The early twentieth century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. The Progressive era was a time of immense change in America and American society. ... The final aspect changed during this turbulent era was the raid on big business labor practices. ... I trust that our nation was not founded on exploiting labor, that's why we fought such a great war, was to end such immorality. ... The most recognized muckrakers of the Progressive Era were Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell. ...

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The next stage of constitutional development is the Civil War Era, or it really should be called the Post-Civil War Era since everything significant that happened to the Constitution occurred after or as a result of the Civil War. After the Union was officially victorious in the war in 1865, President Lincoln made it his first order of business to outlaw the sole activity that the war was being fought over, which was the act of slavery. ... As the Civil War Era came to an end, there wouldn't be any more major constitutional developments until a ways down the road and into the early 1900s...

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-Walter Cronkite The origins of the Cold War have been debated since 1945 when, at the end of World War II, the allied countries of Great Britain, The United States, and The Soviet Union had to decide how to map out the fate of Europe. ... As would be expected, the period during the 1960's and 1970's, the debate over the origins of the Cold War between traditionalists and revisionists was extremely argumentative and scathing: In the 1960's, debates generated by the cold war and the war in Vietnam brought the so-called cold war revisionist interpretation. This view announced tha...

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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... Although, I personally wo...

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The Manhattan Project was such an important project because it not only ended World War II but it brought the world into the nuclear age and the new era of the cold war. ... The United States entered the war in the midst of the greatest economic depression the country had ever seen and ended the war as an international superpower with atomic capabilities. ... The Manhattan Project not only ended the largest and most destructive war in a decisive manor, it also shaped world politics throughout the cold war. At the end of World War II, only the United States possessed the atomic bomb. ... In c...

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Sharecropping appeared in the United States shortly after the Civil War had ended. ... The government knew that the recovery period after the civil war would not be quick, and by 1933 the South was in a state of chaos with prices for farm products being at an all-time low, and the cost of living was steadily increasing. ... Still the idea of racial integration to achieve common goals helped set the stage for the civil rights era. ... This pre civil rights era set the stage for the war on racism and segregation and shows how no matter what the color your skin was that people can come together r...

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Economic prosperity continued after the war as more Americans had jobs and work wages increased. ... Also, the public's attitude toward the war was filled with disillusionment and loss of morality. ... The post-war period saw the increase in anti-immigration sentiment within American society. Many immigrants from Europe had their homelands ravaged by the war and sought to come to America, where the war had no damaging effects, in search of opportunity. ... As a result of the devastation the war had upon Britain, which held the strongest economy in the world prior to the war, the financial...

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The Civil war rages, the War between the States has become known as the bloodiest war ever fought. The Civil War divided the United States between its Northern and Southern states. ... The start of the war began with the firing on Ft. ... Although there has not been agreement on the major causes of the War, this essay will explore possible immediate causes and long term causes of the War. ... The War was the beginning and ending of a way of life for all, and the beginning of an expansion era of the United States....

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Since Socrates' era, many acts of civil disobedience have occurred and, many people say, propelled society forwards in its development of the definition of justice. ... Although it had violated the draft law, the Declaration of Conscience was necessary to those who opposed the war. ... The Declaration urged men to disobey the draft in order to force an end to the war. ... Through peaceful action against the war, the signers of the Declaration of Conscience demonstrated civil disobedience. ... Knowing the outcome of the Vietnam War makes it easy to argue that the Declaration of Conscie...

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The twentieth century has witnessed wars of appalling destructiveness, global warfare and innumerable local wars. The advent of total war, that is, war against entire populations for unlimited stakes made war at best a dangerous instrument of state policy. ... In considering the likelihood of major war in the future it is necessary to inquire into the causes of war. ... Parallels have been drawn between our own age and the periods preceding other great wars, particularly World War I. ... Especially war and peace issues. ...

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The years after the War of 1812 marked the beginning of the first modern "post-war" era. ... This increase in manufacturing created employment opportunities for many post war Americans in the North East. ... Many new state banks began operation following the war. ... It marked the end of the economic expansion that had followed the War of 1812. ... The period following the War of 1812 was a time of dramatic growth and intense nationalism. ...

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War is the part of the human condition that inflicts the most pain on mankind. The United States has dealt with its fair share of war, and in the past, many of America's wars have been justifiable on the grounds of self-defense, but today that has changed. America's wars in the modern era don't benefit the American nation and consume too many lives and resources. ... For instance, take the Vietnam War, a highly controversial affair in which fifty-five thousand Americans lost their lives. ... Humans are self-destructive creatures by nature, and war has often times been, and w...

