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The way in which we live, how we work, what we wear, the variety of the foods we eat, and how we travel from place to place can all be attributed to the Industrial Revolution. This time period, which occurred during the 1700’s to 1800’s, was a “Game Changer.” (Modern World History, n.d.). This movement took Great Britain from a primarily agrarian society to an urban society. The movement spread quickly especially in places like the New World (America). America would reap the benefits of the new…

Slavery and the Making of America This book is written by James Oliver Horton. James Oliver Horton was born on March 28, 1942, in Newark, New Jersey. Son of The Oliver and Marjorie Horton and married to Lois E. Horton, mother and father of James Michael. James went to State University of New York Buffalo, graduating with a Bachelors degree in 1964. Horton served 6 years in the U.S. Air Force who ranked captain. In service he joined with University of Hawaii and received a M.A. in 1970. James…

America: Divided by Class It’s all about the money—who hasn’t heard of the Rockefellers, Carnegie, or the Vanderbilt’s? The Gilded Age was a time when wealthy elite amassed their riches and built their opulent mansions while their workers often lived in squalor. Three distinct social classes emerged as life in America changed from rural to urban and immigrants poured into the nation. The Gilded Age is a term coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), a book…

5’s work environment, the teams formed in my workplace are more transitory. They develop to address a specific task or project and dissolve when completed. Each department might be viewed as a team and there are a few sustaining teams focused on library-wide initiatives. A few of the qualities described by Manning and Curtis (2015) that registered with me included “active listening, clarity of assignments, shared values and norms of behavior, and commitment” (p. 237). All of the…

America wasn’t always known as the World’s Leading Superpower. It wasn’t until the Cold War that America was coined this name for its’ powerful military and flourishing economy. However, this title wouldn’t be possible if it weren’t for the Industrial Revolution. As a result of the modernization during the years 1865 to 1900, America advanced into a dynamic and urbanized nation of faster transportation, new machinery and technology, and an increased population. Throughout the many changes, both…

During the Gilded Age the wealthiest 2 percent of American households owned more than a third of the countries wealth, while the top 10 percent owned roughly three fourths of it. This was due to big names such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Vanderbilt, and many other business leaders who capitalized from the newly industrialized economy of the Second Industrial Revolution. This was the first time in American history where we had a new class of the super-rich people, that…

Alabama, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Maryland, Wyoming, and Oklahoma. Some of the laws enforced included the segregation of: Education, Entertainment, Freedom of Speech, Health Care, Housing, Libraries, Marriage, Services, Transportation, and Work. Most of Jim Crow Laws were laws that prevented Whites and Blacks from interacting. Blacks couldn’t attend the same schools in some instances and other situations Whites weren’t allowed to…

African rhythms, work songs, chants and spirituals to America, which strongly influences blues and jazz (infoplease.com). Then in 1877, Thomas Edison invented sound recording. This invention will forever change music’s influence on society. By 1891, Carnegie Hall was built and greatly increased society’s appetite for music to infiltrate social events in large numbers. And at the end of the century, ragtime, a combination of West Indian rhythm and European musical form, is born (infoplease.com).…

high school in his early teens. August Wilson was a talented writer and when he was kicked out of his last school for supposed “plagiarism”, his teacher stating that a black boy could never write that well, he would spend all of his time at the Carnegie Library educating himself (Basil, 4). As an avid reader from a young age, Wilson would soon find a new love, and appreciation for the written word. During this time,…

Crawford, Michael Ch. 15: This chapter opens up discussing the era that took place after the Civil War. During the Civil War the southern States, also known as the Confederate States of America, attempted to break away from the northern states, better known as the Union, to form their own government. The Confederate states consisted of; Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, and South Carolina. President Lincoln was able to lead the Union to a victory over the Confederate…