America In The 19th Century

Department stores, Chain stores, and mail order's houses were how retail sales and distribution techniques of the late nineteenth century made goods and conveniences formerly enjoyed by city dwellers available to Americans in small towns and the countryside. Americans no longer had to make their own clothes but, now they had the leisure of picking and buying clothes from a department store. Due to chain stores buying in preparing food had changed. A new industry of packing and selling foods had been invented. The mass production and new development of tin can had inspired an industry of canned foods. Refrigerated railroad cars and iceboxes made it possible for perishable food items to be kept fresh. These developments brought a healthy improvement

Between the 18th -century the British colonies in North America transformed their colonial life and culture through Anglicization and Americanization. Anglicization was where the new colonies wanted to follow the British society. Americanization was where the new colonies wanted to follow their own original and self-governing rules and create a new nation. While both of these processes aided in shaping the new colonies, only one process transformed the colonial life and culture into what it was after the 18th-century.

America has been plagued with the “American Dream” since its citizens first started spreading out westward in search of wealth and fame. Along with this American ideal came the concept of being un-American and not standing for what was considered “true” American. With the emergence of Populists, Progressives and Radicals came a vast difference between what was thought as American. All groups claimed to be trying to make the US a better place however each differed vastly in their ideas of going about it. During the age of uncertainty between 1890 and the 1920’s a new movement called the Progressives emerged in parts of the Unites States. They emerged as part of a long tradition of reform aimed at correcting the issues of the country.

Since the creation of the United States Constitution, the many leaders of our nation took different roles in trying to attain perfectionism for their country. From the federalist views of John Adams to the democratic views of Jefferson, America was experiencing the endeavor that was being a young nation in the midst of the 19th century. The emergence of John Quincy Adams in 1820 started an “Era of Good Feelings” with exceptional political advancements and economic achievements. While Jackson’s democratic views were not always what were expected, during his presidency, the country grew national and world attraction. Through periods of boom and bust, political and economic changes in America undeniably helped reshape society between the years 1820 and 1848 with the emergence of new and innovative advancements.

AAmerica began as a small struggling nation, with each citizen desiring an opportunistic way of life. To achieve this way of life, many changes needed to be made. Different people with distinctive ideas came together, and although there was conflict, they made great changes politically, socially, and economically. Each aspect changed America tremendously in a variety of ways. Analyzing each specific change can determine the extent in which America has changed for better or for worse.

Toward the latter part of the 19th century, bustling America, in response to the trends of industrialization and urbanization that characterized its Gilded Age, began its new century by entering into a new historical/political epoch that came to be known as the Progressive Era. This distinctive period in history (spanning from the 1890s through 1920) found progressives seeking to use the American federal government as a means of change through social, political, and economic reforms. Politically, the passage of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments are evidence of the success of progressive reformers, despite the fact that some of the new laws failed to create desired social changes. The efforts of the progressives were mainly effective when it came to social reforms related to worker’s rights and child labor, but less productive in attaining improved civil rights for African-American citizens. In addition, the government was, to a large extent, successful in the establishment of economic reforms to aid the working class, such as those enforced by Woodrow Wilson’s “Triple Wall of Privilege”; however, President Roosevelt’s famous anti-trust efforts were ultimately not far-reaching enough at the time to eliminate all problematic corporate monopolies and related corruption.

During the mid eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century the United States of America experienced some difficult times throughout the country. It first had to watch it’s own nation split apart during the Civil War, also the U.S. had just fought for it’s own independence from Great Britain not even a hundred years ago. Then shortly after the war and the reconstruction area began, later moving to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the United States witnessed the Great Depression. Another dark period in U.S. history that virtually affected every one in America at the time in both positive and negative ways. Furthermore, the group that experienced some of the challenging times, both socially and economically during the Great Depression

During the 1800's America was figuring out how to run a nation through trial and error. During this period of time America faced hardships with foreign powers and with in its self, but the sweet victories made them all worth it. In the 1800's America learned to stand on its own, and became the strong nation it is today.

Many different forms of government can be put into place that will dramatically influence the culture and lifestyle of a particular society. The influence of republicans was significant in helping to shape colonial America. Republicans grew and helped to transform colonial America exponentially in the years 1764 through 1812.

Low wages , prohibition , Jim Crow Laws , and the idea that America was becoming a more and more a consumer culture are just a few events that took place during these crazy hectic times. In the 21st century, some of the same problems as back then continue to be a big deal. America still deals with immigration, some say that minimum wage should be raised, and there’s a lot of controversy with politics. Similarly In the progressive era companies faced problems on how to keep profits high and cost down, Muckraking was a common practice in bashing the government and immigrants’ weren’t getting the fair treatment they should’ve been not even with the help of unions . (Crash Course US

From approximately 1800 to the 1920’s, the United States of America as a whole experienced an immense amount of growth in multiple senses during what we, in the present day, refer to as the Industrial Revolution. Newly expanded industries such as the steel and railroad industries became large shareholders in the grand scheme of American wealth, allowing some entrepreneurs and business owners to fill their pockets at a significantly quicker speed than those of the former agricultural-based society of early America pre-Civil War. However, the new age of machines and factories in America brought along with it a series of mixed results, both positive and negative; furthermore, whether or not the good outweighs the bad was and still continues to

Throughout culture, we see a sudden desire to reform our society into a better generation. In the late 1900’s there is an urge to revise the status quo back to the “gilded age”. With the previous ending of this golden era, citizens were going through change. These changes included many crises that the citizens were not fond of. There were documents being released with included articles in favor of white people, photos of immigrant’s families, and details over groups forming to better society. Looking through these documents, one can imagine the flaws this generation was going through and the sudden push going back to the old era.

Can there be two different economies in one single country? Looking at America during the 1800’s, one can prove that can be a diverse economy – depending on one’s region. There is a vast difference between the modern, industrial economy of the North, and the rural, antebellum setting in the South. The North embraced modernization in its economy, while the South tried to delay it eternally.

The 1920s was a huge time period for the United States. Modern technology such as automobiles, radios, and advertisement had taken America by storm. Rural areas were on the decline. American cities had attracted not only rural and urban citizens, but also people from all over the world. In America during the 1920s, citizens struggled with accepting other races and ethnicities into their widely populated country.

The first half of the 19th century was a time of sweeping changes. With transportation, and factories increasing, North America was in for a major upgrade. While all of those things are going on, the two regions that made up the growing nation was the North and South. These two sides were very different in their approach of lifestyle which would soon lead to conflicts. Two issues stood out more than others as the North and South headed towards civil war. One reason increase of tariffs and taxes the Congress placed on the south to ship goods to other countries. The other was the idea of keeping slavery in the country. The tariffs placed economic inequality between the northern states and the southern states.