n the decades after the American Civil War, the frontier was conquered to the point the Census could declare it “closed” in 1890. At that point the U.S. began to pursue American interests around the world.
In the decades after the American Civil War shows to the period from 1865 to the end of the 19th century, a time of rapid westward expansion, industrialization, and social change in the U.S.
hese service industries profited from the mining boom: as failed prospectors found, the rush itself often generated more wealth than the mines. The $25.5 million in gold that left Colorado in the first seven years after the Pikes Peak gold strike, for example, was less than half of what speculators had invested in the fever.
The mining boom often enriched service industries still as the rush generated massive speculation. In Colorado, the gold extracted was less than half of what investors poured into it..
At the end of 1921, the new president, Warren G. Harding, commuted Debs’ sentence to time served. We will return to resistance to World War I in a later chapter.
And why did President Harding commute Eugene Debs sentence in 1921 what does this suggest about changing attitudes toward world war I dissent?
The Socialist Party of America (SPA), founded in 1901, carried on the American third-party political tradition. Socialist mayors were elected in thirty-three cities and towns, from Berkeley, California, to Schenectady, New York, and two socialists from Wisconsin and New York won congressional seats.
How did the Socialist Party of America gain influence in the early 1900s and what does their electoral success reveal about public sentiment at the time?
, despairing farmers faced low crop prices and found few politicians on their side.
It's odd that people let farmers struggled with falling crop prices, leaving them in economic despair. With little political support, they felt abandoned by the government.