The Age Of 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

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The nineteenth century witnessed the rise of the modern industry. As the nineteenth century was a time of great change and upheaval, it was also a period of great opportunity. These advances in science and technology generated much of this change and had widespread effects on society. This emerging modern world was driven by an endless stream of new products made by factories employing radically new technologies, skills, and organizations.

During the nineteenth century, there was a time of critical social problems we now know

The late 19th century of American history is most commonly known as the Gilded Age, because of its attractive appearance, but underlying corruption. Popular themes during this period were greed and guile. This can most clearly be seen in the nature of city governments and political machine systems. Political machine systems were made up influential men preying on the vulnerable for their own gain. A shining example of this unethical system is Tammany Hall. Tammany Hall was a political force in New York City from its 1789 inception as a benevolent association to its infamous end in the early 20th century (Tammany Hall). Run by William M. Tweed, commonly referred to as Boss Tweed, this political ring gained its popularity by supporting immigrants and the lower class. Tammany Hall pushed for real improvements in hospitals, schools, and infrastructure (Burns). Although these examples are viewed as a good within the system, they are irrelevant and ineffective in the overall upheaval caused by Boss Tweed and his political machine. Tweed 's idea of city government and his political machine was a failure because it took advantage of taxpayers, used political graft and corruption to disparage the Constitution, and set a bad example for future political leaders.

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.

Mark Twain and Charles Dudley named the late nineteenth century as the “Gilded Age”. What Mark meant by Gilded Age is it is a shiny gold type surface on the top, but if you study and try to look inside it is full of corruption, scandals and controlled by wealthy influential people. As mentioned in the book on pg. 641 that Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan in the late

The Progressive Era was social activism and political reform between the 1890s and 1920s. The reformers of the Progressive Era tried to help the corrupt government, improve the not so great economic state for lower and middle class and immigrants, and invoke social change. The reformers were also very effective of making the problems of the 19th century known in America. Media development and some innovation did an excellent job of bolding all the corruption in the government and scandals of public health. Margaret Sanger and Alice Paul were very important reformers during the 19th century. With their help, immigrants and the lower classes were freed of the corruption and forced poverty placed upon them by business and government. These reformers were very successful in dealing with the problems at the turn of the century and really beyond,

The early nineteenth century in the United States was a period defined by exponential growth both socially and economically as well as major westward expansion and urbanization. This time is referred to as the Industrial Revolution because of the heightened interest in manufacturing and production. Industrialization in the North was on the rise mainly as a result of the Embargo Act of 1807, a law that barred the United States from trading with other nations, as well as the war of 1812. The government policies during this time allocated more attention towards projects of inward improvement such as creating roads, canals and building infrastructure. As for foreign policy, the United States remained relatively neutral during this time which

The nineteenth century brought an impressive expansion of intellectual achievements and and progressions that lead to revisions of daily life in America. Technological advancements, such as the cotton gin, improved production capabilities in the south while transportation improvements, including railroads, allowed these products to become more accessible to northern communities and trade-driven towns. These various intellectual progressions, as well as others, performed collectively to reduce manual labor in America and improve communication:

They arrived from Hong Kong with nothing but debt. That debt was to no one else other than her aunt Paula. There was a saying: “Blood is thicker than water”, but unfortunately, this saying was not true in Kimberly’s case. Her aunt thought that Kimberly and her mother owned her a life debt that could never been repaid, because she had brought them to America (256). She gave them an illegal place to live. The author described the way they lived so vividly that filled the readers with emotion. Their apartment was in a terrible state. It lacked heat and real furniture. The wind can blow through the windows where “the windowpanes were missing or cracked” in the middle of New York City winter. They had to live under the same roof with roaches and mice running around. They had to keep the oven on during the winter days as it was their only source of heat. They had to cover their body with layer and layer of clothes but still, that was not warm enough. What really helped her family survive that winter was the cloth used to make stuffed animal in the toy factory trash. They wanted to take the warm material home right away but they were afraid of being late for work. It is very emotional when they kept worrying that other people might take it, that it might not be there when they finished their job. The material, which only was trash to other people, was really a treasure to them, made

The epicenter of the new founding country America in both the 18th and 19th century’s values and traditions are contrary to each of their beliefs. In both era ways of living and the foundation they are governed upon would have contrary beliefs to each other. When the founding fathers built the foundation on which the new country would stand upon they made sure the country would change to become unique from any other. eventually Such principles like aristocracy, patriarchy and most 18th century traditional and cultural would give way to a new way of handling societies and its affairs. Marketing strategies such as mercantilism, would give way to a more hands off way of business and trade known as lassie affair economy. Many other cultural changes such as a new society in 19th America based on popular sovereignty and sentimentalism are examples of societies new principles

Even though her parents cannot provide her with such basic needs in life, they always want the best for her. Their dream house is the house “Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed” (147). She did not think about how poor family was, until the nun’s comment changed her view of life. It was not appropriate to judge someone by where they come from or how rich their family is, especially with children. The early years of development have a very big impact on a person’s life, so the teenage narrator would be either traumatized for the rest of her life, or would try to work herself up to the

If I mention love of reading and love of learning, for most people, these should be advantages, positive attributes, and good qualities, which are worthy to be encouraged and promoted. However, in the nineteenth-century France, women reading and writing, for many people, was a very terrible thing because in the nineteenth century and before, requirements of females were just to be good wives and mothers. They should spend all time doing housework, taking care of children and pleasing their husbands. Nevertheless, from the eighteenth century until the middle and late periods of the nineteenth century, some women know and understand the meaning of reading and education. These women are proud to be intellectuals, they were called bluestockings.

Early 19th century America begins to see disputes between the North and the South. Compromises in hopes it would solve the issues. However, in the 1860, economic and social problems between the North and South became so immense that using compromises to resolve political disputes no longer seemed possible.