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The newly emancipated blacks were given rights to vote, and because of this white's were unsettled. The Jim Crow laws were created to disable blacks from having the same rights as whites through poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses. Prominent African-American leaders like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois gained social status through different approaches to expand black's ability to become part of the white's communities. .
During The Gilded Age massive amounts of immigrants entered the United States, and some of these immigrants gained prominent political powers. Big business loved the immigrants because they were willing to work for less pay. Americans resented immigrants for this reason. Cities became very crowded and inner-city slums developed. The invention of the Cable Car and the Trolley allowed middle and upper class citizens to transit to work from the suburbs; here the modern American city began to take shape.
Near the end of the Gilded Age, the US started to become an international power. Throughout a large part of the twentieth century, the US played a large role in world affairs. The changeover really began in 1898 with the Spanish-American War, a war very much determined by business. Whether the business of selling newspapers through yellow journalism or in the interest in possible future trade and sugar interests in Cuba, the U.S had a large finger in world business. While the war began with the US effort to save the Cubans from oppression, the US did more than defeat the Spanish in the Western Hemisphere. In victory, the US took Spanish territories as American colonies. These colonies were put to use as coaling stations for Navy ships that would protect US trade. The election of Teddy Roosevelt in 1901 was another final step for the US to became a player on the international scene.
Most of what I previously recapped we had learned during our class, but it was interesting to read it from an author's view.
