Impact of American Industrialization

Background

Industrial revolution of United States starts from the end of the Civil War (1861-1865), which opposed the Northern industrial states in the Confederate States, including the issue of slavery at the end the First World War. The period following the Civil War and sees the reinstatement of the secessionist states in the union and the policy toward them during this period is called Reconstruction.

Abraham Lincoln (assassinated in 1865) advocated a moderated policy, but the enormous human cost of war and social change it brought led Congress to block the readmission of the rebel States in the EU without preconditions are met. A series of laws were promulgated to this effect: an oath of loyalty is required from the southern populations. Slavery was officially abolished in 1865 by the thirteenth amendment. (David, 1990, Pg. #355-361)

Facts of Revolution

The public administration turn of the century may bring to the explosive industrial and urban development difficult. A large part of the land is already owned by the industrialists - they ensure thereby the treasure underground. To new acquisition of land cannot think of the communities at that time. The limited available resources are used up long ago if it is done in the areas of education, road construction and poor being the most necessary.

Mostly public administration does not step in to the local economy and thus jeopardizing the importance of local community. Southern whites join the Republican Party to obtain positions in government alongside the carpetbaggers and former slaves. Whites who supported the Confederacy were not allowed to vote. To vote you must swear. Some blacks migrate north to find work as a laborer. The scale of destruction caused by the invasion of the South, his defeat, followed by the social changes of states defeated after the war inspired ...