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The american dream
was the national ethos of America and too the once that beileved to live off in U.S, which also includes the understanding of freedom includes a promise of prosperity and success.he idea of an American dream is older than the US dateing back to the 1600's, often in the 1930's authors usually wrote about the idealistic American dream. -
americanization movement
when schools started to open, and the american children came togethor to pledge under the american flag of america -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny video of understandingAs for the painting thst you see on your left; it is their to symbalize the "american proccess" basically influencing how some where eager to see how the U.S.A would be able to build up. By starting from the atlantic ocean to the pacific America saw empty land and thought it may have been optional oppurtunity and wealth, by moving west they thought it was a good chance to build up America and reveal its great nation; but soon to know they didnt know that the NA where the ones that lead first. -
Growth of Railroads
By bringing the railroad in a complete built, it brought a free way to be more social, bring the economy togethor and political changes at it's most finist at the time.( at the time America is only 50 years old).
-The railroads took much effort from the chinese and the white man that worked for a cent, native american's where erased by owned lands, but till this day we know that the railroads was the most important of of americas new begining, other then the Manifest Destiny. -
Settelment of the West
war of 1812 saw a massive migration of white settlers into the old northwest, the old southwest and the far west. between the 1800 to 1820's the american population nearly doubled and by the 1830's a quarter of the people lived west of the appalachains. Westward Movement was more easier to move by the government by moving the native americans even more farther west, by then Idiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Albama, Missiouri has been added then -
political corruption
Reform Act Calls for reform had been mooted long before 1832, but perennially without success. The Act which finally succeeded was proposed by the Whigs, led by the Prime Minister Lord Grey. It met with significant opposition from the Pittite factions in Parliament that had governed the country for so long (opposition was especially pronounced in the House of Lords). Nevertheless, as a result of public pressure, the bill was eventually passed. The Act granted seats in the House of Commons to lar -
John D. Rockefeller
was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897.[1]
Rockefeller founded Standard Oil as an Ohio partnership with his brother William along with Henry Flagler, Jabez Bostwi -
Andrew Carnegie
was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the highest profile philanthropists of his era; his 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated wave after wave of philanthropy.
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States with his very poor parents in 1848. Carnegie started as a telegrapher -
vertaical and horizontal intergation
Many a times, while gazing through the business daily, you come across the words “Vertical integration” or “Horizontal integration”. While some take it as a business gimmick; others do have but only a slight idea of what it is. In any case, as a regular business reader or as an entrepreneur, one needs to be aware about all the aspects of vertical and horizontal integration. Both of these relate to strategies that are made to grow your business but they differ in approach. And most of the times -
barbed wires
Fencing consisting of flat and thin wire was first proposed in France, by Leonce Eugene Grassin-Baledans in 1860. His design consisted of bristling points, creating a fence that was painful to cross. In April 1865 Louis François Janin proposed a double wire with diamond-shaped metal barbs; he was granted a patent. Michael Kelly from New York had a similar idea, and proposed that the fencing should be used specifically for deterring animals -
Homestead act
The Homestead act law that was assigned by president Abraham Lincoln. It was ment to be put their to the ones that would take other peoples lands without bringing up the whole debate over it, most took the freedom in advantage others took the risk in obeying the laws. -
boss tweded in the gilded age
The late nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries in America are often referred to as the “Gilded Age.” The origin of this name is usually attributed to Mark Twain who co-authored a novel entitled The Gilded Age. The term is metaphoric on several levels. It can be taken to reference an obsession with appearances. Unlike “golden,” which has positive associations of beauty and value, the word “gilded” carries connotations of cheap commercialization, shoddiness, and fakery. Twain’s novel is ab -
When immigration started
During the colonial Era and even after America gained independance, as for America being a coutry with open happy arms for the immigrants. Immigrants where left with nothing in their hands and less of what to expect when moving into America. Many Americans however saw immagrants differently. Difrenet Factons saw as the immagrants as a revanue Know Nothing" were threatened by immigrants.The restrictions ranged from the amount of people that could enter the U.S in one region to various screenings -
Culture assimilation
