What impact did Bessemer Process have on manufacturing?
Andrew Carnegie, revolutionized steel production making it cheap/mass produced.
What impact did free enterprise system have on big business?
Limited government involvement in business. Increases supply plus demand and businesse competiton.
Henry Ford
maker of first automible model t car
Andrew Carnegie
maker of mass steel production
JP Morgan
banker, mos powerful investor in Edison
John D Rockfeller
controlled 90 percent of all oil in U.S.
16th ammendment
goverment collects income taxes
17th ammendment
direct election of senators by people
18th ammendment
prohibiton, right to alcohol
19th ammendment
womens voting rights
Teddy Roosevelt
President of U.S. advocated for conservation of natural resources led to national parks service.
Ida B. Wells
advocate for anti-lynching, co-founder of NAACP
W.E.B. Dubois
co-founder of NAACP, advocated for equal rights of blacks
Upton Sinclair
exposed meat packing industry, led to food regulations
Intiative
allows citizens to propose new laws
Referendum
vote on proposed law
Recall
enables citizens to remove elected offical
Jacob Reiss
exposed extreme poverty in New York Slums
Panama Canal
built by President Roosevelt for quicker navy route. Panama rebels took over columbia and Panama agreed to let U.S. build canal.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
“he who rules the sea, rules the world”
influenced increase in sea warfare
WW1 - year, cause
1914-1918
Trench Warfare, assasination of franz ferdinand, sinking of lusitania, zimmerman note
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Military
Alliance
Imperalism
Nationalism
Treaty of Versailles
last point was to form a league of nations,
15th ammendment
black men can vote
Great Migration
African Americans moving from rural south to north urban centers.
impacted Jazz, Harlem Renassiance
Great Depression
overconsumption, stock market out of control, credit culture
FDIC
federal deposit insurance corporation, FDIC insures corporation
WW2
1939-1945
caused by pearl harbor and global conflict
Flying Tigers
important in ww2 air combat against japanese