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Horatio Algar > > > >  Louisa Alocott
 * Was a famouse writer in the early 20th century talked about the rise of man from rag to riches, bringing back the idea of the self INDUSTRIAL SUPREMECY : Horizontal and vertical intergration means to either merge with another party or company vertical is when they take over and run their company independantly. Buisnesses deveopled to industires very fast due to these buisness ethics. The govt stepped in and kept these large buisnesses from taking out small buisnesses completly by allowing these buisnesses to have a chance.
 * Henry Ford
 * The automobile were one of the most important technilogical advances this country had eever seen. Now Charles and Frank Duryea were the first to build an automobile with the engine design from german native Nicolaus August, their car was introduced to america in 1903. Not to long after that Henry Ford introduced the first of his soon to be known, "famous cars". He was the first to beegin mass production on a much larger scale. The assembly line that he had created split up the labor so that differnt people or machines had a specific job and once it went all the way down the line it would be complete. This lowered prices on ford Cars tremendously, the average price for a car in 1914 was around $950 and by 1919 -1920 the price was down to $250. So that tells you a little about Henry Ford he wanted to make things more effecient less expensive and alot better then anyone else. He was born july 30th 1863 in michingan, he died in his hometown at the age of 84.
 * The development of cars made a big impact on the cultral life of americans along with the landscape of their land. In 1895 american highways consisted of maybe 4 cars but about 20 years later there were around 5 million.
 * Horatio Alger
 * these novels that he wrote were so popular because he inspired the people who were less fortumate and wanted to succseed in a noble way he deffinatly influenced the thiunking of many people in the time period. He caught peoples attention in the heat of a revolution people wanted more out of things and when he showed people that they ccould do it to the books sold off the shelfs. An estimate of Algars book sales comes close to 100 million books either that he wrote or that had his name on it were sold.
 * A women ditermined to ablish slavery and advance the rights for women.

~ Emperiailism~
 * Political Landscape
 * The groups mainly involved in the country at the time were Republicans, Democrats, and Populists
 * Americans stayed veryyy loyal to there party
 * Instead of the spoils system, the pendeition act, made fedral jobs more competitive.
 * their loyalty was most likely based on where that particular american lived ( someone in the south is more likely to go democrat the rebulican)
 * Presidential Elections 1884 -1896
 * 1884-88 Grover Cleveland won
 * 1888-92 Harrison wins because of controversy within the senante
 * 1892-96 Grover Cleveland won Regained senate
 * 1896-00 William Mckinley wins beccause of finacial advances
 * Farmers Allicance
 * The farmer alliance created the populist party because the farmers in america felt as if they werent be represented well enough
 * were able to get seats in congress and even had canidates elected into governments of states being senetors or governers
 * Idustrial nations domonating pre-idustrial or under developed countries/communites
 * Different deffinitions- Economic Influence, empire building , territorial expansion
 * 1) Motavations for expanding territory
 * Americans thought it would be vital to expand and find new areas becasue people in america we worried that their resources would dwindle or run out eventually. America also wanted to make money considering they were experiencing a depression and new jobs over seas could help boost the govt revenue and equal out the economy. A final reason for the expansion over seas was that america was spreading their democracy to different countries.
 * Examples of Emperiailism
 * Hawaii ( Econmomic resouces )
 * Vietnam ( Democracy )
 * Korea ( Democracy )
 * Iraq ( Economic Resources )
 * Samoa ( Spread Influence )
 * China ( Economically )
 * Philippines( political influence )

~ Spanish American War ~ Who
 * America declared war on Spain after attack on USS Maine
 * Teddy Roosevelt led charge up San Juan hill, ( rough riders )
 * Jose Marti Cuban rebel who destroyed american crops and made spain invade and send his people to concentration camps
 * George Dewey sucseeded in taking control of the philippines

What
 * The Spainish and American War caused by an attack on an American ship by the spainish. Which then resulted in the capturing of The Philippines, Puerto Rico,and Cuba

Where
 * Puerto rico
 * Cuba
 * Philippines [[image:http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pacioos/images/PacIOOS_region_map_370px.gif width="382" height="288" align="right"]]
 * Gwam- Taken from spain by America

When
 * 1894 (Wilson-Gorman tariff)
 * 1897 (McKinley becomes president)
 * 1898 (Spanish American War)
 * 1900 (Foraker Act)
 * Stating that military rule is to be replaced with a formal govt and America has the right to veto or amend any act
 * 1917 (Puerto Rico becomes part of America)

Why
 * Americans declare war on spain because of the attack on USS Maine
 * Jose Marti Destroys crops so that American troops will help with cubas independance
 * George Dewey destroys spainish fleet in spite of the recently declared war.
 * Tedddy Rosevelt in an effort to win the war he and his " cavalry " also known as The rough riders won the bettle of San Juan Hill

What is your thesis of United States history, 1781 to 1915? fROM 1781 to 1915 america has been demonstrating there power by making reforms and advances in its econonomy,cutlture, and political structure
 * Allan - FRom 1781 to 1915, the u.s has been advancing economically, politically, and culturaly, from a shattered group of 13 colonies to a vast empire stretching from the Atlantic to the pacific
 * **GROUP THESIS** - During 1781-1915 the history if the united states was marked by a time of enormous change and advancement that grew from a rural and harsh nation into a politically, erconomically, and culturally reformed world power.
 * Civil war
 * Spanish american war
 * Loiusianna purchase
 * Emperiailism
 * The removal of slavery
 * 2 party system
 * Political Growth
 * Industrial Growth
 * Economic Growth
 * Immigration
 * Capitalism

Themes and Topic Outlines

~ American Diversity ~

American Identity
 * Diversity in America is a theme because it is a topic of importance, considering in 1887 Henry Bowers founded the American Protective Association, a group that was commited to limiting the immigration in America.
 * Social class and the way you looked went hand in hand
 * Inner cities has closer houseing for middle class and low class
 * Outer portions of the city held bigger houses and higher classes of people lived there


 * The idea of America being labeled as a certain kind of country
 * such as where we stand politically, culturally, economically, and where we stand as far as our military