...African Americans and women gained equal rights and there were many advancements in technology. Society, economy, and politics were three signifigant aspects that were changed by industrialization after the Civil War. Before this era most Americans worked for themselves on farms or owned businesses. Soon people began leaving farms to move into cities to work in factories. Assembly lines were introduced during this era. They made it possible to mass produce products. These jobs were usually monotonous and dangerous. On an assembly each worker was responsible for specific part of the product. They no longer had the freedom or working for themselves. Employers hired unskilled labor which most of the time were women and children. Americans now were working for someone else and were working long hours for little pay and treated miserably, which led to horrible working conditions. Iron and steel had become big business during this time. The economy had grown due to the new industries that were developed. Immigration also increased because more and more people were coming to America to take advantage of the new job opportunities that were being developed such as steel, iron, railroads and other factories. Industrialization brought a variety of manufactured goods along with grim employment and living conditions for most people (History.com, 2009). Political corruption was the...
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...Ch 1. Leticia Velez Biography Do you want to know more or learn about Leticia Velez well here is a biography about her. Leticia Velez was born on, 9/20/1989 and lived in Puerto Diablo with her mom age 42 her 2 brothers, 3 sisters that lived with her. Leticia was only 12 at the time when they lived together according to Leticia on the Children Over Politics website. Leticia only slept about 3-4 hours a day because she was the eldest in her family and wanted to help out her mom a single mother, her mother, worked two jobs. “I’ve seen first and what it is like to work so hard, to break your back,” according to Leticia, on the Children Over Politics website. Leticia's mother has a very important role because she skipped...
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...have started to rebel. The people say that the war that we are currently in with Japan has affected the treatment of peasants and it has been too unfair for too long. The peasants believe that there are three reasons for the rebellion. First, the agrarian problem; the peasants claim that the noble’s ideas for profit growth for the country is destroying the economy. The new system that the nobles have implanted took away the different farms that each of the peasants owned and combined them into one farm that all of the peasants would work on. Each family that formerly owned land was given a strip of land to farm and were heavily taxed forcing them to give up their crops. This meant the farmers could...
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...Acording to PEATA2 these Teenage Activists deserve an award. These are only a few that I picked but if you go to the website at the end you can see 11 more Teenage Activists . Grace Wickerson Location: Englewood, Florida Grace decided to ditch meat at age 13. She collected 100 of pounds of cat food and made more than 100 cat toys by hand to donate to her local animal shelter. What keeps her motivated: "I’m really into preventing abuse in general, for both people and animals—all living beings on this planet should respect each other. We should respect all animals, since they can feel and think, too, and we need to acknowledge that. We should treat them the way we want to be treated.” Leticia Velez Location: Los Angeles, California . Leticia...
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...adapting to these changes. There were three major aspects of industrialization that influenced U.S. society, economy, and politics; the emergence of big business, new technological innovations, and the spread of railroads. Between 1867 and 1920, the United States was transformed from an agrarian, rural nation to an urban, industrial economy. Small, locally owned firms were replaced by large, nationally based corporations. Corporate structure became hierarchical and bureaucratic because these large firms involved complex operations that needed to be organized. Besides vertical integration, this period also involved horizontal mergers, which fueled fears of monopoly power. (Ballam, 1994). Steam power began replacing water power, allowing factories to be built far away from water sources. Steel became the basic building material for machinery instead of wood and iron, thanks to the Bessemer process, therefore machines became larger and more resilient. Thomas Edison invented the moving picture and the light bulb, which made it possible for businesses to stay open long after dark. Around this time, the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell; this allowed for quick, nation-wide communication (Ballam, 1994). The typewriter was invented in the 1860s; this created new office jobs for women and helped them to become earners (Schultz, 2014). The expansion of railroads was also a key factor to the rise of the industrial...
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...in the industrial revolution. From 1700 to 1850 a lot of changes had taken place. Many factories were built many inventions and changes had been made during that time. ” Steam power played a large part in the Industrial Revolution, and without it Industrialisation would have been impossible” Smith (2009, P.20) Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine in 1698. However...
