A people and a nation

The Incandescent Light Bulb Invented by Thomas Edison in 1878 Provided a cheap, inefficient means of indoor lighting Used a vacuum and tungsten wire to prevent the filament from burning when an electric current passed through it Edison also devised a system of power generation and distribution improved dynamo and parallel circuit of wires provided electricity conveniently to a large number of customers Edison acted as his own publicist in 1880 at Christmas Edison illuminated Menlo Park with 40 incandescent bulbs in 1882 he built a power plant that could light 85 buildings in Wall Street Led to a boom in the electrical industry The Theory of Scientific Management attempted to increase production by timing workers? tasks and suggest ways to speed up their performance

Vigorous Reconstruction Congressmen who favored vigorous reconstruction measures argued that the war had broken the Union and that the South was subject to the victor?s will Radical Reconstruction was curtailed once Democrats regained control in the South planned for widespread societal reform wanted sweeping transformations of the entire nation black suffrage only loyal men were eligible to hold office the South would spend several years out of the Union until it had been fully democratized expand public education in the South confiscate land from whites in order to provide land for freedmen expand an activist Federal government lasted only a few years Freedmen and the Sea Islands freedmen and women most valued property ownership