Industrialization After Civil War

Industrialization changed the Northern section of America in unbelievable ways. Americans would gain more jobs in factories, mills and banks, city life was booming, and both woman and men being employed in the cities. Money revenue would be generated and profited in mass production. Transportation became easier with the production of making parts or materials to build roads, steamboats, and railroads. Industrialization would trigger people to become invertors. Inventors seek new ideas of everyday use products to be easier or improve the machines to work faster and longer.

The Industrial Revolution was of great importance to the economic development of the United States. The new era of mass production kindled in the United States because of technological innovations, a patent system, new forms of factory corporations, a huge supply of natural resources, and foreign investment. The growth of large-scale industry in America had countless positive results, but also negative results as well. Industrialization after the Civil War affected the United States in several ways including poverty, poor labor laws, and the condition of the people.

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.

Between 1865 and 1920, industrialization caused significant changes in many people’s lives. First, the development of a new railroad system help settle the west and made it more accessible to people. Second, public transit systems in big cities provided an outlet from congested cities. Last, the discovery of a method for transmitting electricity helped to light up our daily lives. I feel that these are three of the most important changes in people’s lives caused by industrialization.

Industrialization and urbanization that happened in America after the civil war, is a good manifestation that the country was moving along the right path. After the war, progress in terms of investments, industrialization and urbanization was inevitable. After the civil war in America, people from the south who had been displaced and the people who were free could now move to the west to work in the cattle drives, fight the Indians and also begin a new life as farmers. Social Darwinism philosophy was adopted, and everyone believed that the poor had the right to be rich. The paper will focus on the right path that the country followed in the feudalism period between 1865 and 1914 when the country became a feudal society based on the capital and not on the land.

During the Civil War, factories were built by the Union to defeat the Confederacy. After the Civil War, those factories continued to thrive which consequently led to the Gilded Age. “Gilded” meaning that something is wrapped thinly in gold, but doesn’t look good underneath. Industrialization collectively ruined the crop market, created monopolies owned by corrupt individuals, and restricted upward movement of American society. In response, industrialization had a negative impact on US society in the years 1865 to 1900.

Industrialization changed the lives of the people of this nation. By the late nineteenth century, with advances in technology, communication, and transportation, a new type of industrialization was formed, a global one.

After the Civil War, the nation witnessed two major social-economic movements: Reconstruction and Industrialization, which changed the country completely and made it one of the greatest industrialized countries in the world. However, it changed not only the country, but also, the society, its way of life and traditions.

The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in human history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. After the Civil War, industrialization took on an unpredictable change of events that had a major affect on improving American life.

The United States had a huge agricultural and industrial boom after the Civil war. A large reason for this was that from 1865 to the 1900’s the total population of the United States more than doubled. This large increase in the population meant that there were more people to aid in agriculture or to join the industry. A large portion of economic growth was concentrated in the Northeast, Midwest, and plains states, and many of them became urban areas full of technological advances. The South remained mostly agricultural like they had been before the civil war. Some states became technological leaders and New York State had nearly twice the industry in total. While the Northwest industrial system accounted for about 85% of the nation's manufacturing.

By the time of the Civil War, the technologies upon which the First Industrial Revolution was based were established in the United States. In the years following the war, the nation's industrial energies were focused on completing the railroad and telegraph networks of the North, rebuilding those of the South, and expanding those of the West. Once the devastating depression of the 1870’s depleted, the stage was set for the Second Industrial Revolution.

The second half of the nineteenth century after the Civil War is known as a period of Industrial Revolution and is described as a time of innovation, invention, and rapid growth. Also, the huge supplies of raw materials in the country and cheap labor especially from immigrants contributed to the Revolution. Other factors contributing to industrial revolution were the high taxes to imported good which favored the domestic manufacturers and also promoted industrialization, and the by the freedom that the government gave to the big businesses, by letting the capitalists operate without government regulations. This led to the creation of big corporations and monopolization.

Industrialization is described as the development of modifying from an agriculture and artisanal social and economic system to an industrialized program. This process needs creating and implementing technological elements such as mechanization of and use of technological resources of energy. Moreover to developments in transport and technological progression, industrialization presented extensive public changes. Serfs and other workers were free of traditional feudal responsibilities that linked them to the area, creating a work market. . Industrialization has brought up the quality of life in developed countries, giving average individuals access to products and technical innovation unimaginable two hundred years before. Most of the starting concepts of sociology were developed on the industrialization that took place in European countries and the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

After the civil war, the United States took steps to become a more industrialized country. They wanted to become more progressive and “many people viewed this economic growth as evidence of the superiority of the American system”. The effects industrialization can be seen throughout history between 1865 and 1914. Industrialization improved the American way of life but also created many problems for them.

The Industrialization brought many changes to the United States after the devastating Civil War , which brought a many losses of life. At the same time, the war helped the country develop even more materialistic. The Industrialization began in the United States in 1865 after the Civil War it went developing for the next five decades. The first transactional railroad was completed in 1869 by workers from China that were paid poorly . There was many more inventions throughout the Industrialization from 1869-1914 that helped the Nation developed. The Industrialization was a process that helped the economy transform into something better and individual laborers are replaced by mass production and craftsman by assembly lines, but even though it meant maybe more work to many’s. This affected many due to the poorly paid laborers who worked hard and did not get many advantages from that. It helped in ways that the economy grew even more and better that helped society but not those who were poor. The Industrialization did not much helped many of the workers, who appeared most likely to be immigrants, many of them and their families lived in really bad conditions and had horrible working conditions as well with poor pay for the amount of hours worked, that sometimes those mass productions consisted of child labor.