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The Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution caused great change and started it all from the invention of machines to do the work of hand tools to the use of steam, and later of other kinds of power, in place of the muscles of human beings and of animals, and the adoption of the factory system. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew was one of the captains of the industry and built the American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into one of the richest entrepreneurs of his age. Later in life, Carnegie sold his steel business and systematically gave his collected fortune away to cultural, educational and scientific institutions for "the improvement of mankind." -
John D. Rockefeller
John was the founder of the Standard Oil Companies and became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. Rockefeller was accused of engaging in unethical practices, such as predatory pricing and colluding with railroads to eliminate his competitors, in order to gain a monopoly in the industry. In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court found Standard Oil in violation of anti-trust laws and ordered it to dissolve. -
The Gilded Age
An era of intense partisanship, the Gilded Age was also an era of reform. Easily to mistake for corruption and capitalism due to growth and way trade was treated. The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As American wages were much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants. -
World War 1
A large scale world war that involved; Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan.The four years of the Great War–as it was then known–saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction, thanks to grueling trench warfare and the introduction of modern weaponry such as machine guns, tanks and chemical weapons. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. Soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers. -
World War 2
Just two decades after the last global war the Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million military and civilian deaths (with some estimates as high as 85 million dead). -
Rosie the Riveter
As the first american women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers during World War II, as widespread male enlistment left gaping holes in the industrial labor force. Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war ended once U.S. forced were withdrawn. -
Civil Rights Movement
Also known as the African-American civil rights surrounded social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African-Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South.
