3-Americas

=Americas, 1750-1914=

=Political= =Economic=
 * Monroe doctrine secured Americas from European Imperialis
 * Spanish-American War, U.S. gains Puerto Rico,Guam, Phillipines, and Cuba
 * American Civil War 1861 - 1865
 * U.S. Constitution established in 1787
 * Latin American countries gain independence
 * Commodore Mathew Perry opens up Japan to trade
 * Panama Canal built from 1903 - 1914 to allow easier trade
 * U.S. shifts from agriculture economy to industrialized economy

=Religious=
 * U.S. grants freedom of Religion

=Social= =Intellectual=
 * Slavery condemned and abolished in the 1860
 * 25,000,000 Europeans migrate to the Americas to escape famine, oppression, or for more opportunities
 * Native Americans pushed off land by European settlers
 * Patriarchal society
 * Beginning of women's right

=(Technology)=
 * Steam engine, transcontinental railroad, automobile, asembly line, photography, telegraph, and many other inventions help improve society

=Near Geographic=
 * Louisiana Purchase gains 1/3 of U.S.'s current landmass.
 * U.S. gains territories in Alaska and Hawaii