Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 3, University of Wurzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut), course: Englische Literaturwissenschaft, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper will deal with how American culture changed and grew near the end of the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution, the American Civil War - which ended up with the abolition of Slavery - Reconstruction Era and much more historical and political occurrences, stamped the United States as a nation - the nation as we know it...