Through the entirety of this course, I have been able to expand upon my current knowledge of American historical events. My knowledge on post-civil war America was not very broad because I had mainly focused my studies on the world war era’s. However, many of the defining events that made America the nation it is today happened after the civil war and before the creation of modern America. This was a time of cultural and political change for the country. The events that were the most influential and important would have to be Westward Expansion, the Industrial Revolution, and the Roaring Twenties.
The westward expansion was one of the defining times in American history. Americans from the colonial area decided to take a leap of faith and attempt