“No place is free of the threat implied in such phrases as economic growth, job creation, natural resources, human capital, bringing in industry, even bringing in culture—as if every place is adequately identified as the environment and its people as readily replaceable parts of a machine. Devotion to any particular place now carries always the implication of heartbreak (Berry, 2007).” During the Civil War, government contracts were issued to factories in order to produce shoes, clothes, weapons, food, and other goods for the troops. Business owners wanted the money being offered by the government and knew how to get it. People were willing to give up life as they knew it in order to work in the factories and stores, despite the conditions …show more content…
By the 1890s things were different. The U.S. economy had shifted from agriculture to industry. (Roskin & Berry, 2010). Three major aspects of industrialization between 1865 and 1920 were railroad expansion, the steel industry, and the oil industry. Several hundred thousand miles of additional railroad tracks were laid throughout the nation largely with the backing and support of the federal government. Four businessmen from New York who headed to California during the gold rush were the developers for the entire West coast railroad expansion. The steel industry played a huge role in getting railroads expanded. In 1872, Businessman Andrew Carnegie opened a steel plant in the United States. Following on an idea he saw on a trip to England, Carnegie chose to use unskilled workers who would work for cheap. By 1900, his steel company was the largest in the world. Much like Andrew Carnegie in the steel industry, the oil industry had John D. Rockefeller. He figured out how to extract, transport to refineries, package, get the oil out to cities and towns, and market the oil. Rockefeller either worked with his competition, or took over their company. His goal was to provide cheap oil and make a ton of money, and so he did. Each of these industry leaders were very shrewd and ruthless businessmen, but they were also geniuses when it came to making money. They were in the company of …show more content…
In the South between the 1880s and 1890s, a new textile mill was quite common due to cotton being widely available. Typical factory work, they endured poor working conditions, hard labor, and low pay. Black Southerners also had to deal with Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan, and other paramilitary groups who intimidated and even assassinated blacks and their white supporters. Emancipation allowed many of them to earn their wages by being domestic servants, craftsmen, casual laborers, and farm hands. They were now “peers and competitors of white wage laborers (Eberle, 1959).” In order to eliminate the competition, thousands of blacks especially in the South were lynched. They were hung in front of crowds of people that believed they had violated some law or tradition. In 1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed in hopes of putting an end to the Jim Crow laws and lynching. Many years of going back and forth with lawmakers, the NAACP was unsuccessful in their attempt. The money makers were whites who took most of the skilled paying jobs, and the unskilled jobs were left for the African
Had Abraham Lincoln lived, the Reconstruction period no doubt would have been far different. The first way that Reconstruction would have been different would have been as a result of Lincoln's famous sense of empathy. He no doubt would have exhibited a greater sense of empathy to the Southern states and would have sympathized more greatly with their rebuilding process, in all likelihood, attempting to make it easier for them (Lamb & Swain, 2008). As some have argued, the death of Lincoln only bolstered the sense of hatred and vengeance from those in the North onto the Southern states; had Lincoln lived, Radical Republicans of Congress would have not been able to push such inflammatory bills such as the Wade-Davis bill which just sought to punish southerners (Jensia, 2008). Such radicals would have had to follow a more diplomatic plan established by Lincoln. Many southerners believed in Lincoln's sense of justice and temperance, and they believed that if there was a leader who could bridge the sense of animosity and hostility between north and south, it was no doubt him (Jensia, 2008). Lincoln's death meant that Reconstruction for the south was a far more involved, debilitating process, characterized heavily by a sense of Northerners attempting to discipline the South.
After the Civil War the United States became a much more industrialized society. Between 1865 in 1920 industrialization and proved American life in many ways. However industrialization also created problems for American society. This paper will introduce my previously crafted thesis statement where I stated my opinion on how industrialization after the Civil War influenced US society, economy, and politics.
The period from 1877-1900 mark the years of Industrialization America. Rockefeller, Carnegie, and J.P Morgan were the people that shaped this time period. Rockefeller created the oil company Standard Oil, Carnegie created Carnegie steel, and J.P Morgan was a powerful banker. These successful people brought America to surpass many of the European global powers.
There are five important things that every American citizen needs to know about the time period from 1877 to 1917:
The United States of America is vastly known to be the land of opportunity, but it is difficult to convey how accurate this proved to be in the case for all minorities in the 1880’s and especially the early 1900’s. The Industrialization era (1880’s - 1900’s) brought about many “improvements” for society at the time. These improvements took various forms from influencing the American populace to work harder, to more technological advances such as: assembly lines, steel, urbanization, monopolies, and even exploitation, although it is morally inappropriate. With all of the “improvements” listed, Industrialization also brought about many drawbacks and discriminants, which mainly affected the lower half of the social pyramid or the proletariat class.
