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American Industrial Revolution | Wikipedia audio article
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00:07:50 1 Pre-European technology
00:09:48 2 Colonial era
00:09:58 2.1 Agriculture
00:10:59 2.2 Artisanship
00:11:52 2.3 Silver working
00:16:23 2.4 Factories and mills
00:23:11 2.5 Turnpikes and canals
00:32:28 2.6 Steamboats
00:35:28 2.7 Mining
00:35:36 2.8 Civil War
00:35:49 3 Technological systems and infrastructure
00:36:30 3.1 Railroads
00:39:13 3.2 Iron and steel-making
00:43:10 3.3 Telegraph and telephone
00:46:00 3.4 Petroleum
00:49:59 3.5 Electricity
00:56:24 3.6 Automobiles
01:00:05 4 Effects of industrialization
01:00:15 4.1 Agricultural production
01:03:12 4.2 Urbanization
01:04:36 4.3 Labor issues and immigration
01:06:25 4.4 Banking, trading, and financial services
01:07:03 4.5 Regulation
01:07:37 5 Military-industrial-academic complex
01:08:52 5.1 Research universities
01:11:08 5.2 World War I and World War II
01:13:18 5.3 Cold War and Space Race
01:15:16 5.4 Computers and information networks
01:16:46 6 Service industry
01:16:56 6.1 Health care and biotechnology
01:19:06 6.2 News, media, and entertainment
01:19:22 7 Technology and society
01:19:40 8 See also
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The technological and industrial history of the United States describes the United States' emergence as one of the most technologically advanced nations in the world. The availability of land and literate labor, the absence of a landed aristocracy, the prestige of entrepreneurship, the diversity of climate and a large easily accessed upscale and literate free market all contributed to America's rapid industrialisation. The availability of capital, development by the free market of navigable rivers, and coastal waterways, and the abundance of natural resources facilitated the cheap extraction of energy all contributed to America's rapid industrialization. Fast transport by the very large railroad built in the mid-19th century, and the Interstate Highway System built in the late 20th century, enlarged the markets and reducing shipping and production costs. The legal system facilitated business operations and guaranteed contracts. Cut off from Europe by the embargo and the British blockade in the War of 1812 (1807–15), entrepreneurs opened factories in the Northeast that set the stage for rapid industrialization modeled on British innovations.
From its emergence as an independent nation, the United States has encouraged science and innovation. As a result, the United States has been the birthplace of 161 of Britannica's 321 Greatest Inventions, including items such as the airplane, internet, microchip, laser, cellphone, refrigerator, email, microwave, personal computer, Liquid-crystal display and light-emitting diode technology, air conditioning, assembly line, supermarket, bar code, automated teller machine, and many more.The early technological and industrial development in the United States was facilitated by a unique confluence of geographical, social, and economic factors. The relative lack of workers kept United States wages nearly always higher than corresponding British and European workers and provided an incentive to mechanize some tasks. The United States population had some semi-unique advantages in that they were former British subjects, had high English literacy skills, for that period (over 80% in New England), had strong British institutions, with some minor American modifications, of courts, laws, right to vote, protection of property rights and in many cases personal contacts among the British innovators of the Industrial Revolution. They had a good basic structure to build on. Another major advantage, which the British lacked, was no inherited aristocratic institutions. The eastern seaboard of the United States, with a great number of ri ...
History of the socialist movement in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:25 1 19th century
00:04:34 1.1 American utopian socialism and utopian communities
00:12:40 1.2 Early American socialism
00:20:12 1.3 Socialism's ties to labor
00:27:07 1.4 Early American anarchism
00:32:14 2 20th century
00:32:24 2.1 Early 20th century: opposition to World War I and the First Red Scare
00:54:34 2.2 1930s–1940s: the Popular Front and the New Deal
01:07:12 2.3 1950s: the Second Red Scare
01:23:09 2.4 1960s–1970s: the New Left and social unrest
01:42:52 2.5 1980s–1990s
01:49:21 3 21st century
01:49:31 3.1 2000s to contemporary times
01:56:00 4 See also
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Socialism in the United States began with utopian communities in the early 19th century such as the Shakers, the activist visionary Josiah Warren and intentional communities inspired by Charles Fourier. Labor activists—usually British, German, or Jewish immigrants—founded the Socialist Labor Party in 1877. The Socialist Party of America was established in 1901. By that time, anarchism also established itself around the country while socialists of different tendencies were involved in early American labor organizations and struggles which reached a high point in the Haymarket affair in Chicago which started International Workers' Day as the main workers holiday around the world (except in the United States, which celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September) and making the 8-hour day a worldwide objective by workers organizations and socialist parties worldwide.Under Socialist Party of America presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, socialist opposition to World War I led to the governmental repression collectively known as the First Red Scare. The Socialist Party declined in the 1920s, but nonetheless often ran Norman Thomas for President. In the 1930s, the Communist Party USA took importance in labor and racial struggles while it suffered a split which converged in the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. In the 1950s, socialism was affected by McCarthyism and in the 1960s it was revived by the general radicalization brought by the New Left and other social struggles and revolts. In the 1960s, Michael Harrington and other socialists were called to assist the Kennedy administration and then the Johnson administration's War on Poverty and Great Society while socialists also played important roles in the Civil Rights Movement. Socialism in the United States has been composed of many tendencies, often in important disagreements with each other; it has included utopian socialists, social democrats, democratic socialists, communists, Trotskyists and anarchists.
