Urbanization In America In The 1800s

During the early 1800’s in the United States of America, both the Early Industrial Revolution and the Westward Expansion contributed to the sectional tension between the North and the South. While the North had factories popping up everywhere, the South had more and more land dedicated to plantations. To stay at the pace of the North, the South decided it would be beneficial if they were to become their cotton suppliers. With the invention of the cotton gin, cotton was being mass-produced and sent to the North to be made into items such as clothing. Whilst this was going on, the point of slavery became a big issue and the debate over it began, dividing the North and South more and more over time. The North didn't support slavery and instead, hired workers to work in the factories (specifically low-wage woman), while the South supported slavery and used African slaves to work on plantations. This caused many problems as both sides wanted more land to promote their opinion on slavery for either plantations or factories. Due to each of the sides having contradictory points of view on slavery, the Missouri Compromise and the addition of other territories such as during the Louisiana Purchase, the Oregon Treaty, and the Annexation of Texas, much strife occurred in the Senate. The Westward Expansion led to the desire for more land, therefore the United States expanded their land from the East coast to the West coast. The Westward Expansion promoted the addition of new land and

In American industrial cities, late 1800s, Poor neighborhood were not the best place to live. With poor living conditions, poor sanitation and crowded housing, many epidemics of infectious disease spread into the poor population and touched even the wealthy class. Cities such as New York were crowded and workers were living in tenements, which were often cramped, poorly lit and poorly aerated. Moreover, these tenements lacked of adequate plumbing, therefore waste was flooding in the public streets. Streets was crowded of waste and garbage. Population was poorly nourished and has a poor life hygiene like water pollution and poisoned food and milk. Accordingly, infectious disease was the common death reason. Big cities had known outbreaks of

The Gilded Age saw the United States shift from an agricultural to an urban, industrial society, as millions of Americans flocked to cities in the post, Civil War time zone. Nearly 40 percent of Americans lived in urbanized areas by 1900, as opposed to 20 percent in 1800s. Industrialization and the rush to the cities led to the development of consumerism and a middle class. The rich had many advantages to the new age.

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.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s Americans expanded abroad into other countries and areas. American expansion was unjustified with the barbaric ways that we gained land in one case, and what we did with land in another case.

In the early 1800's America began to create their own unique culture. For the longest time, America had been getting their ideas and being influenced by other countries. I believe that they wanted to create a new type of culture that was truly American. They did this by creating new art forms such as literature, music, painting, and architecture. For example, Americans began using characters and setting that fell into the "American" category. Most characters, were "portrayed as strong, brave, resourceful, and honorable" (chapter 6-3, page 323). Another thing Americans did different, is what they built things. "American architects of the early 1800s developed their own forms of building" (chapter 6-3, page 325). Based on ideas from Greece and

One of the most notable times during the late 19th century was the Gilded Age. This is a term often used to describe this time period since from the outside looking in urban life in America seemed perfect, but in reality, many citizens did not like the changes that were occurring. Since the verb gild means to cover with or as if with a thin coating of gold[1], historians often refer to this time period as “the Gilded Age”. New ideals about poverty, social reforms, different political approaches, and a new women’s culture brought forth political, economic, social, and cultural changes in urban growth during the

How do you see progress, as a process that is beneficial or in contrast, that it´s a hurtful process that everyone at one point of their lives has to pass through it? At the time, progress was beneficial for the United States, but those benefits came with a cost, such cost that instead of advancements and developments being advantageous factors for humanity, it also became a harmful process in which numerous people were affected in many facets of life. This all means that progress is awsome to achieve, but when achieved, people have to realize the process they had to do to achieve it, which was stepping on other people to get there.

The Making of the Multi-Ethnic American City from the 1880s to the 1920s The United States has always been a nation made up of many nationalities. In little more than two hundred years of its existence, it has taken more than 55 million people, from nearly every corner of the world. People of different countries have brought varied ideas about religion, politics, tradition, and custom to American shores.

In the late 19th century, American cities exploded in population. This explosion was fueled by population growth, technology in transportation, and industrialization. In 1870, there were only two American cities with a population of more than 500,000, but by 1900, there were six. Three of these – New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia – had over one million residents. Roughly 40 percent of Americans lived in cities, and the number was increasing (Urbanization, 2015).

Remember in history class about all that talk of the frontier and the great American life and the whole nine yards? Remember playing cowboys and Indians as a kid? Well, taking a look back into the 1800s, one can see that the hazards of that time were much harsher in contrast to those conditions that people face in contemporary times.

The people that lived in the cities were only two cities that claimed population of over a million people were London and Paris. By the turn of the 20th century, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia in the United States along with Berlin, Tokyo, St. Petersburg and Moscow, Buenos Aires, and Osaka had reached or were fast approaching that mark. Also, massive metropolitan areas around the world towns and cities of all different sizes, from industrial cities to trading centers and county seats also expanded. The conditions were as followed New York became the first American city to reach a million inhabitants, followed by Chicago, and Philadelphia in 1890. Towns and cities attracted both rich and poor seeking more opportunity's. Overpopulation

The revolution of an industrial based economy and transportation, changed Americans daily lives in the mid 1800s century by improving their lifestyle and their daily needs when before they have to make the materials themselves now we have the opportunity to purchase them in the market by a price but before that how did industry manufacturers and transportation change the economy and improved people's lives despites the many outcomes it has in long term run.

Imagine a city that has just over 1 million people living in it; by today’s standards that is a small city. Imagine New York City in the mid-1800s having this population size. This was one of the biggest cities on the east coast of the United States of America. It was growing in both size and value; but as the city grew the natural environment shrink. And in today’s New York City with its 8.5 million citizens the only green that is left in the city are manmade parks ("Immigrant and Foreign Population"). Olmstead, who created all 842 acres of central park, had amazing foresight into what the city would become. He preserved by recreating the environment that millions of people take for granted today. These hundreds and hundreds of green acres

At the turn of the century the rise of the urban city began to take shape. The “New Metropolis” of industrial cities in America began to produce many innovations and creations both terrible and wonderful at the same time. With the advent of steam power replacing water power the scale of the amount of goods and materials produced vastly increased. The increase of products drew men and women away from farming communities and poor countries around the world into the blooming cities.