The Cheesecake Factory

What Foner meant as the “Second Industrial revolution” was, “The country enjoyed abundant natural resources, a growing g supply of labor, an expanding marked for manufactured goods, and the availability of capital for investment…in addition, the federal government actively promoted industrial and agricultural development”.(1) The main components for the second industrial revolution started with the government granting land to railroad companies to encourage construction in the west and to also…

Nineteenth century England was expanding its barriers all over the globe; the acquisition of the colonies meant the growth of the British Empire. The fact that England was expanding caused the rise of an overseas commerce that provoked the increase of the English’s economy. This expansion together with the Industrial Revolution prompted different changes in the country. The Industrial Revolution was a process of evolution from traditional methods of manufacturing to more sophisticated ones, as…

Importance of American Technology WWI During the twenties, America experienced extreme development and urbanization. Many new inventions and innovations were made. Such as, steel, oil, and the assembly line along with many other inventions and innovations. Technology played a big role in World War I and continued to develop afterwards. It could be argued that steel and oil made America the way it is today. Steel was a very important aspect to the growth of America.Steel was needed to…

People were killed by gas and explosions. Factories had a negative impact on the cities. The worst period of unhealthy urbanisation was between 1815­ and 1850. However, the problems worsened as the cities became overpopulated. Another public health problem that people faced during the Industrial…

Chicago was a densely populated city in the late 18th century, but now Chicago is a powerhouse of the American economy. The city started out as a small, but a densely populated city that favoured more industrial jobs that required factories to be built in the heart of the city. But as a large number of immigrants began to move into the city, the demand for more jobs became enormous. In the textbook, “Making America,” the only way Chicago could handle the demand for jobs was to expand. This…

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…