industrial era

Examples of industrial era in the following topics:

• Industrial Cities

  • During the industrial era, cities grew rapidly and became centers of population growth and production.
  • During the industrial era, cities grew rapidly and became centers of population and production.
  • Since the industrial era, that figure, as of the beginning of the 21st century, has risen to nearly 50%.
  • Rapid growth brought urban problems, and industrial-era cities were rife with dangers to health and safety.
  • Rapidly expanding industrial cities could be quite deadly, and were often full of contaminated water and air, and communicable diseases.

• The Growth of the Cotton Industry

  • Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793 resulted in massive growth in the cotton industry in the American South.
  • In the antebellum era—that is, in the years before the Civil War—American planters in the South continued to grow Chesapeake tobacco and Carolina rice as they had in the colonial era.
  • With the invention of Whitney's cotton gin, cotton became a tremendously profitable industry, creating many fortunes in the antebellum South.
  • The invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the textile industry in the early nineteenth century and transformed the economy of the South.
  • The cotton industry in the South was fully dependent on the institution of slavery.

• The Gilded Age

  • Many critics complained that the era was marked by ostentatious display, crass manners, corruption, and shoddy ethics.
  • In the Progressive Era that followed the Gilded Age, the United States became a world power.
  • These inventions provided the bases for modern consumerism and industrial productivity.
  • Their admirers argued that they were "captains of industry" who built the core America industrial economy and also the nonprofit sector through acts of philanthropy.
  • This productive but divisive era was followed by the Progressive Era.

• The Progressive Era

  • The Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s.
  • The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to 1920s.
  • Many activists joined efforts to reform local government, public education, medicine, finance, insurance, industry, railroads, churches, and many other areas.
  • Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized American from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist.
  • (1927) and The Flivver King (1937) describe the working conditions of the coal, oil and auto industries at the time.

• Conclusion: The Successes and Failures of Progressivism

  • Although the Progressive Era brought reform to government and business and increased political power for many citizens, its benefits were limited to white Americans; African Americans and other minorities continued to experience discrimination and marginalization during this era.
  • Dissatisfaction on the part of the growing middle class with the corruption and inefficiency of politics as usual, and the failure to deal with increasingly important urban and industrial problems, led to the dynamic Progressive Movement starting in the 1890s.
  • Progressives implemented anti-trust laws and regulated such industries of meat-packing, drugs, and railroads.
  • The Progressive Era coincided with the Jim Crow era, which saw intense segregation and discrimination of African Americans.
  • Summarize the successes and failures of Progressive efforts during this era

• Gothic Architecture and Sculpture

  • Indeed, the number of Gothic Revival and Carpenter Gothic structures built in the 19th and 20th centuries may exceed the number of authentic Gothic structures that had been built in Gothic's original era.
  • As industrialization progressed, there was a reaction against machine production and factories.
  • Proponents of the picturesque, such as Thomas Carlyle and Augustus Pugin, took a critical view of industrial society and portrayed pre-industrial medieval society as a golden age.
  • To Pugin, Gothic architecture was infused with the Christian values that had been supplanted by classicism and were being destroyed by industrialization.
  • Assess how the "spiritual" revival of Gothic architecture and sculpture countered the "rational" Neoclassical style of the same era.

• Conclusion: Trends of the Gilded Age

  • The early half of the Gilded Age roughly coincided with the middle portion of the Victorian era in Britain and Belle Époque in France.
  • The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West.
  • Railroads were the major industry, with the factory system, mining, and finance increasing in importance.
  • Labor unions became important in the very rapidly growing industrial cities.
  • Heavy industry was a male domain, but in light industries such as textiles and food processing, large numbers of young women were hired.

• Chile's Presidential Era

• Racial Prejudice in the Jackson Era

  • These supporters favored geographical expansion in order to create more farms for others like them, and distrusted the upper classes who envisioned an industrial nation built upon finance and manufacturing.
  • Anti-abolitionist riots rocked several cities during the Jackson era, with Jackson himself often applauding the actions.

• The Modern Era

  • Many industries with very long histories, such as pottery in Iran, closed entirely, while others like metalwork in brass became generally frozen in style, with much of their production going to tourists or exported as oriental exotica.
  • The carpet industry has remained large, but mostly uses designs that originated before 1700, and competes with machine-made imitations both locally and around the world.