I would say the Internet. The Internet has helped to connect people digitally around the world. It provides quick sources of entertainment and information. If we want to know what's airing at the nearest cinema we can just look it up. If we want letters to be sent quickly that can happen in a second.
This depends on the century you are referring to. If you mean the transition from the 1800s-1900s, then perhaps the most important invention was the telephone, the locomotive or electricity. All of these inventions transformed the way we communicated with one another, lived our daily life, and travelled.
If what you mean is the transition from the 1900s to the 2000s, then the most important invention is most likely the Internet. The Internet has allowed us to unite the world in a way that has never been seen before. Information can travel faster than ever, communication has been revolutionized, transactions have become extremely simple and our world has become digital.
I honestly think it was a moving period in American history. African Americans, though treated inhumanly, chose to respect the lives of others and held marches, and non-violent protests against white law. Meanwhile, you have a band of white Americans creating the Klu Klux Klan to invoke terror and use violence to scare the Colored Americans into doing what they want, to remain below them.
After the 1800s - or after the Second Great Awakening - abolitionist wanted immediate freedom of all enslaved peoples as well as their acceptance into US society.
<span>Unions had strong support following WW II, but public opinion of unions have shifted. People started to believe unions benefits management and not the worker. Politicians also use anti-union rhetoric in attempts to gain votes.</span>
