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American History Gallery |
Ten Days That Shook the Nation - The Moo
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Images of Labor - Striker
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Chief Joseph
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Gallery Description
For nearly three centuries, the New World was part of the Colonial empires of the western European nations. It was in 1776 that a few of the American colonies declared independence and started calling themselves the United States of America. The colonial history is longer than the history of the independent nation, which has been independent for 229 years compared to the 284 years when it was under colonial rule.
The Enlightenment period, during the eighteenth century was a great revolution in man’s style of thinking with great ideas and events, inventions that shattered existing beliefs, vast improvements in science and technology and the new style of religion that was more broad-minded that the traditional one. The period of American Revolution was characterized by the struggle for equality among people of different races, the struggle for equal right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” according to Thomas Jefferson, the American President from 1801-1809.
The Civil war in America, in the late eighteenth century was the first democratic political revolution where slavery was addressed as the major issue and it also denoted the revolution between the North and the South.
Then came the industrial revolution and the urbanization of America, the major milestones paving the way for the development of the America we see today. America was also the pioneer in the development of the modern political parties. With the development of political parties came the struggle for power. World War I in 1914 occurred against a background of internal tensions and disorders, mounting political, economic and social dysfunctions. The Great Depression immediately after the World War I upset the relationship of America with the rest of the world. World War II involved the whole world, struggling for power and authority starting with Hitler’s invasion of Poland going all the way to the bomb attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The Cold war followed leading to a period of hostility between nations.
Through all this, America has matured adjusting its mental and physical habits, to a nation with a better self-esteem, a nation with the might of money and technology, a nation which is the super-power in today’s world. Our American History Gallery brings to you some of those moments that young America went through, the people, their cultures and traits.
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Friday, August, 29 th
2008
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