Difference Between Westward Expansion And Industrial Expansion

In history for 2014 we learned numerous things. Such as “Westward Expansion” and “Industrial Expansion”. The time periods expand all the way from early 1800’s to the 1940’s. We’ve learned about the presidents and the people and we were more focused on how it reflects today’s time.

But in the Westward Expansion, President Thomas Jefferson made the “Louisiana Purchase” which doubled the size of the United States. The purchase consisted of the west side of the mississippi river. Families of pioneers Started to go westward and found new communities throughout what is now the Midwest, and between 1816 and 1821, six new states were admitted to the Union. While everyone was making settlements west the east side of the U.S. was starting to go into the Industrial Expansion.

In the Industrial Expansion we had

many new uses for natural resources such as Steel, gold, and coal. There were businesses popping up such as Carnegie Steel. Companies needed these refined materials to build things such as the railroad tracks, and the steel was of such a high quality you can still find some Carnegie steel items. But with all this work coming up the immigration skyrocketed.

In immigration most people traveled to the U.S.

by steam ships. The conditions on the boat were not the best, there was plenty of death and sickness. There were two main islands that we drop immigrants off for citizenship on the east coast was the Ellis Islands and on the west coast was the Angel Islands. They did a physical examination for sickness and such then they inspected their documents and with all these new workers we soon moved to the progressive era.

In the Progressive era we had plenty of technological advances such as engines and fabrications. But there was a huge problem with child labor, owners used children because they were cheaper and they could get their tiny hands into tight places. Which caused plenty of injuries. So this was soon outlawed. The progressive era was between 1890’s through the early 1920’s which is near the time the United States went into World War 1.

In 1917 the United States joined into World War 1 with the allies which are Britain, France, and Russia against the central powers. In which the allies won. The Central Powers surrendered on November 11, 1918. And all of the came the roaring twenties then the great

depression.

In the 1920’s there were plenty of changes such as the “flappers” and new inventions such as automobiles and fridges and other home appliances. And many people bought all these new items on credit but back then it was known as the installment plan. Buying all of this on credit sent the U.S. stock market down and then came Black Tuesday. Black Tuesday was the start of the Great Depression. Which was a period of time where money was almost worthless and 25% of people were unemployed. But in came Franklin D. Roosevelt and his new deal.

The New Deal was a set of bills that were used to soon get the United States out of the depression. And it worked! Some of the bills include CCC and WPA which both help the working and giving people jobs and making buildings. And there was the SSA which is better known as the Social Security Act which takes money out of every paycheck but pays you back later in life and the money is used to help people such as unemployment or people who have no money and truly need it.

This basically wraps up our 2014 year. Just about everything we learned these two semesters. In total I believe we truly have learned a lot in this short amount of time. Most of which will stay with me and being able to remember. Because i believe your style of teaching is probably the best for this subject which in the before years was my least favorite/worst class I had.