The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern United States and the Western United States. As American wages grew much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants. The rapid expansion of industrialization led to a real wage growth of 60%, between 1860 and 1890, and spread across the ever-increasing labor force.
An issue with an aristocracy is that only elites would be making decisions. Meaning the common person would have no say or influence in how their government was run.
<em>The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km2) that centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and touched adjacent sections of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.</em>
Central High School was critical during the Civil Rights movement because it was one of the first high schools in the US where African-Americans enrolled in a previously all white high school. These students, who became known as the Little Rock 9, enrolled at Central High School for the 1957-1958 school year. This was just a couple years after the Supreme Court case, Brown vs. Board of Education, ruled that separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites are illegal.
Despite this Supreme Court ruling, Central High School refused to let these students attend. Dwight D. Eisenhower, president of the US, used federal troops to protect these students and to make sure they were able to attend school.
Students should visit this site because it allows them to see where, for the first time ever, the president used federal troops to escort students to school. Along with this, it represents how racially divided America was during the 1950's and allows students to see how far the US has come.
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The Berlin Blockade of 1948 to 1949 marked the beginning of the Cold War, the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 represented the high point of tensions and the opening of the Wall in 1989 represented the end of Cold War