In a similar economic revolution, the colonies outgrew their mercantile relationship with the mother country and developed an expanding capitalist system on their own.The main economic advantage in the North was the fact that it was in a good trading location and had good ports. That is why the North was mainly a industrial area, producing lumber, ships, naval supplies, distilled materials, and was also a supreme area for the triangle trade. The ship building and naval industry led to stength in the fishing and waling and the area was good for furs. These colonies were soon angered at the mother countries attempt to prevent self-sufficiency with the Navigation Acts and Molasses Acts, which led to the economic revolution, slowly merging them slowly into more capitalist economy.…
The west provided foods and raw materials by fast and effective rail roads to the Eastern North. Inversely, North manufactured those raw materials and resold to the West whose settlers relied on manufactured goods imported from the north east. The construction of rail road and this mutual relationship, resultant of Industrial Revolution, linked those two regions very tightly and set apart from the Southern…
The economy of the North was through commerce, industry, finance and manufacturing. Hence, its economy was much more versified and many different jobs became available: farmers, merchants, millers, manufacturers, mechanists, etc. Since the economic activity was better and grew faster, the North became the most populated region of the States and therefore, more urbanized and industrialized than the South. Due to the fact that there were almost no slaves in this region, white population grew more here. Immigrants also settled in this region for the same economic reasons.…
Plessy was arrested for sitting in the white section on a train. He argued the arrest violated his rights under the 14th amendment and the law he broke was unconstitutional. The court ruled 8 to 1 that segregation laws were constitutional.…
Before the Industrial Revolution, cotton used to be sent overseas to be made into cloth in England using the machinery there, but now, America had to make their own materials. Factories were being built in locations all over the North so that America could make their own clothing. Factories were an invention which brought workers and machinery together in one place. The invention of factories attracted people looking for jobs such as immigrants from Ireland and escaped African American slaves from the South. As the North grew with the arrival of immigrants and African Americans, it became more urban.…
The four regions that constituted the U.S. at this time are the nation's major cities, the South, the North, and Trans-Appalachia. -The nation's cities were centers of commerce, trade and manufacturing. The artisans and apprentices of the 18th century gave way to factories and wage-based pay in the 19th century which caused urban life to radically shift toward a labor-focused rather than agrarian-focused lifestyle. In New York shoes and iron were top commodities while Philadelphia was a center for textiles. With agriculture becoming less of a focus, the gap between the lower and upper classes was widened between laborers and factory owners.…
Philadelphia has had a long standing immigration of Irish citizens. The highest immigration of Irish into Philadelphia however was during the 19th century. The central cause of this spike in immigration was due to the failed potato crop in Ireland, which later became known as the Great Famine. Over a million Irish people died of starvation, while nearly another two million emigrated. A large portion of this plight landed in America, primarily to the Eastern coast cities, because copious amounts of them were extremely poor. The Library of Congress explicates that the Irish “In the 1840s…comprised nearly half of all immigrants to this nation” (Immigration). The majority of these Irish immigrants followed the Catholic religion, while previous…
During the 1800’s, America had multiple relationships with other countries during that century. For instance, they had many problems with Spain, which led them to have to create the Pinckney’s Treaty. The reason that the were forced to due so was that originally, Spain was cutting off the US right to use the Mississippi river and deposit crops in New Orleans. The US was forced to take action, which ultimately enabled them to getting access to the Mississippi river and the port to New Orleans was opened once again.…
America in the 1800’s and early 1900’s was a place of great unrest. The westward expansion created a tenuous environment for pioneers and settlers with Native American tribes; and cities in the east started to explode as waves of immigrants began arriving to fine their “New World” American dream. The wealthy in the northeast, generally white Americans of English protestant ancestry, felt a sense of urgency and entitlement to maintain control of the social, political and financial power in America. These white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP’s) were seen by the masses of new immigrants as a cruel, unfair and closed group. However, those unique characteristics were what was needed for acceptance into “American” high society and politics.…
The Irish emigrated from Ireland to America at two separate times, during the 1700’s and again in the 1800’s. During the 1700’s the Irish that emigrated were the Ulster Irish, these were mostly Protestant and mostly from the northern part of Ireland. This group of Irish was originally from Scotland which was under English rule. In 1533 when Henry VIII separated from the Catholic Church, he enacted penal laws - laws directed against Catholics. Catholic owned land was seized and given to the English aristocracy.…
In the 1800’s the United States was booming and had many exports it shipped out to different countries around the world. The North’s economy was based upon industrialization; the building of ships, the…
In the 19th century, before immigration started booming, only a small percent of America’s population was Mexican. Mexicans were in the same boat as Negros; they weren’t treated with any American promise of equality, nor did any treaty or laws protect them. Ignorant Americans treated them as inferior because of their foreign customs and appearances. The Americans that rushed to California to mine gold in 1849 were accompanied by Mexicans, which they didn’t appreciate because the Mexicans were skilled miners and were profitable. Soon, the Mexicans, or “californios,” were prohibited from owning mines or skilled jobs.…
Immigration in the United States is a complex demographic activity that has been a major contribution to population growth and cultural change throughout much of the nation's history. The many aspects of immigration have controversy in economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants, settlement patterns, crime, and even voting behavior. Congress has passed many laws that have to do with immigrants especially in the 19th century such as the Naturalization Act of 1870, and the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, or even the Immigration Act of 1903 all to insure specific laws and boundaries set on immigrants. The life of immigrants has been drastically changed throughout the years of 1880-1925 through aspects such as immigrants taking non-immigrants wages and jobs, the filtration process of immigrants into the United States, and lastly, the foreign policies of the immigrants and their allowance into the nation.…
Time and time again, it has been noted that there is an immigration problem in the United States. Whether it be through legal or illegal means, there is always a problem. Samuel F.B. Morse believed that the Irish Catholic immigrants were part of a big conspiracy with the Roman Catholics, to take over the United States. They were nothing but danger to native Americans. It is a belief that many Americans shared during 1835, but held no real base of truth.…
South America as a whole was second only to the United States in receiving migrants during the 19th century, this openness steadily eroded. Various economic, social, and political developments over the course of the 20th century led to increasingly restrictive migration policies in the region. A series of economic crises affecting most countries in the region led to an up rise in emigration within and beyond South America. National governments in South America and elsewhere previously saw emigrants as potential traitors and took steps to disenfranchise and denaturalize them by obtaining their citizenship. This shift in perception is clear in the numerous laws adopted since the 1990s allowing dual citizenship and external voting.. The number of South America immigrants grew from 90,000 in 1960 to around 2.9 million in 2014. Also by 2014, their share increase to 7 percent of the nation’s 42.4 million immigrants. Of the total 11.6 million South American migrants worldwide, more than one third resided in other South American countries. In Addition, South American immigrant adults overall were older than the native- born population. South American immigrant adult( ages 25 or older) were much more likely to have at least a high school education than all foreign- born adults. Today, new laws are slowly and without conflict and detours, catching up with the very open public discourse toward migrants.…