• A superb business leader
• started a company as oil refinery.
• acquired companies that supplied his companies.
• 1879 his company refined 90% of all U.S. oil.   

• Poor and Immigrated to the U.S. when he was twelve. 
• Founded his own company
• Rose to the top of the Steel Industry 

• Believed immigrants were the reason for no jobs, high crime, and strange illnesses.

• Oppose Immigration

• A group of volunteer cavaltry
• Athletes, Cowboys, and Ranchers

Progressives helped women make positive changes in society.

• Led the Rough Riders
• Became president after William McKinley 

• Not netral about having war with Spain
• Yellow Journalist 

laws passed by southern states to enforce segregation (or the separation of blacks and whites).

• An economic system
• private businesses run most industries
• competition determines how much goods cost and workers are paid.

Community service centers for people in poor neighborhoods who need education, skills training, and cultural events

When wealthy people give money to the less fortunate or poor for libraries, schools, universities, etc...

• The expansion of industry
• growth from natural resources and governmental support. 
• U.S. became a world power.

• Spread democracy

• spread Christianity gain 

• new markets and resources.

• Slavery became illegal (slavery no longer could happen). 
• The revival of Southern defiance. 
• African Americans can legally vote. 
• The South did many things to keep African Americans from having equal rights as whites.

• The spanish offended the U.S. 
• U.S. declared war on Spain. 
• U.S. thought Spain blew up the U.S.S. M.A.I.N.E.
• that was the last straw for the U.S.

Law that made it illegal to make a monopoly (trust)

• The expansion of industry. 
• largely agricultural
• leading industrial power in the world
• enormous growth due to natural resources and Governmental support.
• Bessemer Steel Process was a huge part
• Steel and Iron changed the world.
• Skyscrapers and railroads.
• Railroads made it easier to travel and expanded constantly.
• Electricity and the Telephone were also discovered

We built new cities and new technologies that helped improve the U.S. and the world.

• Progressives believed in helping people
• every problem had a solution in society. 
• The were an optimistic group
• helped the woman gain positive change in society. 
• Teddy Roosevelt made the square deal, to improve the balance of business, consumer, and laborer. 
• also tried to improve the environment.

• The South instituted literacy test and poll taxes to vote, 
• African Americans can't read or write 
• dont have the money to pay the poll