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"The New America: The Transformation from Monroe Doctrine, Pan-Americanism to Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism" tells the story of the major events and historical changes that occurred in the United States from Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson, sorting out the beginning and end of the Westward Expansion Movement, Southern Reconstruction, the Antitrust Movement, the Grange Movement, the Free Silver Coin Movement, the Counter-Reformation Movement, and the Muckraking Movement. In addition to focusing on the old political parties in the United States - the Republican Party and the National Party, this book also tells the story of the rise, rise and decline of Populism and the People's Party. By describing the construction of the Panama Canal, the balance of US-British relations, and the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, it reveals the transformation of the United States from the Monroe Doctrine, Pan-Americanism to Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism, and shows the difficulties and twists and turns of the United States' growth into a world power.