CHAPTER 18 (484‐509) AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE INDUSTRIAL AGE MIDDLE CLASS LIFE MIDDLE‐CLASS LIFE Families were generally smaller than before Families were generally smaller than before Young people increasingly were able to marry for “true love” rather than purely social reason true love rather than purely social reason Men worked away from home – in shops, offices, and factories df i ¼ of all urban families employed at least 1 servant Consumerism – fashionable clothes, nicer homes,…
The Northeast always held the title of the most industrious and urban center of the nation, and the Market Revolution only lent to increasing its industrial capacity. The call for mechanization ensued to create a cheaper and effective method of production while simultaneously freeing laborers to do other jobs. Samuel Slater created the first American factory, and this system later carried on through companies such as the Boston Manufacturing Company. This company, spearheaded by Lowell, Appleton and Jackson, employed hundreds of workers within its cotton mills. With the success of its first factory, the company and others set up multiple factories throughout the Northeast. These buildings lead to…
They even enacted laws that banned the selling of machinery to foreign markets. Tactics like this let them hold onto their high status while keeping up their thriving society. One important figure in the Industrial Revolution of the United States was Samuel Slater. Originally from England, Slater was the apprentice of Jedediah Strutt who was considered to be a pioneer in the field of textile technology. After his nearly seven-year apprenticeship was over Slater decided to emigrate to the United States.…
In our text is says that in the mid-1800s many people in the United States felt a sense of uniqueness about their country that was developing and becoming established both politically and economically. Britain was seen as the motherland of with the United States hailed from where the industrial revolution started there before it came to the United States. With that in mind, many businesses started to mass produce products by machines when before they were hand-made and took a long time to produce. Which resulted in the expanding efficiency where it made a higher expectation for everyday products that was known back then as “pre-modern world”. In 1790, Samuel Slater is often credited at the first person to start the “American Revolution which was similar to the British model. With his innovation expanding the pace of how cotton string could be converted to yarn.…
The first American Industrial Revolution took place between 1780 and 1860, an event in history that changed the United States dramatically. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, producing material goods was very time-consuming and labor intensive because everything was handmade. Advances technology, however, allowed for manufacturers to produce large quantities of products within a short period of time. Changes to the way products were made in the factories enabled America to become a wealthy and prosperous country. Although the Industrial Revolution had many impacts on economics and politics in the United States, it ultimately had an incomparably positive impact on society in America.…
The Industrial revolution provided an opportunity for a handful of Americans to amass a great deal of wealth and prosper. The conditions that allowed for the rise of these Americans were cheap labor, a lack of government regulations, and improved technology in manufacturing and communications. Some Americans were convinced that these industrialists were crooks, stealing from the public to build their fortunes. By increasing goods, creating jobs and expanding markets, others would argue they were captains of industry and served their nation in a positive way. As pioneers of the modern industry, having ultimately acted in the best interests of society in America, I believe in the end, they were more characteristic of captains of industry for…
1. Discuss the major factors that promoted the development of industrialization in the United States during the late nineteenth century. New power sources facilitated American industry’s shift to mass production and also suggest the importance of new ways of organizing research…
By the 1900's the United States had emerged as the leading industrial power in the world, with a manufacturing output that exceeded Great Britain, France, and Germany. There were many factors that helped to accomplish the rise of America. Those factors include natural resources, immigration, new inventions etc.…
The way that America was growing it needed new technologies. Industrial titans did have very corrupt ways of business but they were only filling the demands of Americans. For many reasons people need access to trains so Carnegie provided the steel that was needed. The developments of electricity lead Americans to very wide field of new technology. Without the gain of new technology America would have been lost.…
The market organization, banking, and transportation systems revolved around cotton. Samuel Slater, English- American Industrialist is known as the father of the America factory system that contributed to the new work system in America. The religious revival was not happy with the new system, which gave rise to the second great awakening. They believed that salvation could be attained through faith and good deeds. In addition, they saw greed was selfish and a sin, and they were popular in areas affected by the market economy. The market revolution amplified the breach between rich and poor. The market revolution changed the America system and its beliefs, in the hope of new opportunities for jobs. The market revolution shaped America and the world about the concepts of labor, industrialization and the…
Industrialization was growing and spreading vigorously. Many more people became open to the ideas of industry/factories. In 1789, a young British man named Samuel Slayer emigrated to the US and built his one machines and started up the ideas of factories in the United States. Because of this many more people followed in his foot steps. Little later in 1813, the American Textile industry was revolutionized.…
Samuel Slater was born in Belper, Derbyshire, England on June 9, 1768. He became involved in the textile industry at the age 14. Samuel Slater worked in the industry for 8 years, which is why he is an English-American industrialist. Mr. Slater is known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution”, a phrase brought up by Andrew Jackson. He also was known as “Father of the American Factory System” and “Slater the Traitor” (In the UK) because he brought the British textile technology to America with a few modifications. Slater began the Textile industry all by himself. By the end of Slater’s life he owned thirteen spinning mills, established tenant farms, and towns around his textile mills such as Slatersville, Rhode Island. Slatersville was one of his first mill villages.…
The era in American history from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the century is known as The Gilded Age. It is considered as the time of the greatest economic, industrial and population expansion in America. The main diving force behind the industrial revolution was the new technology and the abundance of natural resources. The industrialization had a big impact on workers who lived in very bad conditions, had low wages and long hours of hard work. Workers created unions and tried to fight the problems by creating strikes that lead to use force and violence by government and police.…
The Industrial Revolution itself refers to affects from social, cultural and economic conditions. Throughout the years, changes have taken place in the home production to machine and factory and now modern technology. The Industrial Revolution (1820-1870) was of great importance to the economic development of the United States. In the late 18th century, Britain and Europe began the first Industrial Revolution. After sometime, the development centralized on the United States and Germany.…
Federal subsidies came with a catch; the railroad companies had to carry government freight, troops, and mail at substantially reduced rates, saving the federal government nearly $1 billion.…