However, after he had applied machinery to the manufacture of cigarettes, production soon outran supply. Duke then concentrated on expanding the market through extensive advertising and the creation of a national and then world-wide selling organization. In 1884, he left Durham, North Carolina, for New York City, where he set up factories, sales, and administrative offices. New York was closer to his major urban markets, and was the more logical place to manage an international advertising campaign than Durham. While he was building his marketing department, Duke was also creating the network of warehouses and
One of the most important of all social changes was The Second Great Awakening. The era of good feelings wasn't just about social change but economic change too. The north was rapidly changing with the inventions of "iron horses" and steamboats and roads. The "iron horse" was the original name for trains in the US. They were called this because they moved as fast as a horse but they were more efficient because these "iron horses" didn't need rest which took a lot of time off travel.
The Centennial fair was marked the historic debut of the new and improved stem engine the Corliss engine. The fair was actually powered by the Corliss engine. The Corliss engine symbolized the strength and growth of the America since they declaration. This symbol that stood center of the Machinery Hall and powered 800 machines. Corliss engine changed industry production.
Not only did they weaken chartism support as many people had jobs and work to go to but also after being completed, railways allowed dispatching larger groups of troops around the country to trouble spots to become easier and quicker. By the late 1830’s the government had now become experienced in dealing with chartist matters. They were able to dispatch professional troops quickly and learned
By the early 1800s, the number of immigrants increased drastically. America was becoming a melting pot of different ethnicities including Germans, Swedish, Bohemians, English, French, and Polish. After the civil war, coming into the United States was made easier due to the innovations in steam-based engines for ships, allowing for larger ships to bring in immigrants in mass numbers. (Diner, 2008: 1) This exponential increase in immigrants was considered a threat to the nation’s security, which resulted in forcing government legislation to place regulations on immigration. In 1912, the National Origins Act was passed which restricted the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States and assigned slots according to quotas based on origins.
CHAPTER 28 The New Power Balance, 1850–1900 CHAPTER OUTLINE I. New Technologies and the World Economy A. Railroads 1. By 1850 the first railroads had proved so successful that every industrializing country began to build railroad lines. Railroad building in Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Russia, Japan, and especially in the United States fueled a tremendous expansion in the world’s rail networks from 1850 to 1900.
The industrialization of Manchester was successful for the modernization of man, yet its growth also raised many concerns in society. The health issues were one of the major problems raised from the growth of Manchester, since the spread of disease throughout the city was extremely common as presented in Document 6, “The annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation is greater than the loss from death in modern wars”. This shows how the rapid growth of Manchester created unsafe areas that easily allowed illness’s to be spread. Also, the physical conditions in the factories caused many problems for the workers’ health. A French women’s rights advocate, Flora Tristan, said that in the factories, “They (the workers) are all wizened, sickly and emaciated, their bodies thin and frail, their limbs feeble, their complexions pale, their eyes dead… O God!
Henry Ford was very famous for promoting this wonderful commodity that represented a new kind of freedom. It was a symbol of the American Dream, and everyone was striving to have the new product. “The automobile was the backbone of economic growth.” The first real automobile appeared in Middletown in 1900; however, it wasn’t until Henry Ford came around and created a mass production of automobiles that the machine that would provide easy travel would become popular. Although the automobile created such a wonderful freedom, many adults thought that it was tearing families apart. Teenagers were spending more time with their friends driving around instead of staying at home with their family.
Then with the adaption of electricity, Boston had a series of electric trolleys put in throughout the city. But these electric trolleys had setbacks. First of all the trolley system only went to certain parts of the city bypassing Tremont to Washington Street. Puleo then gets into how the trolleys’ greatest asset, speed, was made useless by the downtown congestion created by all the vehicles and trollies. Many of the riders complained that, “instead of riding inside trolleys, it would be quicker to walk across the roofs of the nose-to-tail cars at rush hour to reach a destination on time” (225).
Another efficient invention was the elevator, with the invention of the elevator businesses could now be built upwards instead of outwards, this meant now buildings would not take up as much as space. Elevators not only decreased the space in the cities but it eliminated the labor of having to carry heavy objects upwards. These three inventions changed America in every aspect of their lives and still do in today’s time. The greatest historical event in transportation in America occurred on May 10,