HIST 2057 : Test 1- Five Changes In American Society
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Introduction to the issues these are 5 things that profoundly shaped. In the end, america is wealthier, more diverse, more linked with transportation, more consumer oriented (society where buying goods is considered important). All of these things were see as good and bad, depending on who you asked: rise of national business and industrial system. If you"re gonna sell a product nation ride, you wouldn"t use a horse and buggy. Railroads typically had 10,000-25,000 workers engineers, people selling tickets, people to lay the tracks, people to build locomotives. If you"re going to sell things all over and have staff all over the us, you have to be able to communicate with them. It takes off after the civil war, because everywhere the railroad went, the telegraph went. When the telephone replaces the telegraph, the telephone went everywhere the railroad went. Refrigerated rail cars are also invented and allow food to be delivered to big cities.
