With all these growing cites, it really changed the way people lived. Cities were getting extremely crowded and people really struggled to find a stable home. Also, with new railroads, it made it faster for people to get to places. Now, a one week trip was now able to be made in two to three days, which led to faster communication. It was easier and quicker to be able to talk to other people or meet up with family.
Explain how improvements in transportation and communication made possible the rise of the West as a powerful, self-conscious region of the new nation. With the market revolution, came a large influx of improvements in transportation and communication. Without these improvements the rise of the western United States would have been a far slower process. By 1784 the US population had boomed and after the War of 1812 the number of land seeking settlers was astounding. Prior too many critical inventions the processes to which America operated under changed little since the colonial era.
In May of 1869 the two major railroads of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific met in Utah. Due to this meeting it now meant that the railroads ran from coast to coast. Because of the fact that now the railways ran from one side of the country to the other it changed the face of the west as well as the United States as a whole, because it meant that places that were hard to reach before could now ship goods and produce in and out, cattle could be shipped by train instead of being driven across country, which took a long time, and people could travel faster and more easily from one place to another. The railroads lead to the industrial revolution by allowing heavy shipments of steel to be moved along the railways to other places in the country and thus allowed the building of factories and industrial
Apart from the social injustices, the progression and good far outweighed the bad. It was two steps forward and one step back while the economic effects were one huge leap forward and a just as big step back. There were more than a handful of inventions and discoveries that revolutionized American society, led to urban sprawl, made tasks exponentially easier, and were the centerpiece for recreation. Cars were mass produced and people decided to live outside the cities and take vacations more frequently. They produced many new jobs with the need for new roads since the American landscape was drastically expanding.
The main motive that pushed the Europeans to migrate to America was the search of a better life, one free of troublesome, one with religious freedom and one that they can succeed in. http://bookbuilder.cast.org/view_print.php?book=6522). History texts places a huge responsibility on Religion being the biggest motive for the Europeans moving to America being that in Europe there was a single state of religion that had to be practiced by all. Although, religious freedom was key to the Puritans, Quakers, Catholics, and Baptists that migrated to America, it was by no means the sole factor as seemingly suggested in many textbooks. Settlers continued to come to the America colonies, Scotch-Irish and Swiss settlers came, too, in search of a better life, wanting to have land of their own and enough food to fill their hungry stomachs.
Industrial Giant American manufacturing flourished for many reasons, for one new natural resources were discovered and exploited steadily, thereby increasing opportunities. These opportunities, in turn, attracted the brightest and most energetic and expanding population. The growth of the country added constantly to the size of the national market, and protective tariffs shielded that market from foreign competition. The foreign capitals entered the market freely, in part because tariffs kept out so many foreign goods. The first big business was railroads in 1886 by Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
The massive number of European immigrants that entered into America’s east coast from the late 1800’s and on forever influenced the growth and development of the country. Fleeing crop failure, famine, rising taxes, and land/job shortages, many immigrants journeyed to the United States because it was perceived as the land of economic opportunity. With hope for a brighter future, nearly 27 million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920. The majority of the immigrants entered through Ellis Island, leading it to become the gateway to America and become recognized as a national symbol. Many of the immigrants, not knowing the way America worked, didn’t stray too far from the East Coast and moved into areas filled with people of similar languages, traditions, and beliefs.
Early immigrants to America were looking for economic opportunity and political freedom and were willing to take the chance at new land. Late 1800’s America saw many European immigrants from Italy,Poland, Russia, and other southeastern Europe countries. 20th century has attracted other immigrants to America as the rate of immigration from Europe has slowed America has seen a increase of
America is one of the most diverse countries in the world because so many people immigrated to the United States in the past in search of new opportunities. Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. People from all over the world travel to the United States for a better life. Without diversity, the United States would not have the culture it does to this day. America needs immigration because immigrants help to develop new ideas, a diversity of culture, and they founded and helped to create the United States.
Los Angeles and London are both good examples of this process which began in the 1900’s and is still occurring today. In the early 20th century, The Pacific Electric Railway was built in LA which led to the spread of the population from the central business district area towards the outskirts and suburbs. People were able to move more efficiently, quickly and cost effectively. This effect was intensified by the ascendance of the automobile with the Model T. It helped fill in the gaps between these commuter towns with the lower-density settlements. People had a greater choice of where to live due to the convenience brought about by these improvements in transport.