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unskilled labors
During the late 1800s, immigrants were poorer and had to settle in factory towns to take the unskilled jobs that mass-industrial growth had created. Unskilled workers also found work as fruit and vegetable pickers on farms. The wealthy owned factories and had investments. -
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-born Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. ... Carnegie then devoted himself to philanthropy, eventually giving away more than $350 million. -
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Ulysses S Grant elected president
The United States presidential election of 1868 was the 21st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1868. In the first election of the Reconstruction Era, Republican nominee Ulysses S. Grant defeated Democrat Horatio Seymour. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
