WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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A shift towards industrialization and urbanization that began after the Civil War.
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A shift towards industrialization and urbanization that began after World War II.
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A vision for a racially-integrated, peaceful, and prosperous Southern society.
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A highly segregated society based on class and race.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the post-World War II era, American textiles makers and other light industries moved en masse to the South, to capitalize on low wages, social conservatism, and anti-union sentiments. With the industrialization of the South came economic change, migration, immigration and population growth.
Detailed explanation-2: -Industrialization, meaning manufacturing in factory settings using machines plus a labor force with unique, divided tasks to increase production, stimulated urbanization, meaning the growth of cities in both population and physical size.
Detailed explanation-3: -As industrialization and urbanization are associated with a concentration of economic activity in cities and metropolitan areas, which leads to economies of scale in production and stimulate energy consumption. Production shifts from less energy intensive agriculture to more energy intensive manufacturing.
Detailed explanation-4: -"New South” Era: Populism. The Populist movement, which grew in Georgia during the 1880s and 1890s, began to reach out to urban workers.