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    Industrialization As George Donelson Moss, author of America in the twentieth century states it; modern America emerged during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century. With most of the century consisting of farmers and smaller towns and country-like living, the later parts of the century brought industrialization and businesses. This changes forced Americans to view and live life differently. Of the important elements that influenced America in the nineteenth century, industrialization

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    Impact of Industrialization on American Society Reese Aghayedo HISTORY 1312- 701: United Stated History II September 11, 2017   During late 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the United States went through rapid industrialization that drastically changed many aspects of its society. During this era, the United States became the leading industrial capitalist of the world . This also led to tremendous increase in demand for the working-class Americans. Also, advancement in farm machinery

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    The early 19th century was a time of technological innovations that took the United States to a new level of commerce. During this time, the cotton gin, steamboats, power looms, and even the telegraph were invented (Swen). As these inventions continued to improve the way of life, the nation continued to spread northeast and west to discover new land. Where a stagecoach may have taken months to transport goods from east to west, the railroad could transport the merchandise cross country in just a

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    country. They wanted to become more progressive and “many people viewed this economic growth as evidence of the superiority of the American system”. The effects industrialization can be seen throughout history between 1865 and 1914. Industrialization improved the American way of life but also created many problems for them.     The Industrialization transformed humanity's struggle with material scarcity to expand the production of goods and services. The percentage of 17 year old high school graduates

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    Industrialization Impact

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    Industrialization Industrialization had many different impacts in American history. One of the impacts that industrialization had was increasing wealth in the U.S. Many business managers, and investors/entrepunuer took financial risks of starting factories and they earned many rewards. By factory’s, the overall amount of goods and services started increasing, because of the fact that factory’s can produce goods much faster than a human. However men were still needed to operate the machines, and

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    Industrialization DBQ

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    While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily negative consequences for society because of the horrible working conditions, it was actually a positive thing for society; Industrialization’s positive effects were the production increases, more efficient transportation and better living conditions. The assembly line and factories were forms of production increase. The railroads and automobiles are examples of efficient transportation, and tenements and urban renewal are examples of better

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    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. All of this hard laboring was not a choice or for fun. If you wanted your family to eat or live the whole family would

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    Industrialization was a time period where the process of manufacturing goods became easier because of technological innovations. The changes during the Industrial Revolution contributed to the rise of big business because industries wanted to expand their efforts. Industrialization assisted manufacturing industries by making production more mechanized and efficient. Technological innovations due to industrialization caused a rise of factories and employment opportunities in America. The benefits

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    While some might argue that industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because economic growth, it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization’s negative effects were bad living situation, no education for children, and poor salary. During the 1800’s the way people lived was not quite how we live today. Although some may argue that the way they lived back then was so much easier it actually caused a lot of humans to perish. Not only did they die from diseases

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    Considering occurrences that followed the Civil War, the paper examines how industrialization affected the US between the years of 1865 and 1920 on social, economic and political aspects.  Prime aspects of industrialization between 1865 and 1920. The industrial era saw the rapid set up of companies. Railway became the main mode of transportation. This is because this was the ideal form of movement for bulky goods to far off destinations especially from the South areas which were associated with

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