The railways, particularly the Trans-Siberian railway, also gave Eastern Russia a link to Europe and Western Russia a link to the Pacific Ocean, which made it easier to export Russian goods. Therefore the Russian governments’ investment in railways was extremely successful in promoting economic growth. The Russian government was also successful in improving Russia’s heavy industry through the introduction of tariffs on imports. This clearly helped Russian heavy industry to expand as steel production increase eightfold from 1880 to 1905 and petroleum production increased over 2500% during the same time period. These tariffs, introduced by Vyshnedgradsky and continued by Witte, both increased revenue for the government and made
The development also affected international and national tourists, who also had positive views of the development. The developments would result in better quality of service provided to them and more residential places to live in during their stay. Though with more modern buildings the older homes will be lost and so will much of its heritage, this is can be seen at a negative view by some tourist, but most would agrees that the developments are positive to an extent. Pyrmont’s identity is shaped by many factors and its heritage influences Pyrmont’s identity heavily. The late 20th century city life can still be observed in many parts of Pyrmont today, and some buildings are heritage sites, such as the old residential houses seen at John and Point Street.
KFF should research the market to find the needs of the customers. Big companies could be the perfect place to start the research like what kind of orders they place and when they order. Other sort of information could be found in the census reports like type and age of population, income, religion, education, occupation will help decide the needs of other consumers. This will help narrow down requirements for catering business. If the population is young then may be more wedding parties, bachelor parties, Halloween parties or if the population is older then more of formal parties in the gardens and vineyards.
One of them was new inventions such as radios TV’s and refrigerators. Many people bought these inventions because they thought it would benefit and make heir lives easier. The effects of these inventions are that it made it possible to keep food for a long time, enjoy shows without having to go to the theatre and listening to the news on the go. These inventions are still in use to this day, which shows how much of an impact it had on American life. A political change in the 1920 was the election of Calvin Coolidge.
They produced many new jobs with the need for new roads since the American landscape was drastically expanding. Advertisements not only made businesses prosper but gave people actual helpful information, such as the idea of keeping a much better personal hygiene being better for your health. Alternating electrical current increased energy efficiency tenfold compared to direct current since people could actually turn off their electricity. However, the Installment Plan created a country-wide idea that you could now buy what you really can’t afford and that made a lot of debt which eventually made the stock market crash leading to the Great Depression. Although there was a blotch on the great economic image of the twenties, the bigger smudge was on the cultural rifts that
While peasants worked the fields and the lords and ladies of the castle feasted, medieval merchants were sailing the seas around Europe and the Mediterranean. They traded in food, raw materials, and luxuries: wool from England, furs from Russia, wood from Scandinavia, salt and wine from France, horses from Spain, cloth and tapestries from Flanders, glass from Italy, and silks and spices from Asia. Trade made the merchants rich, and it also brought wealth to the rulers of the land in which the trading took place. Many of the rulers would demand a fee or a gift to them for allowing the foreigners to trade in their land, and they also taxed all traded goods. Numerous wars were fought over trade, because of the great profit it brought to the land.
The Way West Beginning in the early 1800’s, Americans began to look west. The start of the first railroads to the Pacific began and the path was anything but easy to navigate. The draw for expanding the railroad was not only the ability to travel faster and move goods throughout the country, but the railroad also gave people a sense of freedom to move about the lands of this vast country. With the larger populations of cities like New York and Boston building up and becoming more heavily crowded, many people were searching for a way to move outward where there was more space and more freedoms including mining, farming, and natural resources. Before the railroad, the only means of travel was by wagon, horseback, or boat.
Western Europe’s expansion of Atlantic trade, through exploration and colonization, not only improved their own economy, but also the economy of America, through sharing new trade products and crops as well as beginning the slave trade. Western Europe began exploring other parts of the world around the mid-1400s. They first started out with primarily explorers from Portugal and Spain. Some of these people were Christopher Columbus, Francisco
For many of the migrants from the mid United States in the 1930’s, the prospect of going to California inspired hope and promise. These ideas changed when the migrants found out that the Promise Land was not all that they had hoped for. The members of the Joad family are prime examples of this very experience in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. The Joads, a family from Oklahoma, plan on leaving their native state to go seek work in the prosperous state of California where the sun always shines. The Joads and the other traveling families would soon change their mind when they see that California was a place of despair and poverty amongst migrant workers.
American's could afford cars for the first time and started going on mini-vacation, known as weekend trips. What later led to the 'Great Depression' was a return to the federal government over stepping its duty by raising Taxes and again adding restrictions on business. The short term causes of the Great depression were easy credit, industrial production fell and in 1929 the boom had finished. Although it was responsible for tariffs contributing to farming struggle, the staple industry and also the technological unemployment were long term causes, but it did result in higher unemployment, that made people more eager to get jobs so they went out of the city for employment. In my opinion, I think the key contributor was the First World War which created the perfect opportunity for America's businesses to maximise their profits as they supplied the Allies with food and munitions, they also took over markets that had previously been under Britain and Germany's control.