American History 5/30/2003 Inventors and Industrialists ImmigrationProgressivismThe Spain-American War

InventorsEli Whitney (1765-1825)

Inventor of cotton gin

mass production of firearms

InventorsThomas Edison (1847-1931)

carbon telephone transmitter (1877)

phonograph (1878)

lamp with a carbon filament (1879)

IndustrialistsAndrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

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)

IndustrialistsJohn D. Rockefeller (1839-1937)

Standard Oil Company

He was a religious man and had an

interest in philanthropy.

IndustrialistsHenry Ford (1863-1947)

Ford Motor Company

mass production of automobiles

Immigration1840-1860 Immigrants from Ireland and

Germany

1860-1896 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

ImmigrationEllis Island (1892-1954)

an entry point to the United StatesHostility against immigrants

violent anti-Chinese riots (1876-77)

The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

The Reed-Johnson Immigration Act

(1922)

MuckrakersJournalists and writers who attacked the

widespread abuses that abounded in business and politics.

Ida M. Torbell History of Standard Oil

CompanyUpton Sinclair The Jungle

ProgressivismThe progressive reformers struck at the

excessive power of corporate wealth by regulating railroads, limiting monopoly, and raising corporate taxes.

Theodore Roosevelt supported progressivism.

ProgressivismWoodrow 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 (1863-1951)

New York Journal

Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911)

The Evening World

The Spain-American WarThe 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)