Industrialization
When Industrialization (1865-1920) came to the United States after the Civil War (1861-1865), it brought positive and negative impacts on the social, political, and economic aspects of the American life and society.
One negative social impact was that men like Andrew Carnegie, James Fisk, John D. Rockefeller, Edward Harriman, and J.P. Morgan developed crushing monopolies in manufacturing, transportation and finance that would impact every other aspect of life in America from the 18th century onward (Griffin, 2010; McNeese, 2009).
Carnegie, for example, revolutionized the means of production regarding the steel mills and set up the U.S. as a major manufacturer of steel-based products. This serviced the military, the transportation industry (cars, railroads), the telecommunications industry (wires, cables), and the construction industry (the high rises of major cities). Without Carnegie's influence in the Industrial Revolution, none of this could have come into being. Carnegie himself relied on the wealth and banking of the dynastic elite, which had overtaken Europe. Carnegie's enterprise, just like Rockefeller of Standard Oil and Harriman of Union Pacific, was funded by Jacob Schiff of Kuhn Loeb, which served as part of the banking cartel. Schiff would also help to fund the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 -- a point that may appear to be incidental but which actually underscores the importance of the Rothschild banking cartel: it essentially financed the Revolutions of the major world powers (Mullins, 1983; Sachar, 1990) and changed the face and function of society. America went from being largely agricultural to being largely industrial to being, finally, largely financial.
A positive social impact, however, was that in the era of Industrialization urbanization came into full swing: this was the rise of the major cities in America, which served as points...
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