From 1880 to 1920, cities in the United States grew rapidly. What factors caused that growth, and in what ways did Americans respond to the challenges posed by urbanization? The growth period from 1880-1920 shaped America in many ways that even affect us to this day. This time period included the Industrial Age, which was marked by the maturity of industrial growth in the United States, the Progressive Era that was characterized by reformers trying to address the challenges of growing cities, and the challenges of becoming a global world power with our entry into World War I. From 1880 to 1920, the United States grew rapidly because of new inventions, urbanization, and migration/immigration. New inventions marked the maturity of the Industrial …show more content…
The farmers protested this and asked the state of Illinois legislature to regulate it. “Some time ago they carried a law through the Illinois legislature, which provides for the limiting of freight rates by a board of officials appointed for this purpose”. This government policy was put in place to keep the railroads from overcharging the farmers. In document F, one reads that five railroads meet in the city of Chicago. This is an ideal place to transport cows and pigs for the meat packing industry. “Let the five great trunk lines which have their termini on the borders of Lake Michigan answer. Like the outstretched fingers of a hand, they meet in the central palm, Chicago”. Chicago was the center for industrialization, with all the city’s interconnected through the transcontinental railroad. In document G, the politicians are taking advantage of the farmers and then blaming the farmers for overproduction. When the politicians could just use the leftover food to feed the starving children of America? “Then the politicians said we suffered from overproduction when 10,000 little children, statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States”. This shows the corruption of politicians taking advantage of the small
In 1816 the Congress chartered the second Bank of the United States. Referred to as BUS. The bank was controlled by private stockholders, even though it was the depository of federal funds. State banks saw this bank as a competitor, and when the state banks began to fail during the 1818 depression, they blamed it on the BUS. One of the states laying blame on BUS was Maryland. We impose a large tax on banks not chartered within the state, and the only bank not chartered within the state was BUS. The BUS’ Baltimore branch refused to pay the tax, and Maryland sued James McCulloch, cashier for the branch. McCulloch responded by saying that the tax was unconstitutional, one of the state courts ruled in favor of Maryland, and the court of appeals
8.0 The accomplishment of the nineteenth century a) The achievement of the nineteenth century was result by lawyers internationally becoming less concern that brought the invasive ascendancy of the dogmatic positivism over intercontinental lawful writing in general. b) The legislation was also present in that domain across the world.
During the mid-19th century the United States was still facing the sudden expansion of its territory as there were many different ideals being fought for causing America’s democracy to expand and restrict in different ways. Many northern people were against slavery causing the southern slave owners to say that it was a restriction of their rights to own property. Women were fighting for fairness in workplaces. Women did not want to be considered just an add on to men anymore. The United States government tried to juggle the needs and wants of every party, but to satisfy one would mean the restriction of another’s freedom.
The century of the 1800s is a time period marked by progress. Major industrialization had began to spread around England like a wildfire of new inventions, increased production and a step away from the old-fashioned putting out system of yesteryears. Not just England but all of Western Europe and even the Americas would begin to experience a new age of industry that would ultimately change the world in so many ways. However, in any kind of revolution, there are parts of it that are not so glorious. Horrible working conditions, political movements, and conflicting radical theories would introduce another the people during the industrial age to push for reform to bring about social change.
Around the 1860’s a major issue was slavery and what to do with it. The government, individuals, and groups tried many different things to deal with slavery.
The United States has the best geography in the world. We are an ocean away from any other world power. In the 18th century and even the 19th century it was a massive invaders. We didn’t have to deal with foreign invaders like Britain, France, or Russia. Outside of England we didn’t fight any eastern hemisphere countries until the industrial revolution. Our geography gave us stability and peace, which helped us grow a lot.
Beginning in the early 1920’s, America found itself in a frenzy of revolutionary movements that would shift the everyday lives of American citizens and pave the way to the modern era. A struggle between old ideas of conservatism and new liberal movements surfaced during the “roaring twenties”. The new movements that began rearing their heads during this time period consisted of liberal political ideas, the advancements of rights for the common man and woman, and reforms to our social culture.
Life in Europe began to explode. With bigger and better technology, people were finally realizing how to get ahead in the world. Many thinkers and inventors flooded the cities, hoping to get their ideas out of their minds and into the world they live in. People began to realize things they would’ve never thought of without these technologies or the newcomers.
From the period of 1825 to 1850, there were many reform movements that attempted to spread and display democratic ideals. The reform movements were spurred by the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening differed from the First in that people weren't solely focused on religious revival. Reform movements of religion, temperance, abolition, women's rights, immigration, juvenile punishment, and treatment of the mentally ill. sought to expand democratic ideals in the years 1825 to 1850 but there were certain movements including nativism and Utopias that did not display these same democratic ideals.
There were many different so called “reform movements” in the years 1825 through 1850, although, only some were actually making changes to the U.S. that benefited the people as a whole, others were just self proclaimed reforms to cover up the fact that their movement only benefited themselves and the rest of the group they were representing, these were the types of “reforms” that failed to show the value that Americans placed on having a democratic society. That being said, the validity of the statement “Reform movements in the U.S. sought to expand democratic ideals.”, would be partially correct but partially false because not all of these movements were created to expand the ideas of democracy.
The relationship between immigration, urbanization, and industrialization became dominantly significant by the launch of the Progressive Era between the years 1890 and 1920. Immigration increased at a staggering rate in which millions of immigrants from Western Europe, Southern Europe, and Eastern Asia sough economic opportunities. The United States, in the era, experienced large portions of its lands altered into massive cities with expanding industrial infrastructures. Despite these factors having greatly transformed American life, the nation’s inhabitants have only begun to realize the consequences for such an inevitable step of progress.
The 1920's was an era defined by United States citizens as a euphoric display of wealth for white Americans. Throughout the entirety of the decade, all the presidents were Republican who took a hands-off approach towards economic regulation, which fostered independence in the areas of both free expression and finance for whites. However, a vast majority of America's wealth, largely from middle and working class Americans, was placed in false hopes of the stock market continuing to rise, which eventually crashed in autumn of 1929. The minimal government support of the Republican era left many middle and lower class individuals, as well as people of color, namely black Americans, without proper support to reestablish themselves during the first
Following the First World War, the United States went in search of a, “return to normalcy,” which many agreed was exactly what it needed. However, to the dismay of many, all the United States could find was a significant amount of tension that had developed between, “Old America,” and, “New America.” All in all, this tension that arose between old and new traditions and ideas did so in the form of religion, conflicts within society, and cultural values.
Change has always been a part of American history, and the 1920’s was one period of such change. America had just come out of a grisly war, and entered a period of economic prosperity. People now were able to express themselves better, and the war changed many beliefs for younger generations. Americans began to adopt new cultural and moral views, but some people held to their traditions and fought against the modern values because they viewed them as a threat.
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