In chapter 11, the main idea of this chapter is modernization. The South was an old-fashioned region, but they arose during the years leading up to 1840. It changed rapidly since the war of 1812. While Great Britain and the American East overturned the economics, America was creating a new kind of economy and society. The effective production of cotton by the new reorganized South was a fundamental aspect of the emerging national market economy. New changes happened in the North as factories replaced craft shops and cities eventually replaced towns. The brand-new economy and technology created fantastic opportunities. During this time some of the most successful entrepreneurs such as William Henry Ashley made immense profits from their fur …show more content…
Americans at that time had many different responses to the upsetting changes that had been taking place as the nation modernized and expanded. A range of economic classes responded by creating their own cultures and by familiarizing themselves with different plans for dealing with anxiety. Other citizens chose vicious protest while others chose passive resistance. Some Americans looked to Haven for solutions and others to earthly utopias. A new America was formed being more socially, politically, intellectually and culturally modern. The new generation emerged that clasped greedily at the opportunities offered by new economic and cultural arrangements. The expanding of the media made more people attentive to the issues taking place nationwide. This obtained more people into politics. After the presidential election, Americans came to believe that the West would provide the solution to the problems that were made by new conditions. In short term, this nation led to an exciting race by Americans toward the Pacific. Different visions about how the West would solve the Nation's problems soon led to the growth of crisis. The author wants the reader to understand how we had many benefits from the changing of the economy, but it eventually caused problems. I believe this was a time America had made many changes to advance America's modernization. America was advancing faster than normal. In the end, we still had
During the years between 1920 and 1960, America saw change in many aspects of life. The United States was a part of two major wars and a crash of the banking system that crippled the economy greater than ever seen in this country’s history. Also the country had new insecurities to tackle such as immigration and poor treatment of workers. These events led to the change of America lives socially, economically, and politically. The people of America changed their ideas of what the country’s place in the world should be. The issues challenging America led the country to change from isolation to war, depression to prosperity, and social change. The threats to American way of life, foreign and domestic, were the changing forces to the
Although the South produced the huge amounts of cotton needed, and exported it as a primary product to the rest of the world, it did not lead the way in industrialisation-this was dominated by the Northeast. What America lacked was manufacturing efficiency and as the Historian J.G.Rayback explains the war made 'Americans profoundly aware of other areas besides their own; in the post-Revolutionary period they made a vigorous effort to increase their knowledge of the entire nation and to take advantage of its limitless opportunities.'
Last week we talked about the North during 1815 to 1860, this week we are going to explore the South during 1815 to 1860. The situation between the North and the South are very different during 1815 to 1860. People in southern America were live depend on agricultural (plant cotton), as the cotton production increased cause the cotton economy rise meanwhile the demand of slavery also expanded in the North. In contrast people in northern America are more industrialized, they experienced industry revolution and abolished slavery. How was the cotton economy created in the South? Starting from the year of 1815, cotton has become the most valuable export in the United State.
After the war, the American people made the change from "old" ways to "new" ways. Many factors, such as new technology, fundamentalism, new looks and church led to tension between the old and the new. The 1920s were a time of conflicting viewpoints between traditional behaviors and new and changing attitudes.
Americans established a new social identity of trying to allow more men the ability to climb the social ladder and being given more opportunities, but still experienced problems of the
The country was broken into two prominent factions: the north, and the south, that adhered to two different lifestyles. On one hand, the north was favored by climate that was indicative to small scale, subsistence farming that provided enough for a family. The north, in addition to small scale farming, was also the center for industrialization and infrastructure within the country. The north’s economy was based on manufacturing and shipping, leading to more industrialized cities and factories. Also, the north had abolished slavery since the early 1800’s, and thought of slavery as an evil that was to be eradicated.
“In 1840, the total value of manufactured goods produced in the United States stood at $483 million; ten years later the figure ad climbed to over $1 billion; and in 1860 it reached close to $2 billion” (Brinkley, 289). American businesses and its economy boomed because of the North being more industrial, the South was still a farmstead now. The North was becoming more of a society then the South and growing in new
An ongoing sense of sectionalism between the growing North and traditional South was created due to the drastically different economies. At this time, the North became a manufacturing and commercializing empire due to it’s technological advancements and abundance of resources. After the creation of the cotton gin, an increase in manual labor was needed in order to further carry out the South's agricultural driven
The antebellum era (also referred to as the plantation era) between 1800’s to 1860 was a period of slave driven farming, marking the economic growth of the south. During this period in 1815, cotton was the most valuable traded produce in the United States and by 1840, it was more valuable compared to all other imported and exported goods combined. In 1860, one year before the Civil War, the South was predominantly reliant on the sale of agricultural products, such as tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton estimated at 5,344,000 bales, to a worldwide market. while the southern states generated two-thirds of the world's cotton supply, the South had little industrial capability (manufactured good estimated to the value of$156,000,000), consisting of an estimated 29 percent of the railroad tracks or 14484.1km, and only 13 percent of the nation's banks. The South attempted slave labour in manufacturing, but were mainly content with their agricultural economy. Their delay in industrial expansion was not the result of any integral economic disadvantages, there was a vast amount of wealth in the South, but it was mainly bound to slave labour. In 1860, the financial value of slaves in the United States surpassed the participated value of all of the land's railroads, factories, and banks combined. the day before the Civil War, the value of cotton was at its peak, the Confederate aristocrats were confident that the significance of cotton on the world market, especially in England and France,
In America’s pastime, there were many conflicts that continued to help shape America. Citizens were becoming more aware and concerned about how America was managed, as conflict was becoming a regular misfortune for the country. Events such as progressivism, the roaring twenties, and the stock market crash may have seemed like a negative time in the United States at face value, but the overall impacts and effects helped establish innovations that still positively influence the lives of citizens today.
The atmosphere of America during the pre-Civil War period can be describe as a time of great changes and distress. Remnants of manifest destiny resided as a fraction of the common belief. The desire of wanting further developments and utilizing more land reached its highest potential. At the same time, a revolution occurred in the North making a shift from the agricultural work to a market based economy. The North now less focused on expanding are more focused on business, trade, and service. On the other hand, the South with the new invention of Eli Whitney 's cotton gin made gathering cotton more efficient than ever before. With the uprising growth of the cotton industry, the Southerners wanted more land to make a larger sum of profits. The South dissatisfied with the territory of land they possessed now has a high hoped to acquire more land through the ideal of expansionism.
Almost one hundred and fifty years after the birth of the United States of America, the country and its people stepped unabashed into the modern age. Following years of gloom and war, the public desired change. Though it took some years after the close of World War 1, the United States began to evolve. With high tariffs, federal tax cuts, and the increase of mass production among other things, America’s economy began to grow rapidly. Economic growth occurred simultaneously with social and cultural growth and these factors brought WW1 America toward the modern age.
With the economic system, the south had a very hard time producing their main source “cotton and tobacco”. “Cotton became commercially significant in the 1790’s after the invention of a new cotton gin by Eli Whitney. (PG 314)” Let
This essay will examine the rise of “modern America”, there were economic, religious, and aspect of life changes took place and it was greatly changed the Americans society’s perceptions, specifically, the north and the south. The rise of “modern America” was greatly motivated immigrants to come to the United States for economic opportunity, industrialization in the North after the civil war created new businesses and job regulations, and the demand for social changes; all of these factors shaped America socially, politically, and economically.
At the turn of the century many things were happening that would affect America in ways that would have never been expected. The 1900-1940 era would have truly been an exciting time to live in. Over these four decades Americans would face some of the