The industrialization that occurred in the northern United States during the mid-to- late 1800's drastically changed the face of the working class and the urban landscape. "These years were some in which science and invention progressed rapidly and created a base for growth in all phases of the economy – transportation, communication, agriculture, mining, and manufacturing" (Axinn & Stern, 2005, p. 84). During the war there was an increase in the output of war goods and an increase in prices of food and clothing which encouraged industrialization. Since the demand for labor increased, there was influx of both immigrants from other countries and migrants from rural to urban areas. Industrialization, in conjunction with territorial expansion …show more content…
The residual formulation believes that "there are two natural channels through which an individual's needs are met: the family and the market economy" (Wilensky & Lebeaux, 1965, p. 139). There was very little, if any, formal social welfare institutions that helped with health care. Health was general attended to by family members. There was a lack of availability, and trust, of physicians; and as a result, many Americans depended on self-help books and familial knowledge to treat illnesses. There was a belief in "every man's ability to be his own physician" (Wrynn, 2007). A widespread distrust of physicians stemmed from their painful treatments which included bloodletting and purgatives. In addition, "the continuing influence of graduates from poorly equipped proprietary medical schools and the inability of the American Medical Association, founded in 1847, to control the training and licensing of physicians sent many Americans to alternative sources for medical treatment" (Wrynn, 2007). Books such as Thomas Ewell's American Family Physician in 1824 and Margaret Moore's Advice to Young Mothers on the Physical Education of Children in 1833, served as guides for mothers to treat illnesses within their families (Wrynn, 2007). During this time, there were illnesses that came to American from other countries. Some of these illness were endemic elsewhere but could easily become epidemic in the United States because there was lack of ability and understanding among the few physicians and the colonists (Rosenberg, 2008). Examples of epidemics during this period include massive outbreaks of cholera and yellow fever. Trade and immigration influenced the spread of disease at this time because the growing number of people and ships brought in a large variety of new pathogens (Rosenberg, 2008). Despite these illnesses being widespread, dealing with them was predominantly a family concern before the growth of
An outburst in growth of America’s big city population, places of 100,000 people or more jumped from about 6 million to 14 million between 1880 and 1900, cities had become a world of newcomers (551). America evolved into a land of factories, corporate enterprise, and industrial worker and, the surge in immigration supplied their workers. In the latter half of the 19th century, continued industrialization and urbanization sparked an increasing demand for a larger and cheaper labor force. The country's transformation from a rural agricultural society into an urban industrial nation attracted immigrants worldwide. As free land and free labor disappeared and as capitalists dominated the economy, dramatic social, political, and economic
Factories enabled a large number of people to be supervised together and replaced hand tools with power-driven machinery. The availability of factory jobs in the north caused a great influx of workers to the region during this era. One group of people, immigrants, particularly met the demand for labor in the north. Between 1840 and 1860, over 4 million people entered the United States. About 90 percent of these immigrants headed for the northern states where job opportunities were abundant. The new advancements in railroads and steamboats, the increase in commercial farming, and the development of large factories triggered the relocation of multitudes to northern cities. Each one building upon another, the events that took place in the north during the 1800s instigated an extreme growth of cities and urban societies, proving population growth to be a key effect of the industrialization in the United States north.
The industrial revolution was one of the most pivotal eras in American history, the rise of factories, mass production and industry led to an influx of jobs, mostly in cities. This led people to emigrate into these cities from all over not just the country but the whole world. Before this time during the late 1800’s the majority of Americans lived in rural areas, the industrial revolution changed all that, taking jobs out of agriculture and putting them into industry. Foreigners flocked through the borders coming mostly from throughout Europe, they came for a multitude of reasons, including; fast growing population in their home countries, the search for employment, persecution and discrimination, and for some just the desire to come to America and live out the American
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.
Throughout the US history, industrialization played a huge impact in society. But soon after The War of 1812, American nationalism increased, adding to the industrialization for the country overnight. Textile mills and other mills began to spring up, that created more jobs for people. Technology also increased, from 1815 to 1860 it showed a major shift from agriculture to industrialization. The economy started to show major differences between the north and the south, but it also brought them together.
