USA ajalugu
Then slavery was abolished all over America.
INDUSTRIALIZATION AND IMMIGRATION
In less than fifty years the United States was transformed from a rural
republic into an urban state. The nation's economic progress, based on iron,
steam and electrical power was speeded up by thousands of inventions like
telephone and typewriter.
20 million immigrants poured into the country between 1870 and 1910.
they agreed to work at almost any wages and under almost any conditions.
The bettereducated blacks, who had left to the South searching for work
became the object of viloent racial discriminationand were forced into
ghettoes.
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
In April 1917 Congress declared war on Germany, because of attacks
on American passanger ships by German submarines and the discovery of a
German plot to encourage Mexico in war with USA.
THE ROARING TWENTIES
In the 1920s tariffs were brought to their highest level ever and taxes
were drastically reduce