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Farming biggest step The industrial revolution of the 1800s made a huge impact on American agriculture, everything from the western expansion of the railroads to education in agriculture. The civil war marked a great turning point in America’s history, in the last decades of the country factories and steel mills appeared on the scene fueled by immigrant labor. The great transcontinental railroads linked the country like never before. Before the industrial revolution most of the people in the…

In the 1800s, many Americans began to drink excessively. This was partly due to economic and social problems that occurred during and after the time of the American Revolution. Alcohol was abused daily. Instead of money, workers were given drinks as a method of payment. It was not long before people learned that alcohol caused health problems such as anxiety, permanent brain damage, and alcoholism. Americans also came to the conclusion that alcohol was the cause of many crimes. There were over…

this would be America and varies European countries. Looking at our current presidential race a “hot topic” is immigration. But, if we were to look back at world history immigration is nothing that has recently began to become popular. Back in the 1800’s people heard of America the land of opportunity.…

Prior to 1800, medical health in the United States was a "family affair." In the old days, women were required to care for illnesses within the family, and only in very rare and life threatening serious illnesses, where doctors requested. In the united States early…

A Social worker can be a person who helps individuals, groups, and/or communities gain a better life emotionally, physically and economically (Social Worker). Social work was first documented in the early 1800s with the main focus of helping the poor in urban areas. The individuals who usually tended to the poor were women, particularly minister 's daughters (Zastrow 41). These women would try to help the poor with their economic and emotional difficulties by means of religious counselling. Some…

The United States is the only industrialized country in the world that does not use the metric system as its main system of measurement. In the early 1800's, the government's surveying and mapmaking agency or the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey used meter and kilogram standards brought from France. In 1866, Congress allowed the use of the metric system in this country and gave each state a set of standard metric measures and weights. In 1875, the US promised its commitment to the development of…

By the late 1800s, society was tired of the same generic art and literature and wanted a change. Modernism was the result of the that. American Gothic by Grant Wood and The Trial by Franz Kafka are fantastic examples of Modernism. Modernism changed the world and how we see it today. Without Modernism who knows what art and literature may be like today. Modernism is a movement in the arts as well as a change of mindset. This movement lasted from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth…

The Cherokee Indians had lived in northwest Georgia, but in the 1800s many whites begin to settle there. Georgia believed the state had the right to this land because it was within the borders of Georgia, but the Cherokee Indians had lived there for centuries and felt they had a right to the land. Many Cherokees adapted a more American lifestyle and some became plantation owners or store owners. The Cherokee Nation also created a constitution that was similar to the Constitution of the United…

Industrialization in the 1800’s was a large change to the many lives of citizens in the United States, from the technology to their ways of life. Starting from the advancement of technology, rail roads were becoming predominate and making way throughout the United States. Rail roads have been making life easier for farmers and traveler’s alike making transportation of goods and trips around the country cheap and easy. Till the time came to raise the cost of traveling goods. But rail roads can’t…

which the industrial revolution introduced mass production and mass distribution and with it, new concepts of time, space and economic realities. This led to the transformation and modernization of sports as we know it. In the mid 1700’s and early 1800’s, colonial Americans were fairing much better in America than their predecessors a century before. The work during this time still consisted of back breaking, dusk ‘til dawn work on farms growing and cultivating the land for profit.…