In factories African Americans earned more money than they did as farm labourers. African Americans who migrated also started to build their own communities and founded the NAACP (National association of the Advancement of Colour People) . I think this alone impacted the status of African Americans greatly because now Africans were no longer in the country sides and were in the cities and towns, in industry. This meant that they had a bigger part to play in the economy of the USA. Although African Americans had greatly improved in their income and houses, many people didn't treat them any differently.
Economically, the position of Black Americans moved forward after 1945 as the FEPC ( was set up to help African Americans find jobs. The FEPC was set up in 1941 but most of it’s actions and effects took place after 1945. With this group set up, a lot fewer blacks were unemployed which saw them rise in the social scale as they were now seen more as normal working men. Blacks from the South migrated to the Northern industrial areas to gain jobs in the factories. This improved their position as it meant they were prospering and being able to afford better housing and lifestyles.
Edwar Pino HIST-2112 10/11/2011 Assignment #1 A Biography of America #16 “The West” This video starts out by telling us that America was an expanding empire in which government did not spend money, but it spend what it had the most of, land. Therefore, between 1860 and 1900 the government transformed land much more quickly than ever before, but most of the land that the government gave away ended up in the hands of a wealthy few. Thousands of Americans and immigrants shared Henry David Thoreau’s dream of finding freedom by heading west. In 1849, thinking of joining the East and West, a politician named William Gilpin told a mass meeting in Independence, Missouri, that the East should no longer hold the West in bondage. He stated,
ECO 306 Homework Ⅰ There have been plenty of researches by different economists that supported the idea that the railroad is an indispensable condition for modern American economic development. Indeed, evidence showed that cities become more metropolitan and more economically connected with each other after the construction of the railroad since 1840. However, Fogel believes that these evidence fail to establish the causality between the railroad and internal market development. In order to test whether railroad is really essential to American economy, Fogel sets up a counterfactual world where railroad is not an option so that people can only choose canals or wagons to transport. Based on his assumptions and qualitative evidence he computes
Those that did not follow the Swift model were destined to remain small local companies. Thus by the middle of the 1890s, the meat-packing industry, with the rapid growth of these great vertically integrated firms had become oligopolistic (the “Big Five” had the major share of the market) and bureaucratic; each of the five had its many departments and several levels of management. This story has parallels in other industries processing agricultural products. In tobacco, James B. Duke was the first to appreciate the growing market for the cigarette, a new product which was sold almost wholly in the cities. However, after he had applied machinery to the manufacture of cigarettes, production soon outran supply.
Before the railroads there were approximately 13 million people living in the United States, and the majority of them lived east of the Mississippi River.4 This was evident by the location of the larger cities in the United States. Of the five cities in the country with a population of more than 250,000 people before the 1930s, none of them lay west of the Mississippi.5 This was soon to change with the building of the first passenger train tracks to head west. According to the Poyntz Tylerís text, "the railroads took the small towns with lied along its tracks and turned them into centers of
Waterways were also a way for transportation, to cut out a lot of land, and cut out time. Waterways are a faster way for trade and barter. Steam boats were what pioneers used to travel down the waterways to trade and sell goods. Railroads were still used for closer travel, with items that did not need to get there as fast as possible, because railroad cars do not move very fast, although the steam engine improved the speed of transportation also. The United States did make rather large changes over 100 years, from 1776 to 1870.
This paper is on the history and development of Post WWII America: Technology, Business, Immigration, and Labor Policies up to the 1990s. Many things have improved since World War II and some things also haven’t improved. Some of the things that has improved are automobiles, radios, technology, and techniques to the way of life. There are very little things that have improved since the war because that business or factory that made that thing would sell out or plainly run out of business and another improvement up to the 1990s was decreased employment of farmers due to over production after the war. American began to change towards the end of the war by using most of the techniques or equipment used within the war.
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.
I grew up in a small /big city. Why did I use both, well I grew up in a small town compared to Atlanta, however it is the sixth largest city in the state. There were many counties around our area who frequent our city. Founded in 1860 because of the railroad we have always been the city to stop in for sites. After the railroad close down highway 20 was the way many people would find our city.