American History: Outlines: The Era of Expansion and Reform

This resource, a speech by Woodrow Wilson to Congress on April 8, 1913, gives a great review of how the United States transformed from from a rural country to an urban one. It includes a review of industrialization, new inventions, suspect politics, and the expansion west. A great speech the encapsulates the fifty years between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the new century.