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...businesses. Big business was growing but the government want to stay away from free market. They felt like if the government interfere in that the free unregulated markets led to competition. Years later beginning to show that there was no free market. By this time corporations was big and powerful that they took over the markets. These corporations had almost brought out all the small businesses. This hurt mostly the farmers. The Industrialization Revolution affected farming and manufacturing led to a increase in the wealth and prosperity of countries. They improved the way of planting and harvesting crops, breeding, and rearing animals and fertilizing the land to increase productivity. Steam powered farm machine replaced farm worker. Farmers were able to own their own home and farm using their time and resource but had to be under the government control for five years after that then everything was theirs. Although the war was over and slavery was abolished,nothing change much for the African American. They still had to work for their master and were limited to the rights they had which were...
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...knowledge of English, education, and work skills. They faced discrimination in the work place from workers who didn’t care for the immigrants need to accept lower wages and work in horrible conditions. The Chinese were one of the groups that faced discrimination to the point they were taxed to mine for gold during the Gold Rush. The tax was specifically for any “foreign miners” (Schultz, 2013). The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prevented the Chinese from becoming citizens and migrating for 10 years. Indians were persecuted as outsiders, they suffered from racism. The violence between the Indians and white Americans increased during the Civil War. There were several Indian wars that occurred in the 1800’s. Urbanization of the west began to take place and the Indian Removal Act was passed, furthering the Native Americans struggle for domination. New Urban areas started sprouting up and cities growing with factories, mills, and other...
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...each part of the US. The South had a total population of 7.5 million The people of the South were mostly farmers and workers living an agrarian lifestyle. All the farming in the South caused the major need for slaves, by 1850 half of the population of the South held slaves. However the North, stood as an urban lifestyle with tons of factories and lots of industry. These factories needed many workers, causing masses of people to come to the North from places like rural New England, looking for employment. At the start of the Civil War the population was 22.5 million. The South, an agrarian community, was filled with cotton plantations and other crop farms. All of the crops and the farms caused a major need for more slaves. The slaves were in charge of tending the cotton, and picking it for their owners. However in 1793 something changed. 1793 was the year that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The invention of the cotton Gin majorly raised the production rate, from 10,000 bales to above 1,000,000! Despite the newly invented cotton gin, there was still a major need for slaves in the South. The North, in contrast, became known as the industry and factory part of the US. The North was known for its production of goods like cloth and clothes. The North and South were also very separated by its beliefs about slaves. Because the south was an agricultural community, it relied on their slaves to help and do most of their work. Contradictory of the South, The North owned very few slaves...
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...Regardless of numerous organizations that promise change, there are still over 200 Million children working world wide. Of those 200 million children, around 126 million are working under dangerous and hazardous work conditions including beatings, humiliation and sexual violence by their employers1. In India, about 12% of all children between the age of 5 and 14 are engaged in child labor activities including carpet production2. They often are being trafficked from one form of labor into another, as with girls from rural Nepal, who are recruited to work in carpet factories but are then trafficked into the sex industry over the border in India3. What is child labor? Child labor is characterized as a regular use of children less than 14 years of age for hard manual labor. Usually hiring children is illegal, but that doesn’t stop a lot of factories, especially in third world countries, to hire them anyways. The worst form of child labor is the “bonded labor”. Bonded labor means that children give their children away (they bond them) because they owe people money. These children work to pay off their parents deeds and are being enslaved and forcibly recruited. Overall one in six children under the age of 14 (about 16% of all children in this age group) is involved in child labor in the world4. Discussing those numbers, we have to keep in mind that child labor is different from child work. According to UNICEF (United Nations Children’s fund), children that want to participate...
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...because of this. The railroad brought thousands of Mexicans into America, and railroad linked U.S. markets with Mexico. Commercial agriculture created a push factor that uprooted thousands in Mexico. At first, they migrated to urban centers and eventually they spread to different industries like the railroad, mines, and to the southwest. They went north because of pull factors from the increase in demand of work in the north. The growing industrialized America created jobs at the bottom level of the market. Mexicans fulfilled these needs and took low-end jobs in factories, mines, railroads, farms, and ranches. Other pull factors come from political refugees who were skilled workers, while others came for short periods of time and returned. Other push factors included natural disasters like droughts. In addition, population growth pushed people out of Mexico. In 1910, Mexico's population swelled up to 15 million and small farms could no longer support such a large population. The passage of the Chinese exclusion Act and the Gentlemen’s Agreement with Japan caused a halt to Chinese and Japanese immigration. This created a demand for Mexican immigrants to...
