Us Historical Growth: Geographical And Technological Advantages Introduction This paper discusses the US historical economic growth in the early stages of development in the context of geographical and technological contributions. There have been many geographical and technological advantages in the US economy that have greatly increased its growth capacity and have taken an active part in the US economic development. Today US is a high mass consumption economy where around 5 percent of world’s population lives but consumes world’s one-third output. Newer technologies lead to innovations increasing the labor and land efficiencies and this is especially important in the early stages of growth where there is more of an agrarian economy than industrial. This agrarian economy needs improved pesticides, insecticides and many other input chemicals that increase the crop output or yield per piece of land. This paper takes its matter from the concepts of Norton’s A People and A Nation and Oates’s Portrait of America. Norton (2003) states that the advantages of size and geography also influence the international markets or international politics around the world than the EU. Us Historical Growth: Geographical And Technological Advantages Jeffrey A. Frankel (2001) states that US economy enjoys many advantages be it economic, political, technological or geographical. The biggest advantage is the large size it has that leads to mass production thus increasing the economies of scale.
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.
In conclusion during the years 1865 and 1900 technology, economic and government policies changed american agriculture
The period between the American Revolution and the Civil War had great significance for the United States' economy. Although initially the economy seemed unstable at first, after the second war that America fought with England, the economy began to show considerable growth thereafter. This can be seen as the result of the cotton trade in the South and the eventual industrialisation of America, especially in the Northeast and later the West. From the invention of cotton gins to the adaptation of railways one can see how the United States used their opportunities and resources to their full advantage, transforming their economy to be able to compete among the worlds leading economical countries.
Thesis: All throughout the history of America, industrialization was always a big impact. Soon after the war in 1812, America's nationalism increased. This contributed to the industrialization of the United States very quickly. This time period shows a huge change from agriculture to the new industrialization. Not only did the shift impact the economy and technology it also largely affected politics in the United States. With the expansion of the market during the 18th-century the most significant effects of the market revolution were the developing sectional tensions in the US, the expansion of the market with new and improved transportation technology (making it easier and faster to transport goods), and the substantial changes in labor and production of resources.
The United States currently occupies around thirty-seven percent of North America, but how has this prosperous country expanded so fast in the last three centuries? The US is currently one of the largest countries in the world and the second largest in North America. Though most Americans know about the original Thirteen Colonies, several of them might have trouble trying to list another major affair through which the United States has expanded westward. Many battles and fights have caused the borders of the United States and the states and territories of the land now deemed to the United States to have changed; along with major purchases of land, the battles and fights have brought America to the current size it is.
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.
Imagine having to wait a long period of time for a letter from your beloved because they had to send it through horse. Or even better, imagine having to wait for wheat or meat restock in your city due to the distance the store purchased it from. America industrial growth couldn’t have occurred without the industrial giants of the period. The industrial giants gave the states more opportunity to create and move quicker to provide the nation.
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.
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.
Farming was growing less popular because of the rise of cities. New jobs were growing such as engineers, miners, and factory workers. Industries such as coal and oil popped up from the railroad system which brought new jobs and new people. The railroad was putting farmers into debt. It was cheap to transport goods, which did not give farmers enough money to sustain their farms. With railroads the US no longer had to rely on a single state for a good, but now good get it shipped in from anywhere which brought in less for farmers. The expansion to the west made the Americans realize that their is more than just farming and the began to spread industries across the map. This made them powerful by giving them new jobs and economic growth. America became exceptional from the possibilities that the cities brought, they spread their new cities west trying to show their new technologies. America was exceptional because it grew out of its old ways and started new ones which benefited America, it gave new opportunities to the people which is what the United States is
The Early American Industrial Revolution and Westward Expansion, two interconnected yet independent occurrences, were significant events in the Antebellum Era. The Early Industrial Revolution utilized new inventions to improve the United State’s economy and change lifestyles (Hakim NN 105; Hakim NN 107). It had offered new opportunities and transformed America 's farm economy into a market economy, which is, arguably, more efficient (Hakim NN 109). While Westward Expansion extended America’s borders, fueled by a popular ideal known as “manifest destiny, it caused many disputes amongst the American citizens, creating complications in Congress (Hakim 62-63). As shown, the Industrial Revolution and Westward Expansion were both major changes for America 's economy, each with its own benefits and disadvantages (Hakim NN 103-109; Hakim 58-59). The Early Industrial Revolution and Westward Expansion promoted and enhanced the effects of each other; the increased production of textiles urged Southern farmers to expand their plantations, which in turn, produced more raw materials for the Northern industrial workers to process (Hakim NN 103-109; Hakim 58-59). While both, as shown above, had improved the economy and allowed some freedom for the workers in free states which would otherwise not have, they also promoted slavery, which, at the time, was an ongoing issue
The 1990 to 2000 population increase was the largest in American history. The population growth of 32.7 million people between 1990 and 2000 represents the largest census-to-census increase in American history.2 The previous record increase was 28.0 million people between 1950 and 1960, a gain fueled primarily by the post-World War II baby boom (1946 to 1964). Total decennial population growth declined steadily in the three decades following the 1950s’ peak before rising again in the 1990s. The 1990s economic boom in the United States was an extended period of economic prosperity, during which GDP increased continuously for almost ten years (the longest recorded expansion in the history of the United States). It commenced after the end of the
Beginning with the colonial period the United States was already experiencing differences in economic and social development growth. To start with the differences in geographical location of each region required the people to alter their settlement pattern. In the north, family farms were used for agriculture compared to the
America has been expanding and growing since its birth out of Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution has been an influence in the American life since it first in the 1700s. “Most families did not have enough to sell at the market- they had just enough for their own needs.” Up until the factories started booming and employment rates skyrocketed, people really couldn’t become wealthy and live a decent life. As the ways of farming grew the English at the time began to use up more and more land efficiently. “Unusable swamplands could be drained and used for crops.” That’s absolutely amazing that in this era they could turn swamps into areas to raise more crops so they can naturally make more money at the markets and become a bit wealthier. Farming is one of the most important lively hoods of mankind; no matter what argument anyone tries to make. If we didn’t have farming and agricultural production we wouldn’t have all the different sorts of food products we do, nor would they be as abundant. Life would be like it was before the Industrial Revolution came about and most of us would still be growing our own food and barely scraping by in life. With all this agricultural expansion of the time population in England start expanding drastically as well. Thanks to population growth people started to worry more about new inventions and producing stuff for us to make our day to day lives easier than we could have ever before. With all the technological advancements leading up to
Agriculture was the most important economic activity in America from the founding of Virginia in 1607 to about 1890. Although farming declined rapidly in relative economic importance in the twentieth century, U.S. agriculture continued to be the most efficient and productive in the world. Its success rested on abundant fertile soil, a moderate climate, the ease of private land ownership, growing markets for farm produce at home and abroad, and the application of science and technology to farm operations.