Economy: Compare the economies of the New South and the Old South. What did they produce? With whom did they trade? Did they have manufacturing or industry? What types? What replaced slave labor? Explain. (Old South – see Chapter 11; New South – see pages 419-421) New South - i)Leaders in post-Reconstruction south wanted to develop industrial economy, New South of industry, progress, thrift. New South included growth of textile manufacturing b/c of water power, cheap labor, low taxes. Tobacco-processing
The dawn of the railway development in Thailand Territory, technology, and money To put it bluntly, the birth of the railway development in Siam walked hand in hand with the emergence of modernized Siam, which has consisted of two characteristics: territorialized nation-state and capitalist economy. Several studies, for example, Holm (1991), Chaiyan (1994), and Kakizaki (2005) which conclude that the newly-built railway system was concomitantly a tool of the Thai state in centralizing power and
Industry Introduction The Texas oil boom was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in Texas in the early 20th century. The discovery was revolutionary in an age of rapid regional development and industrialization that has few parallels in U.S. history. Texas became one of the leading oil producing states in the U.S. The nation soon became the top producer of petroleum, and by 1940, Texas dominated U.S. production. Some historians even define the beginning of the world's Oil Age as the beginning
The United States is one complex historical rollercoaster of ups and downs but ultimately a great success from being a series of British colonies to the country we know today. As Stated by Rosenberg, “the growth of American power from the 1890’s to the 1940’s was spectacular.” Henry Luce’s profound belief, as noted by Dr. Rosenberg, in liberal developmentalism, which she sees as the ideological basis for US economic and cultural expansion between 1890 and 1945 was essentially directly promoted to
Some people wonder how the United States was able to become so large in size. They wonder how the country was able to acquire so much land. Well, between 1803 and 1861, the United States almost tripled in size because of what we call the Westward Expansion. In the early 1800s, the west of the United States was thousands of miles of open fertile land with forests, mountains, rivers and plains populated by native groups. But many patriotic Americans believed it was their fate to spread the idea of
what did they do before and after he was born. In addition to how his family had such a great impact on him with achieving his goals. We will also talk about his wives Mary Stilwell and Mary Sharlow and his children Marion, Thomas Jr. and William from his first wife and Madeleine, Charles and Theodore Miller from his second wife. As well as how his inventions were successful and had a great impact on us and on our world such as creating the light bulb and motion pictures. We will mention how, when
Pre 1950s Large dams, as we know them today, were a product of the Progressive Era, a period of intense social and political reform in the United States that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. The Progressives sought to create a better and just society by checking political corruption and reigning in monopolies through anti-trust laws. More importantly, they also believed that the key to achieving these goals was efficiency in all spheres of political and public life realized through the
In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its pits, some 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed
to herein as “rural infrastructures” are very important for rural development because they remain the most simplest and most basic needs of the rural villagers. The provision of rural infrastructure is a priority area for development for the government of Papua New Guinea but it also remains a challenge for the government to this