Emerging Power of the United States
—First hundred years
remained isolated
—Improved infrastructure, political system,
internal growth, westward expansion
—New stream of immigrants
in 1850s
—Success of
America borrowed by Europeans during
revolutions
—Civil War – industrial North vs. agricultural South
—Civil War freed slaves, but South eventually re-enslaved through sharecropping
—Accelerated America’s industrialization
—Expand transportation networks
—Armaments manufacturers need markets after war
—American agriculture – mechanized – exported to world
—American
military, art, technology had very little
impact abroad
