History Assigment
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his105_assignment_outline.docxIndustrialization after the Civil War influenced many aspects of life in the United States. The changing American landscape in the antebellum period was visible in economic, political, and social areas, in both positive and negative ways.
I. Economy
A. Machines replacing Manual Labor
1. Division of Labor / Specialization
B. Railway network increasing distribution of goods
1. Raw materials shipped to factories
2. Completion of first transcontinental railway
II. Society
A. Expansion of Middle Class and increase in income gap
1. Increase in Child Labor
2. Large amounts of Underprivileged and Scarcity of Jobs
B. Large movement of people from rural to urban areas / Increase in Immigration
1. Overall population of United States doubled between 1870 and 1916
C. End of frontier life
1. Homestead Act of 1962 came to logical conclusion with end of Westward Expansion
III. Politics
A. Establishment of Progressive reformers
1. Strove to end Government Corruption / make Responsible to the People
2. Worked to Reduce Poverty and Improve Living Conditions
3. Women’s Suffrage
B. Creation of Labor Unions
1. AFLCIO bargained to gain Better Wages and Working Conditions
2. National Grange and Farmers’ Alliance forced Railways to lower operations costs
C. Regulation of Big Business
1. Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” for Americans and involvement in United Mine Workers strike
2. Taft introduces Underwood Tariff Act of 1913
Industrialization after the Civil War influenced many aspects of life in the United States. The
changing American landscape in the antebellum period was visible in economic, political, and
social areas
, in both positive and negative ways.
I.
Economy
A.
Machines replacing Manual Labor
1.
Division of Labor / Specialization
B.
Railway network increasing distribution of goods
1.
Raw materials shipped to factories
2.
Completion of first transcontinental railway
II.
Society
A.
Expansion of Middle Class and increase in income gap
1.
Increase in Child Labor
2.
Large amounts of Underprivileged and Scarcity of Jobs
B.
Large movement of people from rural to urban areas
/ Increase in Immigration
1.
Overall population of United States doubled between 1870 and 1916
C.
End of frontier life
1.
Homestead Act
of 1962 came to logical conclusion with end of Westward
Expansion
III.
Politics
A.
Establishment of Progressive reformers
1.
Strove to end Government Corruption / make Responsible to the People
2.
Worked to Reduce Poverty and Improve Living Conditions
Industrialization after the Civil War influenced many aspects of life in the United States. The
changing American landscape in the antebellum period was visible in economic, political, and
social areas, in both positive and negative ways.
I. Economy
A. Machines replacing Manual Labor
1. Division of Labor / Specialization
B. Railway network increasing distribution of goods
1. Raw materials shipped to factories
2. Completion of first transcontinental railway
II. Society
A. Expansion of Middle Class and increase in income gap
1. Increase in Child Labor
2. Large amounts of Underprivileged and Scarcity of Jobs
B. Large movement of people from rural to urban areas / Increase in Immigration
1. Overall population of United States doubled between 1870 and 1916
C. End of frontier life
1. Homestead Act of 1962 came to logical conclusion with end of Westward
Expansion
III. Politics
A. Establishment of Progressive reformers
1. Strove to end Government Corruption / make Responsible to the People
2. Worked to Reduce Poverty and Improve Living Conditions
