civil war and industrialization of USA

Tensions between slave and free states, the state and federal governments, as well as violent conflicts over the spread of slavery into new states are mounted with arguments over the relationship. [51] Abraham Lincoln, the great abolitionist Republican Party candidate, was elected president in 1860. [52] Before he took office, the seven slave states declared their separatist - which consists of the United States federal government maintained was illegal and U.S. ally. [53]

GETTYSBURG war. Civil union, cemented and steel industry transcontinental railroad construction stimulated
Ellis Island immigrants from the east coast of the factories, railways and mine work, the demand created by industrialized agriculture
With the confederate attack on Fort SUMTER, civil war, and four more slave states joined the Confederacy. [53] Lincoln's 1863 Proclamation of Independence was declared free the slaves in the Confederacy. U.S. Constitution to 1865, three amendments to nearly four million African Americans followed the Union victory guarantees the freedom of slaves who were, [54] and their citizens, and gave them voting rights. The war and its resolution is a substantial increase in federal power. [55] remains the deadliest conflict in American history, the death of 620,000 soldiers. [56]
After the war, Abraham Lincoln radicalized Republican Reconstruction policy of reintegrating and rebuilding the Southern states while ensuring the rights of the newly freed Das [57] 1876 resolution of the disputed presidential election in 1877 ended Reconstruction. 's Compromised by, soon Jim Crowe laws of many African Americans. [57]
In North, urbanization and an unprecedented influx of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe industrialized countries hastened. Wave of immigration, lasting until 1924, provided labor and transformed American culture. [58] National Infrastructure development and economic growth headed. Civil War and American West was settled by further encouraging development. For this reason, social and technological's first transcontinental telegraph in 1861 and 1869, the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, including the development of a number.
Purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 to expand the mainland. 1890 was wounded in the knee to kill the last major armed conflict of the Indian Wars. In 1893, the indigenous monarchy Pacific Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown in a coup led by American residents of the U.S. Joint archipelago in 1898. Spanish - American War victory in the same year shows that the United States was a world power and led Puerto Rico's annexation, Guam and the Philippines [59] Argentina gained independence a half-century later. To Puerto Rico and Guam remain U.S. territories.
Many prominent business people look Golden Age in the 19th century, a time of wealth and power in the emerging business class. This allows dynamic, many areas of society, public protection for regulatory, competition is greater, and the living conditions of the working class, with attention to the production of a period of great reform. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of progressive reform