Changes Civil War Brought to Society
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Discuss in 200 words the changes the Civil War brought to civilian society, in both the North and the South. Demonstrate how the Civil War particulary affected women.
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How the civil war changed society, the economy and created opportunities for women in 555 words.
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Cities developed and flourished for a variety of reasons:
Reasons:
- Specialized industries including steel (Pittsburgh), meat packing (Chicago)
- Immigration from other countries: industrial expansion created jobs that attracted thousands of immigrants to America. By 1860 Irish immigrants had largely replaced the New England mill girls as textile workers.
- Movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for job opportunities This was the beginning of a vast migration from the farms to the cities when agricultural machinery cut the need for farm laborers.
- What inventions created great change and industrial growth in the United States?
Inventions that contributed to great change and industrial growth:
- Lighting and mechanical uses of electricity (Thomas Edison)
- Edison invented the electric light bulb in 1879. During the following decades, factories and ...
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