HIST206 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Protestantism, American Protective Association, Collective Bargaining
14 Apr 2016
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1894 set out her journey to america from russia. During the 1880s 5 million immigrants came to the united states, twice as many as the previous decade. Late nineteenth century america is oten called gilded age (term applied to late nineteenth-century america that refers to the shallow display and worship of wealth characterisic of that period. ) Between 1870 and 1900 the united states transformed itself from an agricultural naion, a naion of farmers, merchants, and arisans, into the world"s foremost industrial power, producing more than one-third of the world"s manufactured goods. Subsitute machines for workers skewing the balance of power in the work place. Things that eased middle-class life by the early twenieth century: electric lights, appliances, ready-made clothing, store-bought food. Thomas edison"s development of a pracical electric light bulb and electric generaing system 1879. Elihu thomson a high school chemistry teacher from philly bought.
