Period 6: 1865-1898 (CCOT) (1 janv. 1865 – 1 janv. 1898)

Description:

Continuity (1865):

Work and Business
(Segregation remained)

1. Farming and sharecropping
2. Mining and railroad work
3. Segregation
4. Start of business consolidation

Living and migration patterns
1. 20% of Americans lived in cities
2. Most immigrants from northern and western Europe
3. Few African Americans moving from the south
4. Some urban density and property

Culture and ideas
(More continuity than change regression?)

1. Intense push for racial equality in North, resistance in the South
2. Nativism
3. Laissez-faire economics

Change: (1898)

Work and Business
(Pretty major changes!)

1. Farming and Sharecropping
2. Mechanization of agriculture
3. Mass production and deskilling
4. Wage work in factories
5. Women's and children's labor
6. Segregation
7. Major business consolidation
8. Unions

Living and migration patterns
(Big transformations here as well!)

1. 40% of Americans lived in cities
2. Most immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
3. Beginning of African American migration to cities
4. Intense urban density and poverty

Culture and ideas
1. Little mainstream interest in racial equality in USA
2. Nativism and emerging Social Darwinism
3. Some critiques of industrial society emerging - Jacob Riis, Jane Addams

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