Denver South High School - Johnny Reb Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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The massacres and mistreatment of the Amer- ican Indians in the West were even cmeler than what was happening in the South during the Reconstruction Era, The battle of Wounded Knee left ISO Sioux Indians dead. The reason for such cruelty was to prevent the Indians from inhibiting the white man's progress. The progress was continued as the United States became a colonial power, With the annex- ation of the Phillipines in 1898, the United States also acquired the difficulties of governing a colony.

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A 200 Year Experiment :,,,:L-1.. ,,.,..,. . .te , George Waslungton was extremely important in maintaining the infant republic. With the establishment of a republic by the Constitution, the people of Europe felt that the United States would never endure. As years went by, however, it became evident that the United States was going to be powerful. Within seventy years, the entire area of land that is now the con- tiguous forty-eight states had been acquired. This expansion caused much of the death and destruction in the United States from 1830 to 1890. The most obvious abuses were those of the massacres of Indians as well as white settlers. The other important event caused by Manifest Destiny was the Civil War. Since the South was worried about retaining their right to hold slaves, they sought new slave states. It was the conflict between the South and the Abolitionists that caused the War Between the Statesf' N... . Q.. 'Mfg NMA ...ws wi .. These are the entrenchments at the Battle of Petersburg june 1864-March 1865

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Women march for the right to vote. This aircraft, vintage 1910, landed at Den- ver's Overland Park, t Ma 'V The ceremonial driving of the golden spike marked the completion of the trans continental railway. The country was also colonized', by the last great wave of immigrants in the early 1900's. Most of the newcomers were Italians, Slavs, Greeks, and Turks. These anarchists, as they were called, were scorned by the Scandanavian and Germans, who themselves had come fifty S years earlier, and people from the British Isles. Most of these immigrant families worked in factories, largely under very poor working con tions. There had been a move to reform these di- conditions, but it was not until a Senate investi- gation was launched after the killing of 146 peo- ple in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 that labor reforms began to be developed.