Industrialization after the civil war, came with significant changes concerning most peoples' lives. There were also a lot of challenges, and changes that took place: First the railroad was developed and the west was more accessible. The development of public transportation in most big cities provided a way for many people to get away from small cities.
Industrialization in the United States occurred between 1850 and 1950. It was the approach from the United States to become larger with enhanced technology to produce a life which cost less and was more efficient. While some might dispute that Industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because of an abundance of job opportunities, it had a negative impact on society. Therefore, industrialization’s negative effects were atrocious working conditions, children’s little or no education, and pollution from factories.
It seems that automation is the one thing that drastically will cause problems for the future, but also the one thing no one wants to address. Hearing it from business leaders it is obvious that this future is coming quickly and there needs to be drastic changes in how we think about work and what work is. You have an entire generation not wanting to adapt to the future and if they don't they might not make it. Trump seems to be encouraging development (which he should in my option) but offers no help or even a strategy for his base of workers (uneducated white voters) that are going to get hit the worst by this. This is vastly different from industrialization of the Late 1800’s. Jobs like manufacturing that has been around since the dawn of
Industrilization began in the late 1700s throught the 1800's and this was a huge change for the U.S. This also became an incredible part to America in the early to mid 1800's. Technology and machines made production of new goods easier for businesses but industries that were new needed easier and efficient ways to bring in raw materials. They needed to bring these materials to the factories and transport the items to new markets but they needed workers to help dp all of this work.
Industrialization during the 1860’s through the 1900’s caused many problems globally. Industrialization changed a lot in the US for Americans because it made it easier for citizens to do labor work, expanded capital for businesses and opened up many job opportunities for people. Although this was beneficial to the Americans it caused other problems to escalate, and caused many people to flee into the cities, as well as caused a differentiation between the rich and the poor. However, after the civil war, industrialization affected the US politically, economically and environmentally way more than them benefitting from it.
The United States post-Civil War found itself in need of reconstructing the entirety of the states and specifically its economy. The states were able to do this relatively quickly and see an era of prosperity wealth unseen ever before in American history. This wealth, however, also continued to divide the country. The success of the United States was built on an unequal distribution of wealth, exploitation of labor, and government policies that encouraged unfair treatment of the majority of Americans while giving breaks to the very rich. The major examples of these inequities are Industrialization in regards to exploitation of labor, the War on Drugs as an attempt to maintain an unequal distribution of wealth and target the poor, and trickle-down
Industrialization. “The rapid development of industry.” Britain success and struggles in this industry. They gained urbanization, education, changing class structures, modern buildings, industrial production, and modern inventions. But in order to have the success with all those they had struggles in working conditions, wages, child labor, changing roles of women, and coal mines.
During the 19th century in England and other areas of Europe and era of industrialization occurred, which led to the construction of numerous factories equipped with new machines. Significant strides in both communication and transportation occurred during this time period. These factories altered the way that products were manufactured. They took assembly out of people’s homes and into a mass production setting. Although products became cheaper and improved the standard of living for some individuals, industrialization did have its detriments. Poor working conditions were rampant in the factory setting and many employees were hurt on the job. Urbanization occurred without cities having the capacity for such a large number of individuals. As a result of this mass migration into cities, unsanitary conditions and diseases erupted. Industrialization during the 19th century in Europe made mass production possible, however, there were several adverse effects to it as well.
In the 1800s the United States has an industrial revolution. Inventors were making all kinds of machines. Some machines were the steam engine, the telegraph and factories. Steamboats allowed people to get from New York City to Albany in 62 hours. The Erie Canal was a canal that connected the Great Lakes and the Hudson river. Railroads were being built all over the country. The United States wanted to grow more and went to war with Mexico to get California and New Mexico. After they won the war and got the land people found gold in California. People from all over went to California to get the gold. This showed that the country grew by getting new land and growing the population.
The 1800's in the United States of America was an era of change, conflicts with Native Americans and lynching still was around, but the United States Of America was striving in the Industry. The industrial revolution. With the industrial revolution , people in Chicago had more jobs but it came with a price, Exploration, Encounter and Exchange, Exploration of better labor conditions , Encountering labor hour conflicts and wages , Exchanging labor revolution. After the Haymarket riot many will be inspired to explore better labor conditions , thus making conditions better for workers