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By Rodney P. Carlisle

ISBN-10: 0816071780

ISBN-13: 9780816071784

the 1st a long time of the 20 th century have been characterised via technological developments. leader between those used to be the alternative of horse-drawn cars by means of the gasoline-powered motor vehicle, which necessitated the advance of a national infrastructure of paved highways and filling stations. The racial panorama of the US was once altered in addition by way of the exodus of enormous numbers of African americans from the agricultural south to such towns as Chicago, St. Louis, and manhattan. whereas America's participation in international warfare i used to be constrained as a result of a long neutrality coverage, the clash produced a shift within the country's morals that formed either well known and political tradition in the course of the remainder of the century, exemplified by way of the ratification of the nineteenth modification in 1920 which granted girls the proper to vote.

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