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    DBQ: US expansion American expansion in the late 19th century and early 20th century held many similarities to that of early American expansionism. The motives for early American expansion held similar to that of the turn of the 19th century in that the United States has grown in the reasoning of Manifest Destiny‚ the progress of the American economy and an increasing perception of American racial supremacy. Through the course of history‚ American expansionist incentives have shifted from withstanding

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    evolution in school. He was arrested‚ tried‚ and convicted. Conviction was overturned and fine went away. “Scopes Monkey Trial” play based on this event. This was a gov’t set up‚ test case for schools to teach evolution. Maps: 41. Mexico invades the US here: New Mexico 42. This was the Laboratory of Democracy: Wisconsin 43. Charles Evans Hughes was a progressive governor of this state: New York 44. Location of the Teapot Dome: Wyoming 45. Jeanette Rankin was elected as the first female

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    Cracks Ninety nine percent of Americans lived and worked in hell‚ while the elite one percent lived in heaven as money became a god to society! Something had to change! The Gilded Age is a term coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873)‚ which satirized an era of serious social problems (Doc 2). The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth. Cities grew as people moved from rural areas and immigrants arrived from other countries in search of a better life. Instead they found

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    A Belle Époque or a Gilded Age In the decades that led up to World War I‚ Europe experienced what some scholars believed to be a Golden Age. However‚ beneath the gilded surface of prosperity and exponential advancements‚ the countries of Europe were stricken with an unseen‚ developing menace. While technological improvements and an influx of industrial developments were making way for the dawn of an age never before dreamt of‚ there were deep rooted problems that would plague the seemingly ideal

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    Unit 10: The Gilded Age Economic & social changes 1865 – 1920 Part one: The Last Frontier The Final settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West Historiography THE FRONTIER THESIS: Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American History – July 12‚ 1893 1890 Census – no more defined frontier line; had pockets of settlement spread out Turner Thesis: spirit and success of US is directly tied to westward expansion; a turning point in American Identity American Identity:

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    William McKinley I. William McKinley was born on January 29‚ 1843 in Niles‚ Ohio. He died on September 14‚ 1901 in Buffalo New York. McKinley was the third president to be assassinated. II. McKinley ran for the Presidency from Ohio. III. McKinley had a relatively easy and normal childhood. He was the seventh child of eight. His parents were loving people who instilled in McKinley the importance of hard-work‚ religion‚ and education. McKinley worked very hard in school as a youth and then attended

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    INTRODUCTION: The Gilded Age is known as the time between the Civil War and World War I. The term “Gilded Age” comes from Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Twain said it was a period that was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. At the same time‚ there was an increase in industry and labor unions‚ as well as an inflow of immigrants. All these factors during this time influenced the social‚ economic‚ and political atmosphere of the Gilded Age. This time

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    During a span form the 1870’s to 1900 our nation saw and unprecedented amount of industrial‚ economic‚ and population growth. Given the name of Gilded Age by Mark Twain he noted that our nation was gleaming on the outside‚ but below the surface there lies much corruption. The “Crime of Poverty” by Henry George was a famous address to the public. The crime he speaks of was of those suffering from poverty‚ and were forced into those dire conditions by circumstances beyond their control. In

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    20th century‚ dubbed the Gilded Age by writer Mark Twain‚ was a time of great growth and change in every aspect of the United States‚ and even more so for big business. It was this age that gave birth to many of the important modern business practices we take for granted today‚ and those in charge of business at the time were considered revolutionaries‚ whether it was for the good of the people or the good of themselves. The exact period of time in which the Gilded Age occurred is ever-debatable

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    Chapter 4- storyline The Chesapeake said life was nasty‚ brutish‚ and short because there were diseases‚ the climate was unhealthy and life expectancy was less than 20 years of age. Although life was unhealthy for humans‚ it was healthy enough to grow tobacco. They didn’t have anybody to plant the tobacco because life expectancy was short and people were dying because of the harsh diseases‚ so they got indentured servants‚ who were people who voluntarily mortgaged the sweat of their bodies for several

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