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Intellect, Literature and Equality
Above is a photo gallery of important intellectual ideals, movements, and literary devices people used to make a difference in society in this era. Here are the topics mentioned in order:
- Gospel of Wealth - the idea that Andrew Carnegie coined, that you you are self made and that you have money to share. Don't waste it on petty things you really don't need, share it with the people who really need it and need it most.
- Women's Suffrage - a movement where women wanted their rights to vote so they marched and they protested and they fasted until they were given that equal oppourtunity.
- The History of Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell - this novel exposed the truth on Standard oil and its business practices, published in 1905
- The Bitter Cry of Children by James Spargo - an expose on the horrible working conditions children underwent, published in 1906
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - was actually meant to be an expose on the lives of immigrants in the United States but really made a stir in the meat packing industry, published in 1906
- "Yellow journalism" - around 1895, journalists would use catchy headlines to lure you into a useless article that had nothing to do with anything and had no research to back it up
- "Muckrakers" - around 1900, journalists who wrote about controversial topics to get a rise out of people and get them to act out
Important inventors of this time are shown in the slideshow above and truly changed society with their inventions.
In the slideshow we have:
In the slideshow we have:
- Andrew Carnegie - a Scottish-American industrialist who began the enormous expansion of the steel industry in 1901. He came up with the idea of vertical integration. Which is when many companies have a common owner where the companies make different products but the products all take care of one common need.
- John D. Rockefeller - an American industrialist and philanthropist who founded Standard Oil in 1870. He came up with the idea of horizontal integration that worked with the idea of merging with an equal company, in other words monopolizing an industry.
- J. P. Morgan - an American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector. He merged the Carnegie Steel Corp and several other iron and steel businesses to create the United States Steel Corporation.
- Thomas Edison - an American inventor and business man who invented the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the light bulb.
- Alexander Graham Bell - an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who invented the telephone.
- Jane Addams - a pioneer settlement worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and word peace who founded the Hull House.