Government and Industry were Fully Established in the 19th Century of America

America had a huge industrial revolution in the late 1800”s. Many changes happened to our great nation, which factored into this. The evidence clearly shows that advancements in new technology, a large wave of immigrants into our country and new views of our government, helped to promote America’s huge industrial growth from the period of 1860-1900.

During the late 1800's, America grew to become one of the nation’s leading industrial nations. The first industrial revolution had changed its pace from working on factories to the advanced transportation in the west

The War of 1812 made the United States realize that they needed more industrial business because they had lost their trade relation with Great Britain. Their industrial business was centered more around the North and less in the South. At the end of the war, their trade relation got better, but the Government put tariffs on imported goods. Before the war, tariffs were at 7%, but it changed to more than 20% in 1816. The Tariff of 1824 barely passed the House of Representatives, but there was a tiny margin for it to slip through. While the North supported this tariff, while the South strongly opposed the tariff, because it benefited the North and the South didn't get any benefit at all. The tariff had raised to as high as 45% on certain goods

With the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, the revolutionary war was over, and the United States began the arduous task of rebuilding an economy held back by colonialism and destroyed by war. From the 1780s up until the 1810s, the economy was slowly growing and diversifying, however, the War of 1812 halted many of those advanced. The war ruined the United States economy once again, but it allowed it to grow and develop to new heights and become more prosperous than before the war with development of capital stock, population growth, higher prices for export, and a nation expanding to the west. After the revolutionary war, the United States began building the new economy.

As time passes and generations unfold the technological, political, and manufacturing industries are constantly advancing. Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States from 1801-1809. Thomas Jefferson’s ideology of the industrial aspects was vivid and clear that he was opposed to it. Jefferson wanted our society to remain an Agrarian society while producing raw materials in America and finalizing them in Europe. He directly relates to industry and the thought process of his plan in the “Notes on the State of Virginia” in 1781. Through the Notes on the State of Virginia, and several quotes regarding Jefferson’s thoughts on industry we see how Jefferson changed America for the future.

During the post Civil War period many capitalists took over and ramped up industry. There were also individuals who took industries and monopolized them. Many historians who look back at these capitalists who shaped the post Civil War industry argue about whether they should be viewed as captains of industry who developed large industry, or as robber barons who used industry and monopolies to achieve wealth and take advantage of the working class. This essay will show why they were captains of industry.

Prompt: What methods were used by industrialists to promote the growth of industry in America? Thesis: The success of Andrew Carnegie, Importance of oil and Social Darwinism are all methods that were used by the industrialists to grow the industry in America. Social Darwinism was created hoping for concepts of Survival of the fittest and natural selection to politics. He believed that those who were weak and not as strong were weeded out and those who were strong and successful, were best adapted to survive.

The “Era of Good Feelings” (1816-1825) marked a political period during president James Monroe’s presidency in which the disappearance of the Federalists enabled the republicans to govern in a spirit of harmony. This period is titled so due to nationalism, decrease in political strife, and economic growth post War of 1812. Although, Monroe managed to achieve his goal of national unity within the country, there were still issues that had appeared during his presidency. Debates over tariffs, foreign affairs, the national bank, and slave issues became much more evident during this time period. Following the War of 1812, people in America did not worry much about foreign affairs nearly as much as they did over American individualism and nationalism.

A major way that the federal government protected industry in America was by taxing imports to keep the price of the same product made in the United States cheaper. These protective tariffs have been used throughout history to protect US businesses. With his five part economic plan, Alexander Hamilton was one of the earliest advocators of economic nationalism which is simply a way of saying they implemented protective tariffs that shielded the American industry from foreign competition.

The article "Why in America" by Nathan Rosenberg, we learn how manufacturing was important impact on America during the nineteenth century. America was primarily borrowed the European technology and the rate of technical change increased. There were three major reasons why american manufacturing has increased rapidly. The three reasons of rapid increase of American industries were the increase of population growth, larger amount of natural resources, and specialized machines.

In the early to mid. 19th century, the world came to life with the introduction of machines that could create products in hours, compared to what it would take skilled craftsmen days to produce. These marvels began in Europe but soon found their way to the American shores. The very first textile mill was produced by an apprentice named Samuel Slater in 1790 after returning with the English secrets of the textile machinery still buzzing in his head (Wallace, 1985). Soon more factories began to rise up armed with the new technology. With the means to produce more products, railroads being built to ship vast amounts of goods between states and the mass amounts of wealth to be made during this revolution, what were once small rural farming towns

In contrast, the Northern part of the United states had an increasing industry the first half of the 1800s because of the spreading of manufactured goods. Firstly, the spreading of textile mills had significantly grown and expanded the Northerners’’ factories, transportation system, growing markets, and innovations of technical. The Northerners’ daily lives were indulged in farming, marketing, working, and factoring. The more they indulged in these things, the better their economy became. Merchants started selling interchangeable

Communication, transportation, and the trading of new goods changed the culture of the United States. Machinery for mass production, like the Spinning Jenny, the Iron mining industry and coal mining industries created a culture of constant communication, trading and commerce between U.S citizens. Textile Factories and other innovations in this time created various jobs for Americans and created tradeable crops for American to exchange with other countries. (Lec 12) With this, throughout the 1800s, the population of the United States grew to 31.4 million by 1860. (Lec 12). This shows the improvement of economic relationships within the United States.

War of 1812 and industrialization- The british blockade forced the united states to develop its own industries

Until the late nineteenth century, the United States was still an agrarian community. As factories sprouted to process the products obtained from agriculture and to manufacture farm equipment, there rose