McKinley easily defeated Bryan in a rematch in the 1900 presidential election. A financial bubble was fueled by an inflated stock market, which later led to the Stock Market Crash on October 29, 1929. By the late 1970s the economy suffered an energy crisis, slow economic growth, high unemployment, and very high inflation coupled with high interest rates (the term stagflation was coined). It is obvious that the peculiar disassociation of ownership from control of property, which characterizes the corporation, and the reduction of a progressively increasing number of real property owners to the status of wage-earners, create conditions not contemplated by the founders of the American Republic.”. I also tried to make it funny to keep people from getting carried away, which hasn't been as successful.Thanks, Steve. [58][59][60][61][62] Despite strong opposition from the Northeast, especially from Federalists who did not want to disrupt trade with Britain, Congress declared war on June 18, 1812.[63]. "The American people were hoodwinked into thinking they were declaring lawful independence from the Crown. The goal of the United States in this was to stop the spread of communism. [173], In the presidential election of 2016, Republican Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the United States. [29], A citizen of the United States is an "American". This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. Excluding the Native Americans, the 13 colonies had a population of over 2.1 million in 1770, about a third that of Britain. Revivals encapsulated those hallmarks and carried the newly created evangelicalism into the early republic, setting the stage for the Second Great Awakening in the late 1790s. Reconstruction began in earnest following the war. The Compromise of 1877 gave Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes the White House in exchange for removing all remaining federal troops in the South. [11] These apartment-like structures were often built into cliff faces, as seen in the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde. [264][265] The Affordable Care Act, passed in early 2010, roughly halved the uninsured share of the population, though the bill and its ultimate effect are issues of controversy. [117][118][119][120][121] As financiers and industrialists such as J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller began to amass vast fortunes, many U.S. observers were concerned that the nation was losing its pioneering egalitarian spirit. His United Farm Workers of America (UFW) faltered after a few years but after Chavez died in 1993 he became an iconic "folk saint" in the pantheon of Mexican Americans. New England became a center of commerce and industry due to the poor, mountainous soil making agriculture difficult. Pornography in the United States has existed since the country's origins and has become more readily accessible in the 21st century. Ironically, the greatest wealth in this country is still owned by the people but controlled by the corporations under the approving aegis of the federal and state governments. Maybe sitting in a corner and listening to New Age music would help. It's more like a tyrannical fascist totalitarian plutocracy, and these ideologies are accepted throughout the so called free world. [107] Large numbers moved into camps run by the Freedmen's Bureau, where they were given food, shelter, medical care, and arrangements for their employment were made. [25] The Second Continental Congress made the name official on September 9, 1776. Women obtained the right to vote in 1920, with Native Americans obtaining citizenship and the right to vote in 1924. Detroit wanted it because they could sell more vehicles, and Big Oil wanted it because they could sell more gas. Sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account. By contrast, religion plays the least important role in New England and in the Western United States. The Colonists did not win the Revolutionary War. A New Declaration of Independence. In the Fall of 2012, Mitt Romney challenged Barack Obama for the Presidency. New York City is home to the United Nations Headquarters. [122] The United States thus left its vast Asian colony, the Philippines, isolated and fighting a losing struggle against Japanese invasion and occupation. [252][253] The economic expansion came to an end in early 2020 with a sharp economic contraction largely caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which seriously affected the United States. @Erin Mellor: Hate to break it to ya, but that is NOT America's infrastructure. Politics is corrupt everywhere and the ones who drive it are the money moguls who have no concern for anyone but themselves. On September 9 of that year, Congress officially changed the nation's name to the United States of America. Large scale spending projects designed to provide private sector construction jobs and rebuild the infrastructure were under the purview of the Public Works Administration. @sarah-goodwich-1: How do you feel about humorlessness, Sarah? [76], Although the federal government criminalized the international slave trade in 1808, after 1820, cultivation of the highly profitable cotton crop exploded in the Deep South, and along with it, the slave population.