1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
lutik1710 [3]
3 years ago
15

Will give 50 points write an essay describing three innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their e

ffect on life in the united states.
History
1 answer:
Tanzania [10]3 years ago
6 0

There were two technological innovations that profoundly changed daily life in the 19th century. They were both “motive powers”: steam and electricity. According to some, the development and application of steam engines and electricity to various tasks such as transportation and the telegraph, affected human life by increasing and multiplying the mechanical power of human or animal strength or the power of simple tools.

Those who lived through these technological changes, felt them to be much more than technological innovations. To them, these technologies seemed to erase the primeval boundaries of human experience, and to usher in a kind of Millennial era, a New Age, in which humankind had definitively broken its chains and was able, as it became proverbial to say, to “annihilate time and space.” Even the most important inventions of the 19th century that were not simply applications of steam or electrical power, such as the recording technologies of the photograph and the phonograph, contributed to this because they made the past available to the present and the present to the future.

The 1850 song, “Uncle Sam’s Farm,” written by Jesse Hutchinson, Jr., of the Hutchinson Family Singers, captured this sense that a unique historical rupture had occurred as a result of scientific and social progress:

Our fathers gave us liberty, but little did they dream

The grand results that pour along this mighty age of steam;

For our mountains, lakes and rivers are all a blaze of fire,

And we send our news by lightning on the telegraphic wires.

Apart from the technological inventions themselves, daily life in the 19th century was profoundly changed by the innovation of reorganizing work as a mechanical process, with humans as part of that process. This meant, in part, dividing up the work involved in manufacturing so that each single workman performed only one stage in the manufacturing process, which was previously broken into sequential parts. Before, individual workers typically guided the entire process of manufacturing from start to finish.

This change in work was the division or specialization of labor, and this “rationalization” (as it was conceived to be) of the manufacturing process occurred in many industries before and even quite apart from the introduction of new and more powerful machines into the process. This was an essential element of the industrialization that advanced throughout the 19th century. It made possible the mass production of goods, but it also required the tight reorganization of workers into a “workforce” that could be orchestrated in various ways in order to increase manufacturing efficiency. Individuals experienced this reorganization as conflict: From the viewpoint of individual workers, it was felt as bringing good and bad changes to their daily lives.

On the one hand, it threatened the integrity of the family because people were drawn away from home to work in factories and in dense urban areas. It threatened their individual autonomy because they were no longer masters of the work of their hands, but rather more like cogs in a large machine performing a limited set of functions, and not responsible for the whole.

On the other hand, it made it possible for more and more people to enjoy goods that only the wealthy would have been able to afford in earlier times or goods that had never been available to anyone no matter how wealthy. The rationalization of the manufacturing process broadened their experiences through varied work, travel, and education that would have been impossible before.


i hope this helps you!!!!! have a good day!!!!! :)

You might be interested in
Robert Owen suggested that the establishment of phalanstères would help eliminate the huge gaps in health and happiness between
meriva
The difference is living conditions these communities are essential worst things
3 0
3 years ago
What is one way the Constitution addresses conflicts between federal and state governments?
antiseptic1488 [7]

Answer: it reserves all powers not delegated to the federal government to the state government.

Explanation: The United State constitution employs federalism to divide governmental powers between the federal government and the state governments. Federalism is a division of power between the state and the central government. Federalism is established through the Constitution supremacy clause. This clause explains that the federal constitution is the supreme law of the land. Power not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states. The United State Supreme Court is the highest court in the state and it determines conflict over states right federal powers, the Supreme Court therefore define the division of powers.

6 0
3 years ago
What were the links between the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Declaration of the Rights of Women? How were these docu
brilliants [131]
There were many similarities between the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. To begin with, both say that things can be changed for the good of the people. Also, they both state that people have certain rights guaranteed to them.
5 0
2 years ago
When did western expansion start
lbvjy [14]

Answer:

The WESTWARD Expansion started in 1803

Explanation:

8 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Which of the following was NOT an issue that was compromised on at the Constitutional Convention?
andrezito [222]

The main issues that were compromised on in the Constitutional Convention were:

  • The Great Compromise, creating a bicameral Congress
  • The 3/5ths Compromise, making slaves count as 3/5ths of a person
  • Commerce Compromise, mandating that tariffs were only to be allowed on imports from foreign countries and not exports from the U.S., and that interstate commerce would be regulated by the federal government.
  • Compromise on Trade of Enslaved People, when Northern states agreed to wait until 1808 before Congress would be able to ban the trade of enslaved people in the U.S.
  • The Electoral College compromise, when the two sides debating at the convention compromised with the creation of the Electoral College, which is made up of electors roughly proportional to population.
7 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Political liberals and _______________ encouraged reform of the prison system during the enlightenment period.
    10·1 answer
  • Russification was an effort to get minority groups in russia to adapt Russian
    6·1 answer
  • Why was Augustus Caesar important?
    8·2 answers
  • Under what circumstances, if any, do you believe citizens should disobey a law?
    11·2 answers
  • Which of the following best characterizes Herbert Hoover’s role in the great depression
    13·1 answer
  • What is the policy of “appeasement’? How did it prove to be an ineffective strategy?
    8·1 answer
  • What do the word *Americas* mean to you?
    13·2 answers
  • E Material
    8·1 answer
  • How was your day and if bad i hope it gets better
    8·1 answer
  • Discuss what US foreign policy was first put into<br> effect during the French Revolution
    9·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!