The process of industrialization and immigration led to the Progressive Movement. Industrialization is the use of machines in factories to produce goods. Immigration is the movement of people from one place to another. The Progressive Movement attempted to deal with corruption in politics and big business. All of these issues helped to shape the American nation and its people.
Industrialization in the United States occurred rapidly in comparison to other nations and also produced drastic changes in the nation’s economy, social structure, and, most importantly, in labor. One factor of industrialization that aided in changing the nation was rapid urbanization. Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, Americans slowly urbanized and industrialized but by the beginning of the twentieth century urbanization boomed. For example, in 1870 only about one out of every four Americans lived in urban areas and by 1920s more than half of the population resided in urban areas.1 On top of rapid urbanization, the United States experienced rapid population growth from approximately 31,000,000 in 1860 to 92,000,000 in 1910. This increase was partly due to an influx of immigrants.
This was a major opportunity within the airline industry since the global number of passengers increased from 450 million to 700 million between1990 and 2000 mainly due to the retiree that were travelling for leisure. Fuel prices and labor costs increased during the year 2000 which led to a rise in the airline cost. Air travel increased to 160 per cent from 1978 to 2000. Despite this increase, US airline RPKs (the average revenue per passenger kilometer) went down by 2.5 per cent per annum. The business model for Full Service Carriers (FSCs) main focus was to provide product quality and service to lots of cities.
Slavery and population had a big affect on the next 100 years of the United States history. The US also changed diversely with new innovations like roads, waterways, railroads, steamboats, and refrigerated railroad cars. A few new innovations that changed or improved from 1776 to 1870 are the roadways, waterways, railroads, steamboats, and refrigerated railroad cars. Roadways were an innovation that created a way for easier, and faster transportation. Waterways were also a way for transportation, to cut out a lot of land, and cut out time.
Urbanization in the United States The phenomena of urbanization in the United States happened from a variety of factors and brought about many consequences. Industrialization was one of many reasons there was a gradual shift of people from rural areas to more urban areas. Transportation was a deciding factor too. Immigration played another important role in the growing of our early cities. Strategic geographical factors also led to the faster development of certain cities like NYC.
When Witte placed emphasis on industrialisation, it meant that jobs were created in towns and cities. Serfs came from rural areas in the hope of a better way of life, which led to urban areas quickly expanding. The populations of Moscow and St. Petersburg more than doubled between 1881 and 1910. A large textiles industry grew around Moscow
The Industrial Revolution was a time of rapid development in industry that began in Europe, especially Great Britain, in the late eighteenth century, then spread to the United States and other countries. It was brought about by the introduction of machinery, and was characterized by the growth of factories and the mass production of manufactured goods . During this time, new technologies were created and made available to the public through the use of new production and transportation methods. Manufacturing goods became much easier, new businesses began, and as a result, America grew, both in population and influence. However, due to the Industrial Revolution, America began to stray from the vision the founding fathers had for the nation in the late 1700’s and 1800’s.
By 1890, several cities touted populations over 1 million people and by 1900, New York City was the second largest city in the world, outranked only by London. Huge population increases contributed to the poor living conditions of many urban Americans, which was characterized by filth, poverty and pollution. Economic change and growth were also evident. Mass production increased, and along with it, the availability of material goods. The nation’s workforce expanded and Record numbers of women and children joined the workforce.
So "during the 19th century, the society and economy were completely altered due to the many new inventions created"(Essay written by Haisam Daouk, Hayat Showail, Kristelle Manassian, and Shahnaz Maktabi). Also, population increased all over the world. The rate of Industrial growth in 1913 right before the World war one increased dramatically in UK, France, Germany, Russia, and Italy. These five countries(and Austria-Hungary) are the main countries of World War one. These events all lead to Militarism, a better economy and foreign trade, led to countries having more money to buy weapons.
Many functionalists believe that industrialisation led to an increase in the nuclear family type. The nuclear family is a type of family that consists of just two generations; this is parents and their children. An American sociologist Talcott Parsons studied the impact of urbanisation on family structure in American and British history. Parsons thought that the dominant family structure changed from extended to nuclear because it was more useful for industrial society. A few of the key ideas he discovered were that lots of functions that the family would take care for in a pre-industrial society were now taken care of by the state in industrial society such as health care or education.