Changes in American society modified the social, economic and political and family structure of the nation.
The effects of the industrial revolution in the Northern states made possible great advances in trade and travel, allowing more people to move from one place to another in less time, and the generation of job opportunities for many people that before that time, were only limited to his own area or farming jobs.
Industrialization modified the role of woman in the family. Previously, women limited its participation only as a mother. But after World War I, they started to occupy positions in new professions and they expressed themselves through fashion and style.
Minorities and the access to labor in factories and industry in general was a notorious advancement in the consolidation of the U.S. as a modern society. Although the many racial problems the nation is still facing, Black people and Hispanic people have made a great contribution to the American economy.
Free trade and NAFTA has allowed the three countries -Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.- to have a true strength in commerce that shows the world that North America is a leading force in world trade. This caused the admiration of other countries in different continents, and one way or the other, some have tried to emulate the formula.
Immigration has marked the history of the U.S. Not only from Latin America, but the United States was formed by immigrants: English, Italians, Mexicans, Japanese and many more that are an active part of the economy and culture of the country.
<span>I think citizens allowed patricians to fix elections in medieval cities because </span>they needed their own extraordinary laws and were eager to pay for them and also that patricians were more esteemed, experienced, and more averse to foul up the region than plebeians.
On January 29, 1850, the 70-year-old Clay presented a compromise. For eight months members of Congress, led by Clay, Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina, debated the compromise. With the help of Stephen Douglas, a young Democrat from Illinois, a series of bills that would make up the compromise were ushered through Congress.
<span>According to the compromise, Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars -- money it would use to pay off its debt to Mexico. Also, the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. (The decision would be made by the territories' inhabitants later, when they applied for statehood.) Regarding Washington, the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, although slavery would still be permitted. Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. To pacify slave-state politicians, who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.</span>
