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The 2nd Industrial Revolution
The Second Industrial Revolution was a phase of rapid industrialization. Advancements in manufacturing and production technology enabled the widespread adoption of preexisting technological systems such as telegraph and railroad networks, gas and water supply, and sewage systems. The enormous expansion of rail and telegraph lines after 1870 culminated in a new wave of globalization. New technological systems were introduced, such as electrical power and telephones. -
Oil
Standard Oil Co. Inc, Was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established by John D. Rockefeller as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refinery in the world of it's time. It ended in 1911, when the United States supreme court ruled that Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly. Oil became a huge production for kerosene, gasoline, automobiles, and machinery. -
Electricity
After many experiments, first with carbon filaments and then with platinum and other metals, Edison returned to a carbon filament. The first successful test was on October 22, 1879, it lasted 13.5 hours. Edison continued to improve this design and on November 4, 1879, filed for U.S. patent for an electric lamp using "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". This was the first commercially practical incandescent light. -
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The Great Migration Of Immigration
During the period of mass migration, more than 20 million immigrants entered the U.S. Mostly from Europe and Asia, Many settled in cities such as New York, Boston, and Detroit, where textile, peddling, and automotive industries promised employment. -
The Statue Of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States. The statue was proposed by the French historian Edouard de Laboulaye to commemorate the Franco-American alliance during the American Revolution. Designed by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, the 151-foot statue was the form of a woman with an uplifted arm holding a torch. -
The National Woman Suffrage Association
The struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office. The first international women's rights organization formed, the International Council of Women (ICW) in which later American woman Suffrage Association groups united to form the The National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) -
How The Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis, The city editor of the New York tribune, author and photographer publishes "How The Other Half Lives" graphically describing the squalor of the New York slums. -
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Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the U.S. The main objectives of the movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in the government. They sought regulation of monopolies (Trust Busting) and corporations through antitrust laws. Many progressives supported prohibition of alcoholic beverages, but others out of a religious motivation. At the same time, women's suffrage was promoted. -
Steel
Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company started by Andrew Carnegie, in order to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century. The company used the Bessemer process to produce steel. The subsequent sale made Carnegie one of the richest men in history. Steel was a huge production for stronger brides, railroads, and sky scrapers. -
Theodore Roosevelt become's President
The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt began on September 14, 1901, when he became the 26th President of the United States upon the assassination and death of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909. -
Assassination Of William McKinley
William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. He was shaking hands with the public when Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot him twice in the abdomen. -
The Hepburn Act
The Hepburn Act is a United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction. This led to the discontinuation of free passes to loyal shippers. -
The Meat Inspection Act
An American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat related products being sold as food, and ensures that meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization that formed to fight prejudice, lynching, and segregation, and to work for the betterment of people of color. -
New York Triangle Shirt Waste Factory Fire
New York Triangle Shirt Waste Factory Fire in New York City was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city. The fire killed a total of 145 workers and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers. -
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson became the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party. Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential election made him the first Southerner elected to the presidency since Zachary Taylor in 1848. He also led the United States during World War I, establishing an activist foreign policy known as "Wilsonianism." He was a major leader at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919, where he championed the proposed League of Nations. -
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World War I
World War I broke out when an Archduke Of Austria, Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated. The war fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, between the Central Powers and the Allies, beginning on July 28, 1914, and ending on November 11, 1918, with the collapse of the Central Powers. The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Germans officially ending the war. -
The Jazz Age
Founded in New Orleans by African Americans. A blend of blues and ragtime which associated in ballroom dances. -
Woman's Suffrage
The 19th amendment was passed which granted women the right to vote. -
Automobiles
By 1920, there were over 8 million registrations for cars. The 1920's saw tremendous growth in automobile ownership, with the number of registered drivers almost tripling to 23 million by the end of the decade. -
Fashion
The 1920's is the decade in which fashion entered the modern era. It was when women first abandoned the more restricting fashions of past years and began to wear more comfortable clothes like short skirts and different hair styles. These styles are also known as flappers. -
Radio
Many early stations were started by newspapers worried radio might replace their newspapers. 8XK became KDKA in 1920. KDKA received the first federal license and began broadcasting on November 2, 1920. Its signal covered much of the country. Entrepreneurs set up stations primarily with the goal of selling expensive console radio sets that the whole family could listen to, or which restaurants and shops would buy to attract customers. -
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The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was the period of Western society and culture that occurred. It sustained an economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the U.S emphasizing the era's social, artistic and cultural dynamism. The economies saw rapid industrial growth, accelerated consumer demand, plus significant changes in lifestyle and culture. New technologies, especially automobiles, moving pictures, and radio, brought "modernity" to a large part of the population. -
The Immigration Act
A United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States as of the 1890 census. -
Television
By the 1920s', when amplification made television practical, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems. On 25 March 1925, Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London.
