From the time period of 1870 to 1900 the growth of big businesses in the United States had a major impact on the economy, politics, and the response of Americans of Americans to these changes. These businesses grew significantly in number, size, and influence and had an ever-lasting effect on Americans and their surrounding community. Industry and its new technologies have had an amazing impact on reducing the costs of the goods necessary to life, such as food prices, fuel and lighting prices, and the cost of living (Document A). The standard of living of most Americans should have increased, as more wages would be left over to spend on luxuries. Aware of the extra-money available to working families, the different pieces of a Big Business have acted in such a way to suck that extra-money from the poor families.
Due to the increase in production farmers and ranchers discovered quickly that they need more manual labors. To resolve the problem of needing labors the farmers and ranchers started importing foreigners for manual labor. When Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States of American, the economy for the country changed. Many Puerto Ricans were small farmers and cultivated a variety of corps and sold their products locally. When the Americans took over the country, the small farmers were bought out by the Americans.
| Immigrants from China arrived in the West looking for jobs on the expanding railroads. | The gap between rich and poor was a source of friction. | Economic or Type of Economy | This rapid growth of a manufacturing economy created a need for workers. | The South began developing its timber industry. Coal and iron deposits in the southern | The sparse population of the West did not support much industrial growth, and the economy continued to be based on natural resources.
The substantial increase in population due to immigration that occurs during this time goes on to affect the nation in positive and negative ways. Some of the adverse affects of such a rapid growth in population were overcrowding in cities, lack of jobs, and occasional food shortages. But the hard working spirit and work ethic that the immigrants brought, along with a determined will to succeed, were an overarching positive were crucial to the country becoming what it is today. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and emigrate to the United States. Immigrants entered into the United States through several
Many of them were illiterate with wives back in China. The Chinese weren’t settlers, but Sojourners. They planned to make enough money in the United States and return back to their homeland to start a business or buy land to farm. Japan was closed off from the West until the end of the 19th century because Shogun controlled the lesser feudal lords via hostage system, while the only outsiders that were permitted into Japan were Koreans and Chinese merchants. Before the Tokugawa Era, Portuguese missionaries were able to recruit up to 300,000 converts by the end of the 16th century.
The One Child Policy Under the Chinese History In the early period after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao believed that a strong nation should have a large population. However, with the development of society, China suffered many problems causing from the large population. The one-child policy was adopted in 1979, in response to the growing population. In the essay “The Little Emperors”, Daniela Deane points out several negative effects of the one-child policy, such as the “millions of abortions, fewer girls and a generation of spoiled children”(65). However, Chinese history has effected people’s mind and habits, so the one-child policy is not the only reason that causes these problems; in other words, the one-child policy effectively reduce the Chinese population.
American’s assumed they were entitled to the remaining gold in California. After a large group of unskilled laborers, moved to the U.S and started taking jobs, American attitudes became negative and hostile. As early as 1850, the government passed the “Foreign Miners’ License” law, which stated that twenty dollars a month must be paid by all foreign miners, but also brought along the effect of depopulating camps and seriously injuring some foreign miners (Norton). In the first half of the 19th century, a pseudo-slave trade had started in taking Chinese laborers under contract to work at a certain wage for a certain time in Cuba, and some places in South Africa. The Chinese unskilled workers were all ignorantly called “Coolies” when the word itself meant Koo for “rent” and lee for “muscle”.
A time it took place many times the documentary China Blue such as when there were Americans and people from other countries came to observe the factory. It has a big impact on buyers who plan to retail in stores, in a positive way reducing cost of bulk. This is because there is a reduction in international barriers such as tariffs, export fees, and import quotas. The losers in globalization as shown in documentary china blue are the workers at the factory. Workers become losers in this process because the producers have to sell their products close to dirt cheap which causes them to work more for cheaper.
Immigrant Power In the early 20th century the Untied States ports were inundated with immigrants from all over the world. The new immigrants, many from Eastern European countries, come to this new world with only their dreams of a better life and the clothes on their back. America promised immigrants high wages and a chance to start a new life of hope for themselves and their family. Upton Sinclair in The Jungle (1906) argues that immigration in the late 19th century and early 20th century influenced city expansion and education reforms though educational movements and union activities. Immigration would form great history with the United States through the labor force.
Despite the fact that several of the colonies had already created and implemented laws that restricted immigrants from certain countries, they were still eager to strengthen their policies by uniting and creating laws that assisted all colonies. At the time, there were particular prejudices against Chinese and Pacific Islanders. Since the Chinese immigrated in such large numbers during the ‘Gold Rush’ period, Pacific Islanders were also brought to work in the sugarcane fields. Many people believed that the ‘foreigners’ were taking their jobs away and their wages and working conditions were lowering since they accepted substandard