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· Inventors: Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison

Alexander Graham Bell was best known for his invention of the telephone. He revolutionized communication as his interest in sound technology was deep-rooted and personal. Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America’s greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. In 1876, the US held a centennial exhibition to celebrate the country’s birth in Philadelphia. Thomas Alva Edison exhibited the automatic telegraph and Alexander Graham presented the first telephone.

· Robber Barons: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan

Andrew Carnegie was a steel manufacturer. J.P. Morgan, financier, and banker, John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, John Pier point financed railroads and helped organize U.S. Steel, General Electric and other major corporations. The robber barons faced criticism that they had too much power and was accused of manipulating the nation’s financial system for their own gains. The Robber Barons were the wealthy elite of the late 19th century. They consisted of industrialists who amassed their fortunes as so-called robber barons and captains of industry. Their contribution transformed the world and making America the world superpower.

· Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism involves the idea held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest”. In that, the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Examples are such as; The Nazis Social Darwinism applies to race while the capitalist’s belief is economic productivity and the Capitalist deny any comparison of themselves to the Nazis. People use Social Darwinism to justify racism, imperialism, social inequality, and eugenics over the past century and a half. 

· Great Migration

The Great migration defines itself about the migration of Africans and American from one place to another. Great Migration implies the relocation of over 6 million African Americans or black Americans from the rural parts of the South to the cities of the North, West, and Midwest from approximately 1916 to 1970. To migrate to the North to provide labor required in the industrial sector during the emergence of the First World War. Great Migration was the relocation or movement of millions of African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.

· Gilded Age

Gilded Age was an era that occurred during the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The Gilded Age was an era that involved rapid economic, industrial growth and increased political participation especially in the Northern United States and the Western United States. America became more prosperous and saw unprecedented growth in industry and technology during this era. The Gilded Age commenced from 1870 to 1900 and exhibit political participation. The era has rapid industrial advancement driven by technological development in manufacturing and transportation resulting in an expansion of individual wealth, immigration, and philanthropy. 

· Muckrakers

Muckrakers were a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and expose literature. The muckrakers provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States. The reform-minded journalists and writers in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s-1920s) who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in popular magazines. The contribution of markers influenced vital legislation that improved consumers and workers’ protection. 

· Booker T Washington and the Atlanta Compromise compared to the Niagara Movement 

Booker. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise compared to the Niagara Movement in ways such as follows; They had aims to fight for the black African Americans in the United States. They wanted the accomplishment of equality and not discrimination and racism. Washington holds that blacks are contributors of world market and should be satisfied with their hand production to enable the diminishing of social injustice and racial inequality in the US. The Niagara opposed Washington’s accommodation of segregation promoting liberal whites and African Americans to apply aggressive actions intended to terminate discrimination in the US. 

· President Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal 

President Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal was his domestic program, which reflected his three major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection. His domestic policies, promised the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. President Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal intended to promote an honest, fair, and just society of America. President Theodore Roosevelt of 1901 to 1909 promised to regulate operations of large corporations or industrial combination.