The Growth of Industrialization in the Late 1800’s In the late 1800’s the United States underwent a major transformation as a country‚ in becoming the world’s leaders in industrialization. During the early 1800’s the industrial growth was steady but slow and most American companies were still relatively small. It wasn’t until after the Civil War that the United States experienced a huge growth in big business due to innovative new technologies and services most importantly the Transcontinental Railroad
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Chapter 3 -5 test notes I. Industry and transportation - the development of technology began to transform life in the United States in the early 1800’s. The industrialization of the United States changed the nation for decades. Improving roads There was an effort to improve overland transportation. Some states operated turnpikes(roads in which users had to pay a toll to travel on) The money from the tolls was supposed to go toward improving the roads and to ease travel. The country’s
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Before Industrialization‚ it was a time of great distress for people. Towns had to shut down at night because it was impossible to light the night with the kerosene lamps and candles they had. People had to stay in town because they couldn’t go anywhere because cars were too expensive. People had to risk their lives in month-year long journeys across the U.S. in search for jobs. But after Industrialization‚ all those worries that people had went away. Industrialization had a positive impact on the
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Discuss the major factors that promoted the development of industrialization in the United States during the late nineteenth century. New power sources facilitated American industry’s shift to mass production and also suggest the importance of new ways of organizing research and innovation. In 1869‚ about half the industrial power came from water. 2. Discuss the development of the railroad business during the last half of the 19th century in the United States and explain how the railroad companies
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Reconstruction to industrialization in the Western United States Instructor: Laverne Y. Peralta History 105 July 21‚ 2013 There were many events that took place from Reconstruction through the widespread industrialization in the Western United States. During the twelve years that Reconstruction lasted‚ freed slaves were trying to be integrated into normal life. The Freedmen’s Bureau bill‚ helped with recognizing free labor‚ schools for the newly freed persons were being highly oversee
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through which people communicate their beliefs‚ values‚ and morals. Inserting one’s own culture in place of someone’s pre-existing culture is the basis of ethnocentrism. People have repeatedly become victims of deculturalization‚ especially in the United States‚ and by analyzing this ethnocentrism one learns the importance of sustaining different cultures in society. There are many methods of deculturalization‚ such as segregation‚ isolation‚ and forced change of language. When the content of curriculum
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The United States was undergoing a revolutionary transition during the late 19th century and early 20th centuries. This transition went from an economy based on agriculture to a major industrial power‚ which was all thanks to the process of industrialization. This period in time was a rapid pace of economic development resulting from significant alterations in society‚ which brought both favorable progress and sizable obstacles to overcome. There were countless benefits of industrialization which
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Jessica Blough His 104 Exam 1 November 2‚ 2014 The Civil War affected the United States in many ways‚ some good and others bad. Reconstruction was one of these events‚ it was one of the most stormy and contentious eras in history. During this era it witnessed America’s first experiment in interracial democracy. The fate of slavery was fundamental to the meaning of the Civil War‚ so the politics of Reconstruction turned on the position the former slaves would assume in the reunited nation. During
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The telephone is a remarkable invention. The telephone was the new and improved telegraph‚ of the 18th century (Encyclopedia.com‚ 2000). The telephone‚ believe it or not‚ affected the United States in multiple different ways‚ good and bad. The telephone had ran most to all postal services out of business because people liked calling better than going through the trouble of writing and sending out a letter. Also‚ when it came to private business‚ calling was much better than mailing a letter. But
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GEOGRAPHY INDUSTRIALIZATION DEFINITION The process in which a society or country (or world) transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services. Individual manual labor is often replaced by mechanized mass production and craftsmen are replaced by assembly lines. Characteristics of industrialization include the use of technological innovation to solve problems as opposed to superstition or dependency upon conditions outside human control
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