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...They were also motivated by editorials like the Chicago Defender which urged them to move away from the South. The Great Migration was not good for farms in the South because most of their workers were African American. They tried to stop them by promising to get them higher wages, proposing laws to stop them from moving, and boarding trains going North attack African Americans and making them go back home. Outside of the South people like William Lewis Bulkley made history. He was born into slavery and then moved to New York and became the first black principle of a mostly white school. African Americans from the South brought their culture to were they moved and changed that places...
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...Farmers eventually created cooperatives which allowed groups of farmers to pool money and resources to buy stores, grain silos, create marketing campaigns, and create factories. In the end all of the profits from the businesses would be divided among the members. The Granger Movement was eventually replaced by the Farmer’s Alliance. The Farmer’s Alliance was a way for the farmers to get political power on a national level. The Farmer’s Alliance lobbied Congress for regulations of the railroads, lower tariffs for farm equipment, money based on the silver standard, graduated income tax, direct election of senator, public ownership of communication lines, and land restrictions for immigrants. The Alliance took these ideas and merged with Southern Democrats to from the Populist Party. The Populist Party would compete against the two major parties in order to present their arguments and pleas on a national level. The Panic of 1893 caused an economic crash that devastated both farmers and industrial workers. After the Panic of 1893 the Democratic Party and the Populist joined together and nominated William Jennings Bryan as the presidential candidate of 1896. McKinley won the election and the Populist Party slowly faded away. Farmers responded politically to industrialization because it was the most effective way to go. Violence and protests would not solve any of the problems the farmers encountered. The farmer’s strategy of bringing national attention to the issues each family of farmers...
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...mainly a nation of small farms. By 1900, it was a nation of growing cities, of coal, steel, and of engines and fast communications. Though living standards generally rose, millions of industrial workers lived in crowded, unsanitary slums.In the north, industrial violence was common and occurred on numerous occasions. The most violent confrontation between labor and employers was probably the Great Railway Strike of 1877. The nation had been in the grip of a severe depression for four years. During that time, the railroads had decreased the wages of railway workers by 20 percent. Many trainmen complained that they could not support their families adequately, and there was little that the trainmen could do about the wage decreases. At that time, unions were weak and workers feared going on strike; there were too many unemployed men who might take their jobs. Some workers secretly formed a Trainmen's Union to oppose the railroads. In the last quarter of the century, the textile, metal, and machinery industries equaled the railroads in size. In 1870, the typical iron and steel firm employed fewer than 100 workers. Thirty years later, the force was four times as large. By 1900, more than 1,000 factories had work forces ranging from 500 to 1,000 workers. From 1860 to 1900 some 15 million immigrants from southern and eastern Europe came to the United States in search of a better life, and most of them settled in the north and northeast. With big cities and factories came big business and...
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...today, and will soon be the largest criminal industry in the world unless steps are taken to eradicate or prevent it. Human trafficking is the trade of human beings and their use by criminals to make money. That could mean forcing or tricking people into prostitution, begging, or manual labor. Girls and young women are particularly at risk from criminals who promise good jobs or study and then force the victims to be prostitutes. The criminals profit while the girls and women suffer rape and other physical and mental violence. Victims do not agree to be trafficked - they are tricked - lured by false promises - or forced. The trafficker takes away the basic human rights of the victim: the freedom to move, to choose, to control her body and mind, and to control her future. Human trafficking is a form of organized crime, in which people of all ages are taken from their homes to be exploited for sexual or labor purposes. The traffickers use fear and violence to get these people to come with them, and all they really want out of it is money. For the most part, certain groups of people are trafficked. For instance, the poor, people who have run away from their homes, and also migrants....
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