Modern America (1890’s)
>Civil war (1861-1865)

Fredrick Jackson Turner
>Speech at the Chicago world’s tour fair (1893)
“And new, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.”

Modern Corporation
(Began in 1850’s) Charter from a state Capital- Sale of stocks Limited personal liability

Civil war Swift Meats Borden Dairy and groceries Carnegie – R.R’s and Steel

Andrew Carnegie wrote in 1886
“if I asked what important law I should change, I would say none the laws are perfect”
1860 | 1900 Number of Americans  31 mill | 70 Mill Manufactured Goods  2 bill | 11 bill Miles of Rail Roads  30,000 | 200,00 Iron and Steel Production  0 | World’s largest Number of Industrial workers2.7Mill (40% of entire U.S. Population )|13 mill (65% of U.S. Population)

America As A world Power ( the 1890’s)
>European “imperialism” v American Imperialism (trade economic advantage)
>from 1870-1900

America’s New Empire {18 Million square miles (1/5 of the earth’s land)~ 150 million people}

>The 1875 Economic Depression Overseas markets for American goods (unemployment) >Need to sell a broad 70 % U.S. cotton / 40% U.S. wheat /50% U.S. copper /15% U.S. iron steel / 16% U.S. agricultural equipment to find overseas buyers – U.S. State Dept – U.S. Army+Navy

Mikenly allowed Cubans to get their own government Platt Amendment
-Retains the right to allow us to maintain order
-they gave us a 99 year lease on Guantanamo Bay
-we would decide how much debt they would get into
-also took Puerto Rico from Spain

Asia
1895 Japan defeats china
China “curved up” into zones (took over the Philippines, Spanish American