foremost industrial power inthe world by 1900. i “Advanced Placement U.S. History I Lesson 25 Handout 25 {page 1] The Emergence of Industrial America Factors Supporting Western mining Immigration Government subsidies and tax concessions to railroads Advances in communication Corporation charters Laisscz faire attitude of government Bessemer process H New sources of power High tariffs Yankee ingenuity Entrepreneurs Vertical and horizontal integration n1. National markets Civil War profits and foreign investment
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advancements made life easier for the working class. Railroads‚ after spreading all over the nation‚ made any part of the country accessible and expanded the national market. Document B displays that the years 1870-1890‚ the number of railroads in the nations increased massively. Also‚ the number of railroads with major land grants grew as well. At first glance‚ this change seems to have benefited the farmers‚ but actually did the opposite. It is true that railroads allowed the farmers to expand and have a way
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Post-Civil War and Growing Pains Chuck Jones History 105 Dr. Rogers April 26‚ 2013 During the Post-Civil War era (1865-1900) there were several reconstruction periods as well as a widespread Western industrialization occurring. After the war it seemed as if the entire country had to press the “reset” button and literally start afresh. There was a break down in the south after the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves‚ Gen Custard destroyed cities‚ and what seemed to be a booming economy
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I. Reconstruction: Option 2 “Reconstruction can be summed up this way…” During reconstruction a major shift took place in our government. With the passing of the 13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th Amendments the United States had become a nation pressing toward equality. With the newly granted freedom to learn how to read and write‚ marry‚ practice religion‚ and vote it seemed as if blacks were in store for a better life. However for freed blacks most aspects of life were still heavily influenced by white southerners
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greatest economic revolution. Mainly‚ this industrial enhancement primarily a result of the completion of the transcontinental railroad‚ a transportation system that runs cross-country. Aside from impacting the economy‚ the railroad also affected the politics of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Since the political jobs were reserved for the upper class‚ investors in the railroad tended to have inflated bank accounts; thus‚ the available office positions were rewarded to these affluent individuals. Further
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province and northeastern Mojave Desert regions in 1810 than there was in the 1840s when the Pathfinder‚ John Fremont described these bands” (26). Before the arrival of European descendants‚ a dozen of Southern Paiutes lived north and west of the middle Colorado basin‚ which one of them was Las Vegas. Las Vegas was given its name by the Spaniards in the Antonio Amijo party‚ who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas. The areas of the Las Vegas
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million Native Americans lived in the West. Because they were seen as an additional obstacle to further White migration‚ the Native Americans were pushed from their lands and forced to radically change their cultures by the end of the century. By the 1870’s‚ most of the tribes had were destroyed or beaten into submission. Life of the Plains Indians 2/3 Natives lived on Great Plains. After they acquired the Spanish horse they took up a unique culture based upon nomadic hunting of the buffalo( gave
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where Eugene debs was born. He attended Terre Haute Public schools but had to drop out of high school at the age of 14 to start his job as a painter in railroad yards. In 1870‚ he became a fireman on the railroad.
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Iron became steel‚ oil refining became electric light and power‚ and the railroad system seized the American economy. “The railroads became America’s first big business” and therefore sparked the creation of 55‚000 jobs. (Roark et al. 542). With the need for railroads came the need for steel and Andrew Carnegie became the steel guru of the 1870’s. His workers “achieved the output Carnegie demanded by enduring low wages‚ dangerous working conditions‚ and twelve-hour
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I believe that the Chinese Immigration to the United States jumped from a few hundred a year to move 20‚000 in 1852 because of the gold in California. When the Chinese came over to the U.S. they headed to the Gold Country. They would‚ ‘send work back home about the riches to be found there’. ‘Chinese American miners soon became a common sight in the mountains of California’. The Chinese immigrants in America faced a lot of harassment/racism in the mid-1800s. A specific form of harassment was
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