1) Fulton's Folly: It was a steamboat by Robert Fulton. He did not invent it as some credited him for, but he was the first to make a commercial success out of it. The boat carried paying passengers from New York up to Albany.
2) Tom Thumb: The Tom Thumb was a steam locomotive that was used to showcase the American potential to create engine to Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
3) The airplane: The airplane was a success, it was first used in WWI for combat, later people started to use it to transport mail. In WWII it was used as a mode of transportation. Later it was transformed as a common way of transport for all the people.
4) The Model T: The Model T was a car that was produced by Ford Motors. It was very common because it’s price and because of this middle-class Americans were able to buy it and use it was a way of transport.
Democracy, specifically direct or representative democracy, however what’s seen as “true democracy” is direct.
To avoid one person gaining all power - NO absolutism!
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Stephen A. Douglas was an American politician from Illinois, and the leader of the Democratic Party. He supported popular sovereignity, also called squatter sovereignity, which stated that each territory had the right to determine if they would accept slavery or not.
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With the end of the Civil War came a great transition into a mechanized and factory-based economy, which took workers away from the farms and put them into the factories. Many people saw this is corporate great, which was in some ways true--this led to the formation of many unions and workers organizations.
