Thomas A. Edison created some of the most important inventions ever like the light bulb. All he need was just power and he worked with power plants too. The Age of Invention was at the end of the nineteenth century.
The concept of economies of scale is that the cheaper the product the ore of the product is sold. Assembly line production was how a factory functions, it requires stations. A monopoly is know to be the control of a complete industry. Horizontal integration is when several smaller companies form one big company. This one is illegal. Vertical integration is when one company buys out all the little factors, companies. Andrew Carnegie based his work off of Charles Darwin and it was later called Social Darwinism. Carnegie was known to “preach” the Gospel of Wealth.
Manufacturers cut off costs by hiring immigrants, women, and children. The middle class was allowed to live in cleaner neighborhoods by mass transportation, which is just the transportation railroad lines, cars, etc. Black and Latino immigrants usually lived in the same neighborhoods, which came to be known as ethnic neighborhoods. Political bosses had political machines, which were community services, but the bosses did it for their benefits. The Knights of Labor, which were activist, started losing popularity because of their leader, Terrence Powderly, had several unsuccessful strikes. After a while a new group emerged led by Samuel Gompers. It was called the American Federation of Labor and it helped get equality in the labor issues. Another person that did well for the laborers was Jane Addams. She founded a settlement house, which helped immigrants learn English. Due to people learning English, the public began reading popular novels and newspapers.
Sharecropping was popular among blacks because it was convenient among the poor. The whole system of renting land was called the crop lien system. Ranching and mining was also a growing industry. Because the railroad was created, people and products could be transported much quicker. The Homestead Act and the Morill Land Grant Act. The Homestead Act was when the government would give certain people land so they can cultivate it, build a home and live on it. It proved to be good for the economy. The Morill Land Grant Act set aside land and provided money for agricultural colleges.
Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison were presidents that we hardly remember because they were weak. The Interstate Commerce Act set up a committee to supervise railroad activities and regulate unfair practices. At this time, woman’s suffrage became an important political issue led by Susan B. Anthony. That led to the American Suffrage Association.
The Grange Movement began because of the “silver and gold” debate. Because the Grangers died out because they had no money, then the Farmers Alliances replaced them. The farmers alliances were much more successful than the Grangers because they began the People’s party and they began the populist movement. The populist were backing up the democratic candidate, William Jennings.
Despite the Senate and the House debating about this issue the McKinley Tariff was still imposed. Because the nationalism amount was increasing, so did American production. The United States was exercising imperialism when they took over another country due to the ambitious idea of expansionism. The United States tricked Japan and eventually annexed Hawaii. In the treaty of Paris, Spain granted Cuba independence and ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States.
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