The culture of many immigrants that came to america had the domination of americans gradual change towards every culture that was introduced in America.Assimilation may involve either a quick or gradual change depending on circumstances of the group. Full assimilation occurs when new members of a society become indistinguishable from members of the other group. -
The gilded age
was characterized by rapid industrialization reconstruction, ruthless pursuit of profit, government, corruption, and vulgarity. After the Civil War, America was beginning to regroup as a nation. There were many other changes developing in the country. Industrialization was taking over the formerly agricultural country. The nation’s government was also in great conflict. Many changes occurred during the Gilded Age. These changes affected farmers, labor, business, and politics. -
Upton Sinclair and the factory system
"The jungle". Upton sinclair wrote a novel about workers in the factory. It was brutal, the money was to little and the system was as bad as the slavery run. -
political machines
The rise of a political machines, and the spoils system of the 1820's-through the 1860's. A spoil system is where to help a political party to win a election, it would give or her supporters. government jobs that others have also the other government workers are fired. -
automobiles
by the 1920s the automobile industry was beging to take off in the
Western Europe, the automobiles went after models made in western europe and the ones that where being made in factorys/basic running cars. when talking about who where the first to make the models; it is Karl Benz.But long before him, there were strange forerunners to the today's cars, including toys for emperors, steam-powered artillery carriers, and clanking, creaking British buses. -
The Dawes Act
Started of being the US-land grab of Native territorys. It is a act of law fare the dawes act of lawfare of the most effective impremenations of the colonial and imperialis strategy against indigenous people of divide- and conquer a strategy that combines political,military and economic tactics to gain power over another power by breaking it up into individual units. -
Federal Indian Policy
Originally the goal was to assimilate the Native Americans into the White culture. Children were shipped to boarding school, dressed in non-native clothes, forbidden to speak their language and years later retuning. The didn't fit either culture. The Dawes Act tried to make Native Americans farmers but resulted in the selling off of much of the tribal lands. The accounting for all the money held in trust is now the subject of a billion dollar lawsuit. Seems most of the money is missing. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The wounded knee was the conflict towards North American Indians and reperenatives of the U.S government.An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux. In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days to protest conditions on the reservation. -
trusts and anti trusts
Business and industry were undergoing enormous changes in the U.S. during the 1890s. The first class of multimillionaires had made their fortunes in the Civil War, and during subsequent decades they began to consolidate holdings in a number of industries with national and international reach. Among the most famous were Carnegie Steel and John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. -
The new inventions of the time
native americans introduced america to the medical resources we use today, also along with chewing gum, rubber balls chocolate and may others. Following to the cure finders of eauropes diseases of the time, many medicines where developed, and sent, and most where taken out of the natives without being shown that they where the ones that are responsable of making it. -
Teddy Roosevelt
was the 26th president of the United States, he has a high stadard of achievments and personality and he had a leadership of the progressive movement, by of 1900 however the economy was relatively mature It was no longer necessary to concentrate all resources on increasing productive capacity.Not all was well, however. There was urban poverty, poor working conditions, and high accident rates. The rich were getting richer faster than poor got richer. -
pure food and drug act
is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
the first assembly line
was a manfacturing process, back to when creating one thing was not so easy, manfacturing products to double was even more of a challange. At the time of 1907 Henry Ford announced his goal for the Ford Motor Company: to create "a motor car for the great multitude." At that time, automobiles were expensive, custom-made machines. making the Model T- no color but basic sturdy car. -
nativism
The rise of nativism in the 1920s was caused mainly by immigration. the massive influx of "new" immigrants scared most of the population. then after WWI Americans were even more afraid that immigrants from war torn Europe would leave to start new lives in America. they did not want the immigrants to take their jobs. but so many new jobs were being made available in this time period that it was innevitable. -
labor unions
any unions have won higher wages and better working conditions for their members. In doing so, however, they have reduced the number of jobs available in unionized companies. That second effect occurs because of the basic law of demand: if unions successfully raise the price of labor, employers will purchase less of it. Thus, unions are a major anticompetitive force in labor markets. Their gains come at the expense of consumers, nonunion workers, the jobless, taxpayers, and owners of corporation
