American society history between 1865 and 1945.

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   The history of the United States between 1865 to 1918 consisted on Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, that includes the prosperity of industrialization and the resulting surge of immigration in the United States. Due to this phase of rapid economic growth and soaring success in North and West part, America become the world's One of dominant economic, industrial and agricultural power, although it enjoyed less international influence than Britain. After inflation the average annual income of nonfarm workers increase by 75% from 1865 to 1900, then rise another 33% by 1918. With a brilliant victory in 1865 over Southern secessionists in the Civil War, the United States became a united and strong nation, with a more influential national government. New reconstruction brought the end of slavery and citizenship for the earlier slaves, but because of Jim Crow" system of segregation they become second class citizens. After 1900 the influential Era brought political and social changes and the modernization reforms for several areas of government and society, such as new roles for education and a higher status for women. Because of unprecedented wave of European immigration, 27.5 million new arrivals came during 1865 and 1918. This large scale immigration provided the labor base for the enhancement of industry and agriculture. In the end of nineteenth century, the United States had become a prominent global industrial power. There were two wars in the US history, in 1988, the US successful defeated Spain which unexpectedly brought a small empire, of which Puerto Rico and became permanent possessions.

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