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, known as the Industrial Revolution, were periods of tremedous urban growth that radically changed the country. Much of the growth in urban areas came from rural populations who saw they could make more money in the cities than farming their lands. Millions more were immigrants, known as the "New" immigrants. They came primarity from northern and western Europe - England, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavian. Many of them settled in the cities of the Northeast and Midwest, where they took jobs as unskilled factory workers and at the same time dramatically changed the ethnic makeup of urban America. These new immigrants, many of whom were Catholic or Jewish, were viewed by many native-born Americans as being racially and culturally inferior. American society, culture, politics, economic were changed during
After the Civil War, the United States went through a period of rapid industrialization which affected the nation dramatically. Industrial growth, the spread of railroads, the rise of big businesses, and the appearance of labor unions during these decades created a modern industrial economy, and American workers and farmers faced new challenges in adapting to these changes.
The Northern culture and society consisted of many Europeans, Germans, and the Irish. Because of immigration to the United States, there was a massive population surge in the 1800’s. Because of overpopulation, the cities in the North tended to be very dirty and disease ridden. The North’s economy boomed with industrialization. “Industrialization was the result of a series of technological changes in the textile trade”. (Faragher 254)
After the 1800’s, the United States economy began to change drastically through industrialization, big cities, and factories. All of these changes greatly affected daily life, labor norms, and trade. There were new technologies in people’s lives that helped the way they communicated and travelled. Factories produced items faster and big cities led to more money, and more opportunities. The government gave support to the market revolution in the ways they were capable of doing so to help facilitate economic progress.
Industrialization of the Young Nation Everything changed for America once Industrialization during the 1800’s was set in motion. The Industrialization during the 1800’s was a major turning point in America’s history. The events that took place in the 1800’s still effect us today. Industrialization influenced the U.S.’s economy.
During the mid 1860’s America started to change. Railroads were growing faster than ever, factories were popping up everywhere, and the country took its “next step” in its development and industrialization began to occur. Of course like any other thing, it caused a ripple effect on those involved. The development of industries had both great and not so great consequences on those who were impacted. A few of the groups it both helped and damaged were cities, immigrants, and factory workers. The effects industrialization had on cities, immigrants, and factory workers were growth, job opportunities, and the ability to keep wages cheap.
American Industrialization emerged from the ruins of the Civil War and the … of the Reconstruction Period. Spurred by the new manufacturing technologies brought over from Great Britain, and the rest of Europe, factories and mills began emerging across the American landscape, slowly transforming the United States from an agrarian society to one increasingly industrialized and urbanized. From 1860-1900, the nation of rural towns, local crafts, family farms, and regional business, became dominated by sprawling cities, enormous commercial farms and powerful corporations. By the turn of the twentieth century, the United States of America, had become a major power base, with the birth of factories and mills, the burgeoning of cities, the continued westward expansion, and the creation of the transcontinental railroad. However, just as America was welcomed into her glory, the country was riddled with the evils of poverty, mass consumerism, labour disruption, and increasing political, cultural, and environmental conflicts.
Industrialization was large for they now had a larger population that was rapidly growing, people were wanting to get to california, have new black leather shoes, and be able to go to a local butcher shop and get meat because they would not have to raise their own beef they can become a doctor to serve the community.
The Industrialization era in the United States brought immense change to the rebuilding country after the civil war. During the Industrialization era in the United States reforms were made to help create a better working condition to go along with the increase of production and growing number of people in the workforce. Key individuals helped advance the process of a more industrialized America, however corruption in business and politics also monopolies in certain parts of industries came with people’s desire to attain more wealth. The Industrialization era helped modernize the country into what we know today.
In 1870 United States, with the sudden spark of Industrialization, the county’s economy made a monumental change from agricultural to the manufacturing of products. Industry expanded at an alarming rate while millions left farms and other agricultural jobs to work in mines and factories in the urban areas. It was almost as if this change happened overnight. By 1914, the United States became the world’s leading industrial nation because of the many inventors, new technologies, and the expansion of industries, which increase the production of iron and steel, as well as lumber, gold, and silver. With the creation of steel, railroad development commenced and oil and steel were now in high demand.