American History 5/30/2003 Inventors and Industrialists Immigration Progressivism The Spain-American War
Inventors Eli Whitney ( ) Inventor of cotton gin mass production of firearms
Inventors Thomas Edison ( ) carbon telephone transmitter (1877) phonograph (1878) lamp with a carbon filament (1879)
Industrialists Andrew Carnegie ( ) Carnegie Steel Company “ Rich men are ‘ trustees ’ of their wealth and should administer it for the good of the public ” in The Gospel of Wealth (1889)
Industrialists John D. Rockefeller ( ) Standard Oil Company He was a religious man and had an interest in philanthropy.
Industrialists Henry Ford ( ) Ford Motor Company mass production of automobiles
Immigration Immigrants from Ireland and Germany More immigrants from eastern and southern Europe (Italy, Poland, Greek, Russia, Hungary) and Jews from these countries
Ellis Island in 1933
Ellis Island received thousands of immigrants
Immigration Ellis Island ( ) an entry point to the United States Hostility against immigrants violent anti-Chinese riots ( ) The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) The Reed-Johnson Immigration Act (1922)
Muckrakers Journalists and writers who attacked the widespread abuses that abounded in business and politics. Ida M. Torbell History of Standard Oil Company Upton Sinclair The Jungle
Progressivism The progressive reformers struck at the excessive power of corporate wealth by regulating railroads, limiting monopoly, and raising corporate taxes. Theodore Roosevelt supported progressivism.
Progressivism Woodrow Wilson supported many progressive measures. “ The New Freedom ” The Federal Reserve Act (1913) The Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
The Spain-American War (1898) Anglo-Saxon virtue / the powerful race The newspaper wanted war William Randolph Hearst ( ) New York Journal Joseph Pulitzer ( ) The Evening World
The Spain-American War The U.S. was in possession of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines. With US Army assistance, Panama became an independent nation. -Panama Canal (1914)