The growth of cities also had a big part of the transformation of the United States in this time. Before this United States was mainly a farming country most people lived out in the country. But throughout the 19th century this changed and turned into a urban and rural living with more Industrial and Manufacturing Goods and less of a farming country. Many of these new industrial jobs were picked up by new immigrants coming from foreign countries. …show more content…
Immigration had a large impact on the United States at this .
With new immigrants from all of the world coming in to Ellis Island to find a new life in the United States with the growing nation in the growing East Coast cities many immigrants had the chance to take up a new jobs .the new surgeons in the 1880s the immigrants took up a lot of the new industrial jobs. Russian farmers found jobs tailoring to vacuums assembled cars Italian Farmers found nude jobs in Baltimore factories polish farmers became steelworkers. with the incoming immigrants it increased the United States population by 25.5% according to the last census taken in 1880 the approximate that a total of 10 million European immigrants settle in the United States between 1860 and
1890.
Industrial painting was a big part of the United States in this time. With the ever-increasing number of factories this created more jobs and more labor less people went to farm anymore people from Europe and farming communities came to the cities to find a job in the factories. By the end of the Civil War which of the heart labor in the factory of was replaced by machines creating more efficient and more time conservative for productivity. With the prices of American goods going up and all the new jobs it was a new determination between the rich and the poor in America lives to better them self.
The Homestead Act. U.s. government with the Homestead Act gave away or two little no cost 270 million Acres of public land 10% of the total us was given away for free to 1.6 million homesteaders most of the homesteaders West Mississippi. But the new owners of these lands had to buildings and dwellings on the land four the next five years and grow crops submit proof of residency and require improvements to the location of the Land. The price of this new land was a $1.25 per acre.
Now come towards the end of the frontier the US government have of transforming United States with new railroads industrialization new citizens and immigrants new cities. With open land developed and ready to be moved onto. This marked the end of the frontier. I do disagree with the census bureau because although the us grew and expanded a lot in this time have always continued to expand our country.