1. American History 5/30/2003  Inventors and Industrialists  Immigration  Progressivism  The Spain-American War

2. Inventors  Eli Whitney (1765-1825) Inventor of cotton gin mass production of firearms

3. Inventors  Thomas Edison (1847-1931) carbon telephone transmitter (1877) phonograph (1878) lamp with a carbon filament (1879)

4. Industrialists  Andrew 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)

5. Industrialists  John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) Standard Oil Company He was a religious man and had an interest in philanthropy.

6. Industrialists  Henry Ford (1863-1947) Ford Motor Company mass production of automobiles

7. Immigration  1840-1860 Immigrants from Ireland and Germany  1860-1896 More immigrants from eastern and southern Europe (Italy, Poland, Greek, Russia, Hungary) and Jews from these countries

8. Ellis Island in 1933

9. Ellis Island received thousands of immigrants

10. Immigration  Ellis Island (1892-1954) an entry point to the United States  Hostility against immigrants violent anti-Chinese riots (1876-77) The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) The Reed-Johnson Immigration Act (1922)

11. 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

12. 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.

13. Progressivism  Woodrow Wilson supported many progressive measures. “ The New Freedom ”  The Federal Reserve Act (1913)  The Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)

14. 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

15. 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)