History

The United States of America always was a country of progress and development. Right after the Civil War ended with the reunification of the Northern and Southern states, the renewed country continued to pursue its goal to improvement. The period of rapid industrialization had begun and started to change the face of the United States making it one of the most progressive countries in the world as we know it now. However, there still were some problems to solve: racial and gender segregation, the industrialization of the South and the relations with the Native Americans.

Even though the South of the US was reunited with the North, they still were quite different from each other. After the Civil War the Southern states lost most of its capital so the business there was going through tough times. The economy was cash-poor, and the only product that could be changed for money was cotton. Thus, the South became overflowed with cotton-producing farms, and this good became much cheaper quite fast. The industrialization of the Southern states was going much slower than in the Northern ones. However, the railroad system grew enormously fast – the number of the roads increased by four times in 40 years. In the social sphere, racial segregation still stayed the issue of the greatest concern. While in the Northern states the difference between treatment of blacks and whites considerably faded down, it increased in the Southern states. The peak of it led to the humiliating Jimmy Crow laws.

In the late 19th century, the United States became a technological innovator. Almost a million of the patents were issued in 30 years. The industry was growing rapidly. The second half of the 19th century gave birth to the first corporations and trusts. They changed the nature of work and were the reasons for the urban grow. Even though the corporations