After the American Revolution, the United States was far from being a perfect country. It would take drastic changes over the nineteenth century to improve the condition of the country. The four revolutions effected the Northeast, South, and West, socially, structurally, economically, and politically. .
Technical innovations in transportation such as the railroad had different social and structural effects on the three major regions of the country. The greatest social effect the railroad had was its ability to make the continually expanding United States a little smaller for it's residents. The amount of time and effort it took to travel from one city to another was less and less as the nineteenth century progressed. However, this was truer for the northeastern and western states than for the South. In 1850 northeastern and western states such as Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana had 1042, 1409, 900, 590, and 226 miles of railroad track respectively. Because the northeastern and western states were structurally linked, people and ideas could move about more freely. A person who may have only been able to see a relative on rare occasions because it took weeks to travel there by foot or wagon may have been able to visit that person more often because trains could make the trip in days or even hours. The train allowed for more interactions between people of the Northeast and West. Ideas on politics, agriculture, religion, and medicine could move from one end of the country to the other in a shorter period of time. This was not necessarily the case for the South. States such as Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, and Tennessee had only 60, 112, 249, and 481 miles of track respectively. Not only was there a lack of developed track in the South, but very little of it connected with any of the Northeastern and Western lines. This underdeveloped infrastructure of the South led them to become even more socially and structurally isolated from the Northeast and West.
Industrialization after the Civil War This paper discusses the effects the Industrial Revolution had on the economy, politics, and society. ... After the Civil war Industrialization drastically changed and affected everything going on in the U.S. including the way the government was ran, the people and the way people lived as a whole. ...
Out of three causes, the first principal cause of the American Civil War was the Compromise of 1850. ... However, there is one issue that kind of generated the Civil War even though it was already compromised. ... These issues between the North and South worsen the relationship between them and lead to the Civil War. ... The third principal cause of the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860. ... His attempted to invade the North because most of the battle in the Civil War was fought in the South and it was time to be more offensive to the North. ...
Introduction The concrete reason that motivated civil war can only be traced to the motivation between greed and grievance. ... Greed and grievance are an important element that is inseparable in explaining conflicts that escalate to Civil War. ... Once a country falls into the trap of civil war, it becomes a continuous conflict. ... The question to be asked is why do the developing countries in West Africa witness consistent civil wars? ... The political system witnessed in post-independence period of Sierra Leone portrays that of a 'shadow state'. ...
Post Civil War United States After the Civil War the United States witnessed the greatest movement of people in it's history. ... Society as well as Government had to be reconstructed especially in the post war South. The changes the Civil War brought also brought up new ways to go about handling the changes and making them stick. ... With the end of the Civil War also came emancipation of blacks. ... Both women and blacks lacked many of their civil rights. ...
The end of the Civil War marked this transition from a more agricultural nation to an industrialized one. ... This direct relationship between the industrial development and population growth shows how the post-Civil War transformation had such consistent and rapid proliferation. ... The final major event of any diplomatic relations in this era was the Spanish-American War. ... The Spanish-American War is more a result of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence. ... An unexpected yet extremely important part of the post-Civil War transformation was the environmental chang...
The post-civil war period was one of great economic expansion for the United States. ... Although railroads were being built in the U.S. since the 1930's this industry bontributed greatly to economic development after the Civil War. ... This sparked economic growth in the post-cilil war era. ... Civil War. ...
When the Civil War began, neither the Union nor the Confederacy was prepared for the level of destruction that warfare would bring. ... Tripler, became the prominent ambulance used in the Civil War. ... Deplorable sanitation and rising rates of diseases throughout the Civil War, demanded immediate attention. An estimated 620,000 men died during the Civil War. ... But, despite these limitations, Civil War doctors achieved remarkable successes in treating the wounded and comforting the sick. ...
After the emancipation of slaves in 1862, the status of African-Americans in post civil war America up until the beginning of the twentieth century did not go through a great deal of change. ... The Civil Rights act of 1875 prohibited segregation in public facilities and various government amendments gave African-Americans even more guaranteed rights. ... Court rulings as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 did not help. ... Even in the North where most civil rights reformers hailed from, people discriminated based on color. Post Civil War America saw great many changes concerning civ...
Before the Civil War, there were many abolitionists that had campaigns trying to get their opinion to reach others. ... Just before the start of the Civil War, Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state. During the Civil War, according to Document 6, there were more casualties in the North than in the South. The major cause of death in the Civil War was in both cases, wounded in action. There were many battles during the Civil War, so because this was the number one caused death, it makes sense. ...
The two finalists in the competition are from bracket II, the "Civil War", and from bracket III, "World War I". Despite the significant implications of World War I and the fact that the Civil War occurred over one hundred years ago, the Civil War remains as the most important event in American history. Unlike the Civil War, World War I was not fought on U.S. ... First, after the failure to negotiate a post war treaty acceptable to the U. ... The political results of the Civil War, however, were more significant. ...