Although agriculture—mostly smaller farms that relied on free labour—remained the dominant sector in the North, industrialization had taken root there. Moreover, Northerners had invested heavily in an expansive and varied transportation system that included canals, roads, steamboats, and railroads; ...
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industrialization had taken root there. Moreover, Northerners had invested heavily in an expansive and varied transportation system that included canals, roads, steamboats, and railroads; in financial industries such as banking and insurance; and in a large communications network that featured inexpensive...
This was a great boon to domestic mnufactuers who began openking factories in the northeast. The same did not occur in the South where fortunes could be made eploiting slave labor. America fought the Mexican War before industrialization had made a huge advance. This was not the case in ...
The turnaround came in the 1870s, when the founders of the U.S. Naval Institute and advocates of Admiral Alfred Mahan's theory of sea power began to reinvigorate the U.S. Navy. Suddenly mastering the advanced methods of shipbuilding developed in Europe became important, and model basins ...
Simultaneously, the environmental conservation movement was forming in response to concerns about how Americans were treating the nature around them. Although early America had been proud of its wilderness, industrialization had taken its toll nonetheless. It began in the east, but logging, mining, an...
As industry expanded, the middle class began to grow. For the first time, a critical mass of Americans had disposable income and some leisure time thanks to early industrialization. This gave rise to new machines for both factory and home. In 1846, Elias Howe created thesewing machinewhich re...
The first had to do with the nation’s desire to maintain its position as a neutral trading nation during the series of Anglo-French wars, which began in the aftermath of the French Revolution in 1793. The second had older roots in the colonial and Revolutionary era. In both cases, ...
“cavalry,”and was used by Parliamentarians to refer to their Royalist enemies during the English Civil War. However, Straus&Howe extend the term to their entire generation, including not only some 60,000 immigrants to the mid-Atlantic region around Chesapeake Bay (most of them NOT the ...
“line of demarcation” along 46° W long. The conquest of South America, which began in the 16th century, was finished for the most part in the 17th century. By the beginning of the 18th century, most of South America was under Spanish jurisdiction. Portugal controlled almost the entire ...