Burlington Coat Factory

Imagine being a college student and you spend most of your summers working on a factory floor. Now think about the real-life lessons you would learn from the factory floor. The early mornings, the long hours for low pay, the people that work there for most of their lives, and the possibility of the job itself not existing due to overseas relocation. Now all these are life lessons that are slowly teaching you to appreciate being a college student. And that is exactly what the author, Andrew…

America was destined for greatness, and westward expansion in the 1800’s helped fulfill that destiny by providing America with the need to expand. This is not destiny in the sense of the inevitable, but instead in the sense that it was beneficial to the white man settled in America. In fact, during this time Irish and German immigrants began travelling to America, which led to overpopulation in the northeast (“United States Population Density”). This overpopulation forced white settlers living…

great inventions, new machinery, and the rise of multiple factories. The Industrial Revolution had made hard labor easier for the people. Although, since more factories had opened, people would hire children. This is called Child Labor. During the time of the Industrial Revolution, the problem of Child Labor had occurred. Child Labor is wrong because kids did not have safe working conditions and this unsafe practice was regulated by the Factories Act of 1833. While Child Labor was happening,…

A dude named Samuel Slater came to the United States and copied the European factory system. Then a dude named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and the manufacturing technique of interchangeable parts. Manufacturing with interchangeable parts made the whole system much smoother, quicker, and more efficient. Additionally, the cotton…

In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century the Industrialization in the United States occurred and is where innovative changes happened. This period of time was portrayed mostly by the substitute of hand made production by machine production. Many social and economic alterations resulted, therefore changing the way of people's lives, such as the farmers, working class, and middle class. The society desired for new ideas of manufacturing that a variety of change given, leaving…

independent and extremely wealthy. For instance, between 1878 and 1900, the gross national product more than doubled, from 7.4 to 18.7 billion (Hatheway 36). The North, an industrial powerhouse, encouraged many people to become employed in several factories and industries. By 1800, five million Americans were industrial employees, especially immigrants, women, and children (Lutz, "Labor Conditions"). Between 1880 and 1900, the numbers of employed women soared from 2.6 million to 8.6 million…

Industrialization of the late 19th century changed American society and made it an industrial giant. Along with old industries new industries like petroleum refining, steel manufacturing and electrical power came into being. Expansions of the railroad made possible the shift of people, raw materials, and crops to the national market. Invention of steel plows, windmills and barbed wire helped in farming and ranching. Americans experienced a great change in their life times as the result of…

was the Transcontinental Railroad. The railroad was built in 1867, it traveled across the United stated and made traveling a lot faster and cheaper. What would normally take 6-8 month journey can now be done in only 4-6 days. Factories could ship products to other factories to allow their companies and cities to grow across the East and West. Settlement of the West increased…

There are many factors that can be credited for the growth of the American economy between 1790 and 1860. Some of these factors include change in communication, change in agricultural production, and change in transportation. But there are two factors that played a huge role in that growth, they are: changes in transportation and changes in agricultural production. Changes in Transportation According to Meyer (n.d.), in the 1820s through the1830s government and private sources invested a lot of…

Factories would appear in the larger cities and it was rumored that living near a factory would mean a better future. As Dr. Gayle said in his article, “all such industrial production had two things in common: they took advantage of the cheap and abundant natural resources; and they used simple…