As President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.” Although the height of his success came after the Industrial Revolution, his words still manage to resonate with the general message of industrialization. However, the one thing his quote does not mention are the people that partially suffered from the effects of industrialization. The era of Industrial Revolution was one that will forever leave an impression on American history. Industrialization changed the United States in regards to the economy, new political policies, the geography of the United States, and the social aspect of the US public.
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There were new groups that sought political change in the US because of new industrialization and production techniques. One of these such groups was the Progressives. Progressivism is a political movement that deals with the issues that arose from modernization and industrialization (Fox). Industrialization caused many social issues which Progressives wanted to deal with. Progressives wanted to improve the living and working conditions of the urban poor, control power and exploitation of workers by big businesses, make government more efficient, democratic, and responsive to all of the people, and also fought for change in environmental conservation, food safety, and civil rights. One of the biggest political changes that came out of the industrialization era was the passing of the Seventeenth Amendment, which stated that there shall now be direct election of Senators by the public people (as opposed to by sometimes corrupt state legislatures). Some events including the Triangle Shirtwaist fire led to increased fire inspections, increased safety equipment, and sanitation monitored by the US …show more content…
More people flocking to factory cities for work, and immigrants not having money to move out of port cities meant crowded spaces including tenements and segregated ghettos. When there was no more horizontal room to grow, industrialization and urbanization pushed growth vertical. Buildings began growing taller with new ways to produce steel in the 1850’s, because the building material could support the weight of a tall building better than iron (Fox). In 1800, one in 20 Americans lived in urban areas, while in 1860, one in six Americans lived in urban areas. This need for commercial items and goods changed once rural areas into urban ones. One example of this is the growth of Chicago, which in 1800 didn’t exist, and then in 1900 had a population 1,698,575, the largest population of a city in the US at that time apart from New York
Industrialization …show more content…
There were new groups that sought political change in the US because of new industrialization and production techniques. One of these such groups was the Progressives. Progressivism is a political movement that deals with the issues that arose from modernization and industrialization (Fox). Industrialization caused many social issues which Progressives wanted to deal with. Progressives wanted to improve the living and working conditions of the urban poor, control power and exploitation of workers by big businesses, make government more efficient, democratic, and responsive to all of the people, and also fought for change in environmental conservation, food safety, and civil rights. One of the biggest political changes that came out of the industrialization era was the passing of the Seventeenth Amendment, which stated that there shall now be direct election of Senators by the public people (as opposed to by sometimes corrupt state legislatures). Some events including the Triangle Shirtwaist fire led to increased fire inspections, increased safety equipment, and sanitation monitored by the US …show more content…
More people flocking to factory cities for work, and immigrants not having money to move out of port cities meant crowded spaces including tenements and segregated ghettos. When there was no more horizontal room to grow, industrialization and urbanization pushed growth vertical. Buildings began growing taller with new ways to produce steel in the 1850’s, because the building material could support the weight of a tall building better than iron (Fox). In 1800, one in 20 Americans lived in urban areas, while in 1860, one in six Americans lived in urban areas. This need for commercial items and goods changed once rural areas into urban ones. One example of this is the growth of Chicago, which in 1800 didn’t exist, and then in 1900 had a population 1,698,575, the largest population of a city in the US at that time apart from New York