1. Industrialization and Progressivism

2. John D. Rockefeller

3. JDR Quotes “Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.” “Competition is a sin.” “Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.” “I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.” “I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.” “Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”

4. Andrew Carnegie

5. Carnegie’s Quotes on “The Gospel of Wealth” “I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.” “Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.” “The man who dies rich dies disgraced.”

6. John Pierpont (JP) Morgan

7. The Pullman Strike

8. Ellis Island

9. Statue of Liberty

10. Inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" —Emma Lazarus, 1883

11. Thomas Edison

12. Boss Tweed

13. Machine Politics “ I see my opportunity and I take it.” “I just get (housing) for them, buy clothes for them if their clothes were burned up, and fix them up till they get things runnin’ again. It’s philanthropy, but it’s politics too – mighty good politics. Who can tell how many votes one of these fires bring me? The poor are the most grateful people in the world…”  George Washington Plunkitt New York city party boss on machine politics

14. Theodore Roosevelt (TR)

15. TR and the Square Deal “The principles for which we stand are the principles of fair play and a square deal for every man and every woman in the United States…”

16. Robert LaFollette “Fighting Bob”

17. Tenement Life

18. Meat Packing and The Jungle

19. The Flat Iron Building

20. The Wright Brothers

21. Kitty Hawk The First Flight of Man (and Woman)

22. Yellowstone

23. Yellowstone (cont.)

24. Mark Twain