Industrialization was an important influence to make United States’ economy, due to the union of new entrepreneurs and due to the increase of available employments, become the most powerful in …show more content…
Industries were searching people that accept low payments and that ignore their basic needs as workers. A lot of women and children accept low payments and in consequence, 20 percent of the industry was female. Workers were treated grueling. They worked twelve hours in a day per six days in a week and repeating the same boring task of the machines. The promotion of the idea work hard enough to become wealthy was a manipulation for workers to accept bad work conditions in order to some day reach the promised wealth. In spite of the population growth, the abundance of resources was such that the American economy suffered throughout the nineteenth-century shortage of labor, which resulted in the maintenance of high wages. Habitants were also affected because of the immigrants that came to the United states and the differences and were made between immigrants and native people. Also, they were affected by the stereotypes between races, like black and white discriminations. Additionally, the environment was affected in two ways by industrialization. The new manufacturers and factories destructed all the flora and fauna of the cities. Citizens were very affected by the pollution that the new factories produced. They were also affected by the newly rich and poor wide gaps that industrialization …show more content…
The situation began to change with the independence revolution, which liberated the territory from British mercantilism and gave it the political stability necessary for trade expansion. The failure of socialism in the United States was the manifestation of a failure in socialist organizations. The Socialists were to some extent prophets. In predicting that low wages would reduce demand and threaten capitalism, they paved the way for the new economy of the 1930s, and by contemplating the constitution of trusts as a step forward to be welcomed, they contributed to form the new progressive ideology that ended up prevailing in American politics after the elections of 1912. In 1917, the entry of the United States into the First World War produced the most vigorous expression of progressivism. Progressivism dulled the critical capacity of the conservatives, flourishing a new liberalism that manifested itself in the increasing federal interventionism in the economy. Political people also were affected because of the poor equipped that they were to affront new innovations that industrialization bring. There was a massive corruption era of the nineteenth