Emerging World Power: 1890-1945

America's growth in the Gilded Age fueled a desire for more expansion. But, according to historian Frederick Jackson Turner, the frontier was closed. The West had been settled. Instead, America would turn outward. The reasons given were many: the need for resources, markets to sell US goods, international prestige and competition. By the early 1900s, America would officially be an imperial power, joining the ranks of other European countries and increasingly asserting itself in global affairs. The Gilded Age would also give rise to a new series of reform movements known as the Progressive Era, as middle-class reformers, journalists, immigrants, farmers, and politicians came together to promote different and sometimes conflicting ideas about what would improve American society and fix some of the ills of the Gilded Age. The Progressive movements would be punctuated by America's entry into WWI and would seemingly end as the Roaring Twenties began, a new age of contradictions: prosperity and poverty, modernity and traditionalism, new and old. The decade would come to an almost literal crash with the Stock Market Crash and the start of the Great Depression, ushering in an unprecedented age of government involvement in the economy that would forever change the way Americans viewed the federal government. Finally, WWII would solidify America's role as a global leader and superpower and create the conditions for the new Cold War world.

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