Reconstruction,westward expanison, industrialization, and immigration/urbanization?

Question

How did those impact the shaping of American identity after 1865?

Answer 1

Reconstruction:

- 13th Amendment: Slavery abolished

- 14th Amendment: Discrimination based on race = illegal (regarding jobs, rights, etc.) . African Americans are now citizens.

- rights later limited by Jim Crow Laws and KKK

                                  

Westward Expansion:

- Americans begin to move into the West

- California Gold Rush

- Native Americans kicked off their land

- buffalo herds depleted by shooting games

- Homestead Act: gave Americans free land in the West in exchange for settling it

Industrialization:

- products now cheaper

- assebly line introduced

- hard labor for immigrants

- child labor

- regulation of factory standards

- child labor laws

Immigration/Urbanization:

- American becomes a country of immigrants

- "ghetto" communites of different races (not same meaning as today)

- small tenement apartments b/c immigrants were poor

- cramped living environment

- immigrants lived in cities b/c were cheaper and easier to get around