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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 .
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Developing a market economy
By the 1840s, the Industrial Revolutionwas transforming the Northeast, with a dense network of railroads, canals, textile mills, small industrial cities, and growing commercial centers, with hubs in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia. Although manufacturing interests, especially in Pennsylvania, sought a high tariff, the actual tariff in effect was low, and was reduced several times, with the 1857 tariff the lowest in decades. The Midwest region, based on farming and increasingly on anim...
Immigration and labor
To fill the new factory jobs, immigrants poured into the United States in the first mass wave of immigration in the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the period of old immigration, this time saw 4.2 million immigrants come into the United States raising the overall population by 20 million people. Historians often describe this as a time of "push-pull" immigration. People who were "pushed" to the United States immigrated because of poor conditions back home that made survival dubious while immigrants...
Wilmot Proviso
In 1848 the acquisition of new territory from Mexico through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo renewed the sectional debate over slavery. The question of whether the new territory would allow slavery was the main question, with Northern Congressmen hoping to limit slavery and Southern Congressmen hoping to expand the territory in which it was legal. Soon after the war began, Democratic Congressman David Wilmot proposed that territory won from Mexico should be free from the institution of slaver...
The Popular Sovereignty Debate
With the failure of the Wilmot Proviso, Senator Lewis Cass introduced the idea of popular sovereignty in Congress. In an attempt to hold the Congress together as it continued to divide along sectional rather than party lines, Cass proposed that Congress did not have the power to determine whether territories could allow slavery, since this was not an enumerated power listed in the Constitution. Instead, Cass proposed that the people living in the territories themselves should decide the slave...
California Gold Rush
The election of 1848 produced a new president from the Whig Party, Zachary Taylor. President Polk did not seek reelection because he gained all his objectives in his first term and because his health was declining. From the election emerged the Free Soil Party, a group of anti-slavery Democrats who supported Wilmot's Proviso. The creation of the Free Soil Party foreshadowed the collapse of the Second party system; the existing parties could not contain the debate over slavery for much longer....
On April 12, 1861, after President Lincoln refused to give up Fort Sumter, the federal base in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, the new Confederate government under President Jefferson Davis ordered General P.G.T. Beauregard to open fire on the fort. It fell two days later, without casualty, spreading the flames of war across America. Imme...
Beringer, Richard E.; Jones, Archer; Still, William N.; Hattaway, Herman (1988). The Elements of Confederate Defeat: Nationalism, War Aims, and Religion. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978082031...Burton, Vernon O. (2007) [2006]. The Age of Lincoln. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780809095131.Catton, Bruce (1971) [1960]. The Civil War. ISBN 9780070102668.Cheathem, Mark R.; Terry, Corps (2016). Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442273207."On the Eve of War: North vs. South"lesson plan for grades 9-12 from National Endowment for the Humanities "EDSITEMENT" series
The history of the United States from 1865 until 1917 covers 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 article focuses on political, economic, and diplomatic history.
Historia de Estados Unidos (1865-1918) Tropas de la caballería estadounidense durante la Batalla de Prairie Dog Creek, en 1867, en el contexto de las Guerras indias . Obreros chinos construyendo el primer ferrocarril transcontinental de Estados Unidos .
The history of the United States from 1865 until 1918 covers 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 article focuses on political, economic, and diplomatic history.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In the United States the period 1849 and 1865 was dominated by the tensions that led to the American Civil War between North and South, and the bloody fighting in 1861-1865 that produced Northern victory in the war and ended slavery.
