HIST 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mail Order, Gilded Age, Jacob Riis
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Implications: ramp up production= jobs, city and country closer together. No longer is a store or company relegated to selling stuff just in the cities. If you were a company you would have to built factories in cities just so people could buy your product. Now people all over the world can by the product because now the us postal service is shipping. Immigrants and settlement: english, scottish, irish, welsh, and germans, long history of coming into the united states, northeast cities, they come here because of the factory jobs, welsh in appalachia, best miners of the world. Small economic depression: pull factor- a factor that pulled immigrants out of there home country to the united states. If they were single irish women they would almost always go back home: new york city (ellis island) and san francisco (angel island)
