American History Since 1877 - HIST 122 Resource Guide

American political party; the oldest continuous political party in the United States...

The name was first used by Thomas Jefferson's party, later called the Democratic Republican party or, simply, the Democratic party. The name reappeared in the 1850s, when the present-day Republican party was founded.

In U.S. history, political party formed to promote public control of the means of production and distribution. In 1898 the Social Democratic party was formed by a group led by Eugene V. Debs and Victor Berger...

One of the two major political parties of the United States in the second quarter of the 19th cent...

movement during the first quarter of the 20th cent. whereby the immigrant in the United States was induced to assimilate American speech, ideals, traditions, and ways of life...

Racial discrimination or racism involves treating people differently, often unfavourably, because of their nationality, their skin colour, or their religious belief...

In U.S. history, a broadly based reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th cent. In the decades following the Civil War rapid industrialization transformed the United States...

Systematic manipulation of public opinion, generally by the use of symbols such as flags, monuments, oratory, and publications...

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people..."

The Spanish-American War, waged in Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico from April to August 1898, was the result of a combination of a severe and prolonged political crisis in Cuba and the increased desire of late-nineteenth-century America for overseas expansion. By the time the conflict was over, the United States had acquired a small empire and the status of a world power.