Following the Civil War and now moving into the industrial upcoming of America, the Gilded Age had re-paved the financial state of New York . Money had quickly changed hands and while New York’s elites were st
From the late 1700s into the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution was the process in which the handcraft economy was taken over by textile and factory manufacturing. The revolution started in Great Britain, and it created a working class of people. This new type of manufacturing greatly lessened...
Most of the Puritans settled in the New England area. As they immigrated and formed individual colonies, their numbers rose from 17,800 in 1640 to 106,000 in 1700. Religious exclusiveness was the foremost principle of their society. The spiritual beliefs that they held were strong....