One Step Forward and Two Steps Back
As the Civil War, one of the bloodiest conflicts in this nation’s history, came to a close the imminent changes developed a new environment socially, politically, and economically for Americans. The process of restoring the unity of the United States known as Reconstruction established a new way of life for freed slaves but also deprived them of several human rights as well, while the following advancement in manufacturing and transportation paved the way for new forms of success in the era of Industrialization. Although these two events are different in some ways they both have an overall result of no true winners or losers. To begin one must look to the end of the Civil War and how its end brought about the beginning of a new era for freed people in America. As the Civil War ended so did the cotton industry as it no longer had access to a large free labor force. In an effort to hold on to their old ways of life and ideals, several Southerners established white supremacy groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League. These groups are most known for the terror acts made against the newly …show more content…
Factory systems and new advances in technology made manufacturing goods a booming business. This lead to the rise of a select few individuals to economic power like Andrew Carnegie and his vertical integration system or John D. Rockefeller and his horizontal integration. As these so-called “robber barons” got richer those who were less fortunate only seemed to get worse. Urbanization would soon develop in cities to accommodate the large influx in population but it would not be a positive change as families would be crammed into small and destitute living quarters. Soon the apparent winner like the robber barons would realize that a rising tide should raise all ships as without consumers their products would be worth
As the Civil War, one of the bloodiest conflicts in this nation’s history, came to a close the imminent changes developed a new environment socially, politically, and economically for Americans. The process of restoring the unity of the United States known as Reconstruction established a new way of life for freed slaves but also deprived them of several human rights as well, while the following advancement in manufacturing and transportation paved the way for new forms of success in the era of Industrialization. Although these two events are different in some ways they both have an overall result of no true winners or losers. To begin one must look to the end of the Civil War and how its end brought about the beginning of a new era for freed people in America. As the Civil War ended so did the cotton industry as it no longer had access to a large free labor force. In an effort to hold on to their old ways of life and ideals, several Southerners established white supremacy groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League. These groups are most known for the terror acts made against the newly …show more content…
Factory systems and new advances in technology made manufacturing goods a booming business. This lead to the rise of a select few individuals to economic power like Andrew Carnegie and his vertical integration system or John D. Rockefeller and his horizontal integration. As these so-called “robber barons” got richer those who were less fortunate only seemed to get worse. Urbanization would soon develop in cities to accommodate the large influx in population but it would not be a positive change as families would be crammed into small and destitute living quarters. Soon the apparent winner like the robber barons would realize that a rising tide should raise all ships as without consumers their products would be worth