The Second Industrial Revolution took place between 1870 and 1914. Urbanization and territories that were being expanded fueled the Second Industrial Revolution. Transportation‚ factory production‚ and various other industries caused the United States be a producer of one-third of the world’s industrial services output. Many inventions from these industries were interconnected because of the technologies in the Second Industrial Revolution. The revolution effected the world by these new or improved
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The 1870s-1900s was a great era for the government and as well as the people. The farmers‚ however‚ did not have well-running businesses due to manufacturers hitting a huge growth rate‚ railroad companies and banks abusing them‚ as well as overproduction. There was‚ in a way‚ agricultural depression. Farmers began to over come this by forming the Populist Party. Farmers were seeing monopolization and a shortage in money becaue of the government’s decisions. In document G Leading Economic
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Thursday‚ January 16‚ 2014 Matt TA mondays 10-11 wheeler 102 graduate seminar room Chapter Study Outline [Introduction: Sherman Land] The Meaning of Freedom Blacks and the Meaning of Freedom African-Americans’ understanding of freedom was shaped by their experience as slaves and observation of the free society around them. Blacks relished the opportunity to demonstrate their liberation from the regulations (significant and trivial) associated with slavery. Families in Freedom The family
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industrial advancements (limited to North and West‚ South stagnates). The country became one of the leader economic countries in the world. Boom largely based on speculation related to the railroad construction → this led to two profound depressions (1873-1879;1893-1897). Steel was needed to make the railroad‚ also land and labour to make it. Wealth was unequally distributed: only 1% of the population was rich and millionaire (Andrew Carnegie‚ John D. Rockefeller). Ulysses S. Grant He was a
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CASE 17 THE GRAND CANYON RAILWAY One interesting feature of the southwestern United States is the area known as the "Four Comers." the only place in the United States where four slates meet at one point. Within the 130‚000 square miles of the Colorado Plateau in this region lie many wonders of nature. The plateau contains eight national parks‚ twenty national monuments‚ as well as numerous other nationally designated areas and huge tracts of national forests. This wealth of natural features and
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to agriculture. Perhaps the most important advances were John Deere’s steel plow (which made it much easier to break the thick and heavy soil of the area) and barbed wire (which could keep livestock out of fields). Also‚ according to Document A‚ in 1870‚ the production of wheat was 254 million bushels‚ cotton had a production of 4‚352 million bushels and 1‚125 million bushels of corn were produced. By 1900‚ the production of wheat‚ cotton and corn had increased to 599 million bushels‚ 10‚124 million
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Period:3/us history February 26‚ 2013 How did westward expansion transform the nation? In the early 1800’s‚ Americans pushed steadily westward‚ moving even beyond the territory of the United States. They traveled by canoe and flatboat‚ on horseback‚ and by wagon train. Some even walked much of the way. American merchant John Jacob Astor created one of the largest fur businesses‚ the American Fur Company. His company bought skins from western mountain men. These adventurers were some
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and reuniting after the Civil War. In 1865‚ four years of brutal deconstruction in the Civil War came to an end‚ 600‚000 American soldiers lost their lives. Four million enslaved African Americans were emancipated. The south was laid to waste; railroads‚ factories‚ farms‚ and cities were destroyed. Abraham Lincoln was elected president during that time. Abraham Lincoln knew once the states confederacy were restored to the union‚ the Republicans would be weakened unless they put an end to being
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beginning was a nation of farmers. But by the late nineteenth century‚ people were leaving the farm and moving into the city. It was around this time that the farmers saw threats to their way of life. The farmers were being pushed around by the banks‚ railroads companies. They had good reasons for agrarian discontent. The documents show the validity of the farmer’s complaints‚ especially on bank mortgage rates and the gold standard. The Populist Party or People’s party grew from agrarian uprising that
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There is no question that the Industrial Revolution had an enormous impact on American society between 1870 and 1940‚ but the question is what kind of an impact did it have during this period. The overall effect of the Industrial Revolution turned out to be a positive push towards modernization in America. As Stephen Gardiner‚ a British architect and writer during the 20th century‚ said‚ “The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization
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