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

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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.

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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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