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Annexation of Hawaii

Hawaii has a long history, but the American occupation and annexation really began in 1893 with a group of farmers overthrowing the queen of the islands, a woman named Lydia Kamakaeha Liliuokalani. They imprisoned Liliuokalani while seizing almost 2 million acres of land to annex to the U.S. America refused her plea to "regain the throne" and following the former queen's death, Hawaii was declared a territory of the U.S. In 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state admitted to the union. Nearly ninety percent of its people supported the move to statehood.

Separate But Equal

"Separate but equal" allowed states to pass laws requiring separate accommodations and facilities for people on the basis of race or color in order to prevent African-Americans, who had recently been freed from slavery, from intermingling with whites, who believed themselves superior to African-Americans.

This Doctrine allowed for better relation between whites and blacks, although not much of an improvement an improvement non the less.

Spanish American War

The benefits of the Spanish-American war, although few, were great. At the time of an industrializing nation, a victory over the empire of Spain has established the U.S. as one of the world powers. Another benefit to the war was the gain of land. When the Treaty of Paris was signed we also bought the Philipine Islands from Spain for a small $20 million.

End of the Civil War

The Civil War brought the US together in two ways:

It ended slavery. Since slavery was a major bone of contention between the two regions, ending it helped make the US more of a united whole.

It ended the idea that states could secede. Up until that time, some people believed states had the right to leave the Union whenever they wanted. Hardly anyone thinks that anymore.

Making united states closer together than it ever was before back the war, and the result of the Civil War is the reason for that.

WW2

WW2 was one of the reasons the Great Depression ended. World War Two gave jobs to thousands, if not millions, of people in the U.S. Soldiers were paid and some sent money home, men too old to be in the army replaced the men that were at war, and women worked in factories to build airplane's, ships, tanks, etc.

WWII created much needed jobs in factories involving the production of war supplies. It jump started us out of the Great Depression and boosted the stock market. The second world war helped us become the strongest country we are today. By mobilizing the unemployed, the economy began too boom once again.

WW1

Previously, the US was somewhat isolated - from Europe - by the Monroe Doctrine. Interference in World War I effectively ended this policy, paving the way for the US's rise to a full world power. There's also the point that the US benefited economically from the war. By not joining the war until 1917, the country was supposed to be neutral, and therefore able to trade with both sides if the materials traded weren't directly related to war (i.e. food, textiles, etc.). Of course this helped them, because other countries were limited in their trading partners by their alliances. Finally, the war was not fought on American soil; and americans lost relatively fewer men than other major Allied countries because of the time of their entrance into the war. As a result, the US gained enormous prestige as a leading world power despite its minimal losses.

Beneficial Acts and Laws Established

Sherman Anti-trust Act

I. Wages and Hours Worked

Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay - Fair Labor Standards Act

Wage Garnishment - Consumer Credit Protection Act

Worker Protections in Agriculture - Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act

Child Labor Protections (Nonagricultural Work) - Fair Labor Standards Act - Child Labor Provisions

Child Labor Protections (Agricultural Work) - Fair Labor Standards Act - Child Labor Provisions

Workers with Disabilities for the Work Being Performed - Fair Labor Standards Act - Section 14(c)

II. Safety and Health Standards

Occupational Safety and Health - Occupational Safety and Health Act

Mine Safety and Health - Mine Safety and Health Act

Worker Protections in Agriculture - Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act

Child Labor Protections (Nonagricultural Work) - Fair Labor Standards Act - Child Labor Provisions

Child Labor Protections (Agricultural Work) - Fair Labor Standards Act - Child Labor Provisions

III. Health Benefits, Retirement Standards, and Workers' Compensation

Employee Benefit Plans - Employee Retirement Income Security Act

Black Lung Compensation - Black Lung Benefits Act

Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation - Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act

Defense Base Compensation - Defense Base Act

Family and Medical Leave - Family and Medical Leave Act

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, the first and most significant of the U.S. antitrust laws, outlawed trusts and prohibited "illegal" monopolies. The act applies to both domestic companies and foreign companies doing business in the United States. A trust is a relationship between businesses that collaborate through anticompetitive agreements to gain market dominance. Trusts cut prices to drive competitors out of business. "Illegal" monopolies are those that can be shown to use their power to suppress competition. A monopolist has the power to dominate markets—the ability to set the price by altering supply.

Womans Suffrage

American women's efforts to win the vote were significantly influenced by both the Civil War and World War I. The organized suffrage movement was in its beginning stages in 1861 when the pressures of the Civil War forced activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to choose between concentrating their energies on such activities as organizing fundraisers to support Union troops or focusing on suffrage laws and property rights for married women. In World War I the choice was the same, although the context and the response were different. In August 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. Partly as a result of the war, all American women finally received the right to vote.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford wanted to develop a reliable, inexpensive car for the average American market. His success with this venture came with the introduction of the Model T Ford to American consumers on 1st of October 1908. Ford managed to retain the car as affordable for everyone by employing new and revolutionary mass production methods, with completely interchangeable parts. When first introduced, the Model T cost only $850, and was available only in black.

Although only 11 cars were produced in the first month, by 1914, the assembly process had become so streamlined that it took only 93 minutes to assemble a car. Improved assembly line technique and volume brought the price of the Model T down to about $300 by the 1920s. This made the technology available to a much wider range of "common people", and enabled more people to enjoy the benefits of quicker, easier transport.

Transcontinental Railroad

The Transcontinental Railroad created a Nationwide transportation network that united the Nation. This network replaced the wagon trains of previous decades which became useless. It allowed for the transportation of larger quantities of goods over longer distances. This was especially helpful for the industrial north at the time. While the nation was still divided due to the Civil War, the transcontinental railroad helped unify the nation eventually making it a super power. Commerce increased between the states allowing over 50 million dollars worth of cargo to be shipped every year from 1869-1879. Goods from Asia and raw materials from the West were shipped to the East faster than ever. The West began to catch up with the Eastern way of life as many more people could now move west and the products of the manufacturing boom were shipped to the West.

Manhattan Project

Spurred by the fear of Hitler the Manhattan Project was devised. It was the code name for the US government's secret project that was established before World War II and culminated in the development of the nuclear bomb. The idea of forming a research team to create a nuclear weapon was endorsed in a letter than Einstein sent to Franklin Roosevelt, the president of America at the time. This was in 1939. In 1942 Enrico Fermi, a physicist, successfully controlled a nuclear reaction in his reactor. A month after the first bomb was tested, two nuclear weapons were exploded over Japan, at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The End

These events all played a large part in establishing America as a super power.

Events That

Tracing The rise of U.S.A. to Super Power Status

By Martin Ciuraj

Date 15/12/2012

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