A History of America in 100 Maps

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INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS 163 With the Homestead Act as an incentive, Americans flooded into the Great Plains and th ...

164 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 was regarded as a national triumph, ...

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166 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The intense antagonism toward the Chinese in San Francisco was one response to the massive ...

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168 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS At the turn of the twentieth century, Philadelphia had the largest and oldest African Ameri ...

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170 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The expansion of American trade and military activity abroad in the 1890s prompted a sustai ...

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172 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The Panama Canal remains one of the most remarkable engineering feats in history, the reali ...

INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS 173 reach, as shown on the previous page. This new posture led McKinley—and the Senate—to ...

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INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS 175 Among the most commonly reproduced maps in American history is this depiction of the p ...

I In light of the byzantine alliances and swollen arsenals that had been building across Europe for years, the outbreak of war i ...

it was also one experienced in radically different ways by African Americans in the era of segregation (page 198). The roads tha ...

178 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS On the morning of May 7, 1915, a German submarine torpedoed the British ocean liner RMS Lus ...

PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION, REFORM 179 phrase “no-man’s-land” was used to designate the exposed and immovable zone between the two b ...

180 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS While the carnage wrought by World War I indelibly shaped Europe, the United States suffere ...