Discuss the forces toward the development of a dominant culture in the United States.
What will be an ideal response?
Opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and emergence of New York as the financial and corporate capital of an integrated industrial complex stretching from the Northeast to the upper Midwest. Defeat of the South and the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments that established national citizenship over state citizenship. Development of Theodore Roosevelt’s “new nationalism” that provided the intellectual foundations for an activist national government. Passage of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which permitted a degree of homogenization of the population. Development of radio and television, which nationalized politics and popular culture. The automobile and interstate highway system that made the country internally mobile. The Great Depression, World War II, and the onset of the Cold War, all of which increased the need for a strong centralized national government
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a. model
b. infographic
c. diagram
d. object
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