Unit 2(Chapters 5-8) Term Paper The age of rapid urbanization was upon the United States in the early 19th century was a big push for most Americans, giving up their farmsteads and pitchforks for skyscrapers and hammers. Americans moving from rural areas to begin with was a rough start, just after the civil war tensions and racism still was very prevalent in the segregated south so many African Americans chose to move to the urban north to try and escape the racial violence. Once the populations in cities began to rise dramatically inventors came out of the cracks to provide products to help boost quality of life, from Andrew Carnegie and his revolutionary Bessemer Steel Process to Thomas Edison and his safe system of producing and
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Ellis Island in the east allowing the immigrants a place in our society, jobs, and a new way of life. Angel Island then in the west, a harsher environment only allowing those who proved themselves worthy of the title of “American” to join us in our country. The ideals of a new society to be winners as Social Darwinism states that if you 're capable mentally you will succeed; that it’s a dog eat dog world, you either survive or you 're pushed under by the climbing socialites in their penthouse suites with their gold watches and fancy suits on. We had many a genius innovator climb this ladder and show their skills to the world adding just one more thing to help us reach where we are today. Do we have ill lit building? Then Edison invents the incandescent light bulb and an efficient system to allow that bulb to receive electricity. Transportation from home to work, well Charles Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank created the efficient internal combustion engine for the automobile to assist transportation. With the need for oil to power all of these new inventions and to pave roads Rockefeller with Rockefeller oil came out of the cracks and made millions selling his oil. Rockefeller used Horizontal integration to control the oil business effectively creating a monopoly owning the only company selling …show more content…
We faced racial injustice with our African American population which lasted until 1955 when the supreme court completely overruled it and deemed it unconstitutional. We had Captains of Industry like Rockefeller and Carnegie throwing large amounts of jobs to the general public and giving back large amounts of money for charitable causes. Turning steel and oil to prime exports of America. Having companies like Credit Mobilier and corrupt political machines like Tammany Hall take advantage of federal funds committing fraud. The vast amounts of Immigrants coming into America and becoming part of our culture. In turn this period of change was extremely important to the development of American society, without the changes made in the period of urbanization we wouldn’t have many of the common amenities we have and take for granted in our everyday
Ellis Island in the east allowing the immigrants a place in our society, jobs, and a new way of life. Angel Island then in the west, a harsher environment only allowing those who proved themselves worthy of the title of “American” to join us in our country. The ideals of a new society to be winners as Social Darwinism states that if you 're capable mentally you will succeed; that it’s a dog eat dog world, you either survive or you 're pushed under by the climbing socialites in their penthouse suites with their gold watches and fancy suits on. We had many a genius innovator climb this ladder and show their skills to the world adding just one more thing to help us reach where we are today. Do we have ill lit building? Then Edison invents the incandescent light bulb and an efficient system to allow that bulb to receive electricity. Transportation from home to work, well Charles Edgar Duryea and his brother Frank created the efficient internal combustion engine for the automobile to assist transportation. With the need for oil to power all of these new inventions and to pave roads Rockefeller with Rockefeller oil came out of the cracks and made millions selling his oil. Rockefeller used Horizontal integration to control the oil business effectively creating a monopoly owning the only company selling …show more content…
We faced racial injustice with our African American population which lasted until 1955 when the supreme court completely overruled it and deemed it unconstitutional. We had Captains of Industry like Rockefeller and Carnegie throwing large amounts of jobs to the general public and giving back large amounts of money for charitable causes. Turning steel and oil to prime exports of America. Having companies like Credit Mobilier and corrupt political machines like Tammany Hall take advantage of federal funds committing fraud. The vast amounts of Immigrants coming into America and becoming part of our culture. In turn this period of change was extremely important to the development of American society, without the changes made in the period of urbanization we wouldn’t have many of the common amenities we have and take for granted in our everyday