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The end of the Civil War marked this transition from a more agricultural nation to an industrialized one. ... Not only were reforms an important part of politics in this era but electoral politics made a mark in 1896 with William McKinley's landslide victory. ... The final major event of any diplomatic relations in this era was the Spanish-American War. ... The Spanish-American War is more a result of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence. ... The most distinct social difference in America during this era was the introduction of so many immigrants. ...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... And the beginning of the clash of interests of the USSR and the USA in various parts of the globe, making the prospects of cooperation ghostly superpowers and actually marked the beginning of an era of confrontation. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war....

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Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to European political and military affairs. ... But by 1820 a longer era...

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The war left far reaching consequences, and although the Unionists won the war and the country remained intact, it left a mark that didn't wash for the years to come. After the devastating war there were two major problems facing the re-united country, the reconstruction of the south which was torn apart by the war and the emancipation of the slaves. ... Perman examines the historical accounts and the literature produced in the 1950s and 60s about the controversial era of Reconstruction. This is a short synthesis of modern historical interpretation of the Reconstruction era and the varyi...

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The Steel Beneath the Gold "Gild"ed: To Make seem more attractive or valuable than it is" -Webster's New World Dictionary Between the Civil War and the early 20th century, an era of growth, wealth, and power was born. In this era, the United States became an Industrial powerhouse amongst the world, becoming the most industrialized nation on the planet. ... While the previous statements were in no way false, they are only half of the era's characteristics. ... From the end of the Civil war to the end of the 19th century, the United States population had doubled due to th...

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Revolution ended up being the relationship between the two, which promptly broke out as the Revolutionary War in 1775. ... Carolina but those requirements were abolished before the Civil war. ... The party quick to seize in time for the Civil war was the modern Republican Party, which was mainly favored in the northern states. The Democratic Party was also formed and generally favored by the southern states or states that opposed war. ... In this era religious associations increased sharply, the anti-slavery movement began, and moving closer to the civil war trade unions based on crafts em...

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The period of 1789-1815 in the American history was an era of establishing America as a nation in the world. It was a period not long after the American Revolution, in a war which the Americans won their independence and then together formed a new nation. ... This era was also the start of a transformation that industrialized America and changed the American economy and society greatly. ... A year before the Whiskey rebellion, war broke out in Europe between France and England. ... This led to the Quasi-War, an undeclared war in which both navies were raiding each other's fleets. ...

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During the cold war era globalization also had a part to play in the degrading of a number of African countries. During the cold war Ethiopia was a reliable ally to the United States who were trying to stop the spread of communism in sub Saharan Africa (Shinn). ... Now Somalia and Ethiopia are both know around the world in a negative light due to the entire problem they have undergone lately, such as civil war, poverty crime and this is all a result of the long term effects the cold war left on these two countries. ... The negative side of this is that this also applies to weaponry, which lead...

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What changed and what stayed the same in the era of the American Revolution between 1775 and 1789? ... After the end of the civil war in England, and the restoration of King Charles II, England closed its grip on the colonies. ... On the eve of the revolutionary war the political situation in the American colonies was still fairly stable. ... The War of Independence was just that, a bid for independence. ... Though there was no doubt that the revolutionary war of the 1770's changed the political path that America was to take, the actual changes to the system of government were only small...

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Public opinion over proliferation has varied widely over the past five decades, ranging from mass hysteria during the Cold-War era, to indifference. ... Perhaps this is the most critical period due to the fact that in the post Cold-War era there is not one imminent threat, but a multitude of threats. ... Uncertainty, fear, and continued disputes over Kashmir characterize these countries, putting them on the brink of another war, possibly a nuclear war this time. ...

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The decade of 1789-1799 was full of constant "party wars" with both sides claiming to understand the full meaning of America's independence. ... Even after the civil war, arguments of racial injustices and human rights that echo the slavery arguments of the revolutionary era have continued into the twenty-first century. ... In 1794, Washington sent Chief Justice John Jay to England to try to bargain out of a war with England. ... After the revolutionary era passed, questions surrounding slavery and federal versus state laws did not die down. ... Ellis" statement is indeed correct, for tw...

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(Perez, 15), a small island like Cuba had one revolution and effectively terrified and traumatized the US government and American people, especially since this all occurred during the Cold War era where a nuclear war with USSR was very real. ... The aftershocks of the revolution are still being felt today (mostly), as the revolution and Cold War era hysteria dictated the US's foreign policy with Cuba and the embargo is still in effect today. ...

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The United States, previous to these attacks, had been allies to The Middle East and even Bin Laden, during the Gulf War. ... Canada did not have a very significant role in this war until 2006, when the forces were redirected to Kandahar. ... In 2009, statistics demonstrated that 138 Canadian soldiers had been killed in the Afghanistan War. ... From a realist perspective, it is important to consider the true depths of a nation's decision to engage in war. ... In this era, the principal means available for the Soviet Union to launch a devastating atomic attack against the United States was...

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