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Hace 4 días · The history of the United States from 1865 to 1917 was marked by the Reconstruction era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and includes the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of immigration in the United States . This period of rapid economic growth and soaring prosperity in the Northern United States and the Western ...
Hace 1 día · Long Term Economic Growth – 1860–1965: A Statistical Compendium. Business Booms and Depressions since 1775, a chart of the past trend of price inflation, federal debt, business, national income, stocks and bond yields for the United States from 1775 to 1943. Budget of the United States Government.
Hace 2 días · When I was writing professional workshops on the Civil War and Industrialization it was important to include information on what our country's geography had to offer its citizens. I hope this provides you with some background material. In the world, as result of several mutually reinforcing influences, geographically, the United States was one of the most extensive countries, commanding the ...
Hace 2 días · Forests cleared for development, left only the remote mountain areas of the Catskills untouched and the once abundant fish and game became nearly extinct, leading to the demise of America's first “wilderness” by 1850. 1 Yet looking at View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains, one would never know this history.
Hace 3 días · Frederick Douglass The politicians of the 1850s were acting in a society in which the traditional restraints that suppressed sectional conflict in the 1820s and 1850s – the most important of which being the stability of the two-party system – were being eroded as this rapid extension of democracy went forward in the North and South. It was an era when the mass political party galvanized ...
Quotable facts for the 1890s. In 1890, most families' income was around $500 to $1,000 annually. Source: Congress. In 1890, wage-earning families spent an average 41% of income on food, 15% on rent, 15% on clothing, 14% on fuel & light, and 22% on misc purposes.
Hace 5 días · Therefore in order to maintain that balance, America's leaders from both the north an south created a series of compromises that politicians hoped would prevent the issue of slavery from disrupting the political process: The Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854.
