. When the United States government was formed, the practice continued. The first half of the 19th century was spent defining the nation's borders through negotiation and war, and the second half was spent populating the fruits of the labor. As the 20th century dawned, many believed that the expansion should continue. -
World War I
When European conflicts erupted, many in the United States claimed exceptionalism. When the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was killed in cold blood, igniting the most destructive war in human history, -
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The jazz age
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The Decade That Roared
New products seemed to burst from American production lines with the potential of revolutionizing American life. -
The Great Depression
At the end of the 1920s, the United States boasted the largest economy in the world.The stock market crash touched off a chain of events that plunged the United States into its longest, deepest economic crisis of its history. -
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Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombers fire on the USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack left President Roosevelt with no choice but to enter World War II. -
Postwar Challenges
When Japan surrendered to the Allies at the end of the long summer of 1945, Americans were ecstatic. Ticker tape parades were staged in nearly every town to welcome America's returning heroes unquestionably, the United States entry in World War II made the difference for the Allied cause. The American army and navy were now the most powerful in the world. Even those who did not fight could feel proud of the work Americans did in the factories to build the war machine. -
World War II
It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised.begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and Slovakia, -
New Civil Rights
African American demands that their Fourteenth Amendment civil rights be protected. Soon, a peaceful equality movement began under the unofficial leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
The 1950's: Happy Days
Reruns of 1950s TV shows such as Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best leave today's viewers with an impression of unadulterated family bliss. The baby boomers look back nostalgically to these years that marked their early childhood experiences. -
A New America
A new feminist movement emerged in the 1960s pressing for modern reforms.Latino Americans and Native Americans had also languished in the bottom economic strata throughout much of the prosperous 1950s. -
The Reagan Years
Ronald Reagan swept into office in 1980 with a sizeable victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter. Tax cuts and military spending were the hallmark of his administration. -
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Operation Dessert Storm
In the 1988 election, George Bush and his running mate. Dan Quayle, won 54% of the popular vote and 426 of the 538 electoral votes, soundly beating Democrat Michael Dukakis.The first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War presented itself in August 1990. Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait. This was no ordinary act of aggression. -
Living In the Information Age
Technological changes brought dramatic new options to Americans living in the 1990s. From the beginning of the decade until the end, new forms of entertainment, commerce, research, work, and communication became commonplace in the United States. The driving force behind much of this change was an innovation popularly known as the Internet. -
Baby Boomer In The White House
President Bush enjoyed an approval rating in March 1991 of 91 percent for his handling of Operation Desert Storm. As the Presidential race for 1992 began to unfold, many potential candidates were scared to challenge him and look to 1996 as a better opportunity. But the recession that battered the American economy would not go away. As growth remained low and unemployment persisted, some of the shine began to wear off the President. Not since James Monroe's -
Republican vs. Democrats
One of the first major initiatives he began was health care reform. Many Americans were concerned about spiraling medical costs. Medicare did not cover prescription drugs and only paid a portion of health care costs. Over 20 million Americans had no health insurance whatsoever. Clinton assembled a task force to study the problem and assigned his wife Hillary to head the committee. She became the most politically active first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt. -
New Milenium
A minor glitch in computer programming, nicknamed "The Y2K Bug" threatened to crash computers as the calendar ticked from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000. In the end, the new millennium mostly came and went without so much as a virtual bug bite. -
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Organized Labor
The United States economy revolved around the factory.Most Americans living in the Gilded Age knew nothing of the millions of Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan. -
The End of American century
During the first half of the 20th century, the United States proved to be the decisive combatant in two major world wars, earning the right to determine a post war outcome. The Cold War that plagued the world in the last half of the 20th century proved in the end to be an American victory as well.American scientists had developed nuclear technology, the computer, put human beings on the moon, and were at the vanguard of immunization techniques.
