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2 days ago · In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
5 days ago · More dynamic photos from the 1910s and 1920s reveal subway construction amidst tall buildings and people commuting to work. Another photograph even shows an excavated boat found during ...
5 days ago · The U.S. population nearly doubled between 1870 and 1900. Urbanization and immigration increased at rapid rates and were accompanied by a shift from local small-scale manufacturing and commerce to large-scale factory production and colossal national corporations.
4 days ago · The Mexican Revolution started in 1910; it alarmed American business interests that had invested in Mexican mines and railways.
2 days ago · First Balkan War. The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire.
5 days ago · In 1910, the Union’s march drew a crowd of a couple hundred. Then, a year later, a crowd of thousands. The repetition of annual events made the idea of women suffrage seem less radical.
4 days ago · Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The other group began in 1915 and has continued to the present.
