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Consumer spending comprised 68% of the U.S. economy in 2018, while its labor share of income was 43% in 2017. The U.S. has the world's largest consumer market.
In 1878, Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp and on October 14, 1878, Edison filed his first patent application for "Improvement In Electric Lights".
1 The United States was concerned about renewed European colonization efforts in the wake of Latin American independence movements.
In 1889, in Chicago’s West Side, on Halsted Street in the middle of an immigrant neighborhood in the Nineteenth Ward, <u>Jane Addams</u> and her college friend, <u>Ellen Gates Starr</u> established the most famous of the settlement houses, Hull-House. Rapidly, it became the model for others houses. <u>Based on that experience, she did valuable recommendations for social work with immigrants</u>: 1. Add American culture to the immigrants’ native cultures, not to replace them. 2. Provide vocational instruction in sewing, basket weaving, millinery, embroidery, crafts, cooking, and dressmaking for women. 3. Provide health, food, legal and clothing assistance. 4. Offer English, American citizenship and culture classes. 5. Give prominence to immigrants' children through multiple programs in kindergarten classes, boys' and girls' clubs, reading groups, art and drama, college extension courses, along with public baths, a labor museum, a gymnasium, and playground.
