With railroads, people can travel across the country in a much faster rate and easier fashion (class lecture). Right before the Civil War, railroads already covered three-fourths of the American map with thirty thousand miles of railroad tracks (301). After the Civil War in the Gilded Age, railroads were becoming much more efficient and cheaper for the regular middle class people (class lecture). Transportation was innovated with the use of natural resources such as coal, oil, and iron (520). In a way, transportation made the nation bigger in terms of expansion, but it also made the nation smaller in a way that people can travel far distances in a much faster…
During the 1800s while extensive railroad construction was occurring, many positive and negative things happened. Some of these events included spreading trade throughout the country, an increase in racist feelings, a rise in jobs for the poor and a lot of fighting with Native Americans. All of these as well as an increase in Patriotism through the idea of the Manifest Destiny occurred because of the Railroad construction. These events helped transform the United States, and link several parts of the nation together allowing for an era of unparalleled development.…
Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the industrial revolution in the North-east 1810–50 to the settlement of the West 1850–1890. The American railroad mania began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828 and flourished until the Panic of 1873 bankrupted many companies and temporarily ended growth. Although the South started early to build railways, it concentrated on short lines linking cotton regions to oceanic or river ports, and the absence of an interconnected network was a major handicap during the Civil War. The North and Midwest constructed networks that linked every city by 1860. In the heavily…
The last blow to the final rail spike in Utah sent a wave of excitement and achievement across America. Travel by the new railroad coast to coast in a week. “American Experience: Transcontinental Railroad” the video explained the results of the railroad being built, people who built it, and the sacrifices Indians faced. The major result of building Transcontinental Railroad was that for the first time in history American coasts were connected.…
During the Gilded Age in America, a new movement of techology and wealth spread throughout the country. Industrialization rapidly swept through the nation and urbanized many western areas including the Great Plains and California. White colonist took this as an opportunity to expand westward though this brought destruction to the native americans, while poverty and overpopulation in Japan encouraged migration to America to find their own riches. During the time period of the Gilded Age, the Gold rush was also a prominent movement. White settlers from the east heard of untod rishes in the west and started to make their claim on land in and around california.…
American life in this era changed greatly with the huge influx of immigrants, increase in technological advances in railroading, and the rise of the United States as a world industrial power. Immigration was a major social development in the late 1800s.…
Land was also substantially cheaper and much more plentiful the farther away from the city you got, which in turn, would allow for big businesses to put a foothold in American society. Simply due to the invention of the automobile growth doubled in the suburbs and allowed for people to commute to work, thus allowing for greater economic growth. Furthermore, the automobile greatly stimulated and even started the creation of many new jobs. This phenomenon helped change American society towards a more prosperous…
As the 19th century drew to a close, numerous English cities, one being London, England, transformed from being a rural society to an urban society. The rapid development of cities served as both a rising and uniting factor in advanced economic, political and social life. In modern times, urbanization is rapidly growing, thus creating megacities like Wuhan, China with a population of nine million inhabitants. The shift from agrarian based societies to metropolitan based societies has and is still improving the lives of people all around the world.…
Industrialization after the Civil War The industrialization that occurred shortly after the civil war in America brought many changes to the American economy and society. Three main aspects of industrialization that influenced the U.S economy and society were the construction of the railroad, the formation of labor unions and changes in agriculture. In addition, several groups of people were affected by the industrialization; this includes women, immigrants, and African Americans. Industrialization had both positive and negative effects on the average life of working Americans during this period as people were forced to work for many hours and live in big cities that were exposed to environmental hazards such as smoke from factories.…
Suburbanization a populace shift from central urban regions into rural areas, bringing about development of (sub)urban sprawl. Suburbanization is contrarily identified with urbanization, which indicates populace shift from provincial territories into urban focuses. Numerous inhabitants of metropolitan areas work inside the focal urban range, and live in satellite groups called rural areas and drive to work through car or mass travel. Others have exploited mechanical advances to work from their homes. These procedures regularly happen in all the more monetarily created nations, particularly in the United States, which is accepted to be the principal nation in which most of the populace lives in suburbia, as opposed to in the urban communities…
Traveling Across Time As the United States was created with the writing of the Constitution, a bond was formed that connected each and every state. Now there was a need to create a physical connection within the states, attaching them to one another, and pushing the new founded country into the frontier. Means of transportation had nowhere to go but up, seeing that few people owned horses and most people, especially the poor, walked to their destinations. Wagon trails were also spanned across the continent, but were easily hindered by weather.…
The new movement, as a response to the widespread of the suburban development, has been in existence for the past decade. Palen (2015), explained “Urbanism is a social and behavioral response to living in certain places” (p. 9). According to The movement emerged in the United States as another option to the design of its predecessor. It is aimed to improve urban design through the use of many different principles. The principles and practices of the move: the movement promotes the creation and restoration of the communities which contain housing, work places, shops, entertainment, schools and parks.…
There have been trends that shaped America and helped it to grow. These trends boosted populations in other parts of the United States that were rural and then became urban. A lot of the growth came from new technologies such as low-cost transportation. We will learn what it took to get some of the newer cities going.…
4.1.3 Urbanization and population size Urbanization and population size are closely linked to the land economic density and they are the important factors to increase the economic density. With the accelerated development of the urbanization, more and more rural population swarms into city, which will ask for more housing and a good living environment quality objectively, so that the building area is expanding gradually in space. In addition, in the process of urbanization, with the production factors and labor force gathered in the city continuously, the city industrial structure will be upgraded and optimized; the productive and technological level will be raised as well. The higher of the productivity, the output capacity of the land is…
Background and Significance In the past half century, the world populous has dramatically shifted from rural environments into urban centers. In 1950, as little as 30% of the world 's population resided in urban centers. Now, that proportion has risen to 50% and is predicted reach over 70% by 2050 (“World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision, Highlights”). This shift in the world 's populous has been termed urbanization, which is the increase in number of cities and amount of people that inhabits them (Turan, & Besirli, 2008).…