America's Post-Civil War Growing Pains



America's Post-Civil War Growing Pains

Introduction

Before the outbreak of the Civil War, also known as the Civil War, the United States had nearly reached its final territorial extent. However, the northern and the southern United States had developed differently. In the northern states were not only the economic and industrial center of gravity, a rich food production and most transport links, but also the many emerging cities. Between 1809 and 1828, almost all the South American colonies won their independence. Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Venenzuela, Bolivia, Uruguay, Mexico and some Central American countries regained their freedom after bloody wars.

In the early nineteenth century, North America was going through a period of great economic growth. This was carries out with the help of technologically advanced machinery from England, the young American state multiplied industrial production, including through the mass influx of European immigrants, who made up the labor essential for the industries. In the North, the city is quickly magnified. The advance continued to the territories of the West, favored by technological development: new routes were opened along navigable rivers, crossed by large steamboats (Nash, 1995).

Discussion

A new boost to economic development was impressed by the discovery of gold mines in the western regions. After 1848 large gold deposits were found in California. Thus began a bloody war of conquest. The Americans did not hesitate to trample, to exterminate the indigenous peoples; called Red Indians because of the color you dyed your face during ritual ceremonies. The Native Americans opposed the invasion of their territories, but they were driven out by the feds (Bailey et. Al., 1994). The conquerors killed most of the immense herds of bison grazing in the grasslands and representing the main livelihood of indigenous people. In 1890, the frontier of the United States reached the Pacific Ocean: the whole country was colonized, while the Indians living on reservations now closed. The wars had decimated the indigenous population: the Indian tribes who had fought with great courage against the pioneers were left few survivors (Nash, 1995).

The northern states were in need of a protectionist trade policy, which involved the imposition of tariffs on all imported goods, so as to protect its production. The Southern states were in favor of free trade. The 1865s was extremely volatile: American society underwent major cultural changes, especially related to mass immigration, it was divided into slave states and ...