Some of the more prominent tradesmen owned their owned stores or shops (Anbinder, 2001, p. 15-16). As the area, which was once a place of beauty around the Collect, or the large lake in the area, slowly became degraded as pollution from the slaughterhouses and tanneries on its far side took their toll. As the immigrant population grew, the Irish coming in soon became its largest segment. Their opportunities
Joan Lee Period 1, AP Us History 5 January 2010 Chapter 25 America Moves to the City 1865-1900 Through industrial revolutions, many Americans began to abandon their agrarian farm lives and grasp the life of the City. Not only were Americans following this trend, many Europeans begun to desert farming and search for fresh job opportunities in the cities. This instigated a prodigious increase of city dwellers and minimized the amount of farmers in the U.S. I. The Urban Frontier (pages 557-560) a.
People lost their homes and farms leaving many people to starve. A lasting effect was made to transform the federal government towards the economy. The federal government took charge for elderly population with creation of Social Security to give involuntarily unemployment compensation. With the introduction of Wagner Act changed the way negotiations happened between labors and employers by promoting unions. All this helped in the increase in size of the federal government.
Since the serf population had gotten ridiculously low, plantation owners were forced to start paying workers to tend the farms. (Gottfreid, pg. 55) The same effect was applied to factories, and the wages rose in attempt to get more workers. The poor were moving into deserted houses, and many began to live better. On farms that had become vacant, peasants took ownership and started making more money.
Both the upper and lower classes were changed and they both had different experiences. Economic theories were developed as a direct effect of the revolution, economic theories such as capitalism and communism. Each theory benefited different social classes and each theory had its flaws. The industrial revolution caused the growth of cities to skyrocket. The majority of people in Europe lived in rural areas before the revolution and after the majority of people lived in urban areas.
America has faced many down falls through out the years including economic downfalls which caused depressions, poverty, and social inequalities. Many attempts to re- invent America and over turn these many crises have been produced to help ease a better way of American living. Policies were invented such as The New Deal, The Great Society and “war on poverty” in hopes of over turning the economic downfalls that were being faced. The New Deal invented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, was a group of social and economic programs to help with relief for the unemployed, reform of financial practices and recovery of the economy during the Great Depression. These different programs helped with such things as creating new jobs for the unemployed, federal relief for those in need of it, the need for education for under privileged groups as well as the restoration of production and stability in banking, agricultural and industry, (WBA, 416).The New Deal eventually transformed the way federal government worked after the depression, having more of a direct relationship with local communities as well as supplying help and relief to those in need.
Cody Ganarial Journal #1 The changes in Hawaiian culture resulted from the arrival of the missionaries from Europe. These people traveled to Hawaii to spread Christianity. One of the first Hawaiians to convert was Henry Opukaha’ia. He became so dedicated to his newfound religion that he traveled to the United States in 1808 to expand his knowledge. He spent 10 years in Connecticut attempting to assemble missionaries that would assist him in spreading the gospel to the Sandwich Islands.
Karl Marx Marx was interested in the role economic forces played in the functioning of society. Karl Marx lived most of his adult life in England, during this time he saw the growth in factories and industrial production. He was surprised by the inequalities that resulted because of this development, even though more goods were produced than ever before. Marx saw the rise of an economic system whereby, more goods and services where produced to sell to a wide range of consumers, but by so doing, this system divided society into two main classes; the bourgeoisie, who were the factory owners, and the proletariat, who provided the labour force in the factories (Giddens 2001:11). According to Marx, this economic system which he termed capitalism created an exploitative relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, since the proletariat had little or no control over the distribution of profits and the labour which they provided (Giddens 2001:12).
Romantic authors were a diverse group of individuals, with a variation of backgrounds, religious beliefs and individual points of view. The Industrial Revolution in Britain saw the migration of rural citizens into towns and cities, causing overpopulation and poverty, as manufacturing developed because of new technology. The societal class structure was changing rapidly and a new wealthy class was beginning to emerge through trade. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars influenced writers during this era as they began to question societal values; choosing to explore ideas of liberty and equality. Austen's writing was arguably influenced by social and economic transformations during this time.
Husband & wife roles – the male was the ‘instrumental leader’. The male was this role because he was the one who worked and brought home the money to provide for his wife and children. Then the woman was the ‘expressive leader’ - this role was to look after the children. Although, Young and Willmott’s theory states that in pre-industrial times, most families were nuclear and worked together (interdependent). Then in early industrial times, industrialisation separated the home and work for working class families, as they moved into cities to work in factories and mines.