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Hace 4 días · By the late nineteenth century, the United States had become a leading global industrial power, building on new technologies (such as the telegraph and steel ), an expanding railroad network, and abundant natural resources such as coal, timber, oil, and farmland, to usher in the Second Industrial Revolution .
Hace 1 día · The market economy and factory system were not typical before 1850, but developed along transportation routes. Steamboats and railroads, introduced in the early part of the century, became widespread and aided westward expansion. [137]
Hace 2 días · Forests cleared for development, left only the remote mountain areas of the Catskills untouched and the once abundant fish and game became nearly extinct, leading to the demise of America's first “wilderness” by 1850. 1 Yet looking at View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains, one would never know this history.
Hace 4 días · Building Infrastructure: Carnegie Steel played a critical role in America's rapid industrialization, providing essential materials for building the nation's infrastructure. Steel from Carnegie's mills built bridges, skyscrapers, railroads, and ships, facilitating both economic growth and westward expansion.
Hace 2 días · When I was writing professional workshops on the Civil War and Industrialization it was important to include information on what our country's geography had to offer its citizens. I hope this provides you with some background material. In the world, as result of several mutually reinforcing influences, geographically, the United States was one of the most extensive countries, commanding the ...
Hace 5 días · The Choice for African Slave Labor in Plantation America', in Slavery in the Development of the Americas, ed. David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (Cambridge, 2004), 31–69. Back to (1) David B. Davis, Inhuman Bondage. The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Oxford, 2006), 48–76.
Hace 3 días · Frederick Douglass The politicians of the 1850s were acting in a society in which the traditional restraints that suppressed sectional conflict in the 1820s and 1850s – the most important of which being the stability of the two-party system – were being eroded as this rapid extension of democracy went forward in the North and South. It was an era when the mass political party galvanized ...
