The New Industrial State

The United States grew into a global industrial power between the 1870’s and 1900’s. encouraging this spectacular growth was the transcontinental railroads, steel, technological advancements, and innovations. Railroads linked regional markets into national markets (383). Likewise, railroads themselves aided in the development of a massive new market for raw materials and new technologies. The transcontinental railroads further open settlement west by decreasing the travel time. The railroads allowed

he industrial revolution began in England in the late 1700’s, it followed the agricultural revolution which set the transition from hunting and gathering to farming. This was the start of humans staying in one place and developing. Like the agricultural revolution there was a transition but this transition was from everything being done by hand/ needing a lot of labor to things being manufactured. The industrial revolution is improving the way of life with machines. The most essential features

environment. Industrial revolution was so fundamental that it’s often compared with the transition from farming to stock raising, which began several thousand years before the birth of Christ. Considering the uses of natural resources, can human history be dived up into three pieces of varying length; hundreds of thousands years before “the agricultural revolution”, thousands of years between this and the Industrial revolution and the two hundreds years after the beginning of Industrial

Roosevelt’s New Deal Cora E. Parks January 16 2013 The New Deal was a series of programs created by the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, during a time of economic depression to help the poor and destitute people of the nation by creating jobs, providing economic recovery, helping restore damaged areas in the U.S., and much more. In 1932, when the American public voted President Herbert Hoover out of office, they were searching for an end

The Social and Political Consequences of The Second Industrial Revolution When the first industrial revolution occurred, transportaiton and production were mainly the forms of change within Europe. This paved the way for further advancement in transportation and production. In the later half of the nineteenth century and into the beginning of the long twentieth century, a second industrial revolution brought new technology and medical advances to Europe. Socialism emerged to attempt to solve political

Britain and the United States to end the Revolutionary War. The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783 in Paris, France. The Treaty of Paris had been created to end the Revolutionary War and bring freedom to the United States. The Treaty of Paris was significant because it stopped the Revolutionary War, created borders, and made the U.S. a sovereign nation. The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order made by President Lincoln that freed slaves in rebellious states. The Emancipation

The second industrial revolution refers to the time period of 1870s and 1880’s, which profoundly altered the European life. The major innovations of the second industrial revolution include the widespread use of steel and electricity in the industries, the perfection of mass production technology, the rise of technical education in colleges and universities and the growth of a new professional class in the society (More). It was a period of centralized management and control, which integrated the

to unify the nation. In 1864, Lincoln’s plan was to issue a proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction for those areas of the Confederacy occupied by Union armies. Lincoln also planned and required the ten percent of the voting population of each state from the 1860 election. This requirement established that the

The Industrial Revolution Life before industrial revolution was extremely difficult. Hard physical jobs, poor health habits and lack of basic needs such as soap and clean water were causes for short life span. People were living in small agricultural communities without proper mechanism to operate in order to produce corps in need for survival. The farmers were in need for new equipment which would fasten production speed They were rarely trying to plant new corps and planting system was

reference to the industrial revolution during which America’s industrial growth led to the growth of factories and modern cities, the development of social classes due to division of labor and race. During this period, the American labor force transformed tremendously as the nation evolved from a largely agricultural society into a relatively modern society. Role of Labor Force in the Transition from Agriculture to Industrialization Until the late nineteenth century, the United States was still an