The socialist movement in the United States has historically been relatively weak. Unlike socialist parties in Europe, Canada and Oceania, a major social democratic party never materialized in the United States and the socialist movement remains marginal, almost unique in its powerlessness among the Western democracies. In the United States, socialism brings considerable stigma, in large part for its association with authoritarian communist regimes. A June 2015 Gallup poll revealed that 47% of respondents would vote for a socialist President while 50% would not. Willingness to vote for a socialist President was 59% among Democrats, 49% among independents and 26% among Republicans. An October 2015 poll found that 49% of Democrats had a favorable view of socialism compared to 37% for capitalism. According to a 2013 article in The Guardian: Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't have an innate allergy to socialism. Milwaukee has had several socialist mayors (Frank Zeidler, Emil Seidel, and Daniel Hoan). In 1920, Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs won nearly 1m [million] v ...
Economic history of the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Economic history of the United States
00:00:31 1 Colonial economy to 1780s
00:01:30 1.1 Demographics
00:03:32 1.2 The economy
00:07:14 1.2.1 New England
00:09:52 1.3 Urban centers
00:13:14 1.4 Political environment
00:13:23 1.4.1 Mercantilism: old and new
00:15:04 1.4.2 Free enterprise
00:16:20 1.4.3 Taxation
00:17:42 1.5 The American Revolution
00:23:41 2 The New Nation
00:26:03 2.1 Industry and commerce
00:26:12 2.1.1 Transportation
00:26:51 2.1.2 Automatic flour mill
00:27:23 2.1.3 Cotton gin
00:27:57 2.1.4 Mechanized textile manufacturing
00:29:35 2.2 Finance, money and banking
00:30:07 3 The early 19th century
00:31:00 3.1 Political developments
00:35:18 3.2 Agriculture, commerce and industry
00:35:28 3.2.1 Population growth
00:37:18 3.2.2 Labor shortage
00:38:09 3.2.3 Agriculture
00:40:15 3.2.4 Roads
00:41:56 3.2.5 Canals
00:43:48 3.2.6 Steam power
00:45:18 3.2.7 Mechanical power transmission
00:45:55 3.2.8 Shipbuilding
00:46:22 3.2.9 Steamboats and steam ships
00:48:17 3.2.10 Railroads
00:49:59 3.2.11 Manufacturing
00:53:16 3.2.11.1 Development of interchangeable parts
00:57:10 3.3 Finance, money and banking
01:01:04 3.3.1 Economics of the War of 1812
01:04:50 4 The mid 19th century
01:06:46 4.1 Commerce, industry and agriculture
01:07:04 4.1.1 Railroads
01:09:16 4.1.2 Iron industry
01:10:55 4.1.3 Coal displaces wood
01:12:23 4.1.4 Manufacturing
01:14:32 4.1.5 Steam power
01:15:39 4.1.6 Steamboats and ships
01:17:02 4.1.7 Telegraph
01:17:51 4.1.8 Urbanization
01:18:40 4.1.9 Agriculture
01:21:07 4.1.9.1 Slave labor
01:21:59 4.2 Finance, money and banking
01:23:22 4.2.1 Panic of 1857
01:25:44 4.3 Immigration surge
01:26:05 4.4 Collapse of the South
01:27:28 4.5 Political developments
01:28:30 4.5.1 Treasury
01:31:30 4.5.2 Land grants
01:34:44 4.5.3 Banking
01:35:18 4.5.4 Education
01:35:53 4.5.5 Civil War
01:37:30 5 Late 19th century
01:37:40 5.1 Commerce, industry and agriculture
01:40:04 5.1.1 Railroads
01:41:46 5.1.2 Steel
01:42:47 5.1.3 Electric lights and electric street railways
01:44:59 5.1.4 Communications
01:45:54 5.1.5 Modern business management
01:46:49 5.1.6 Agriculture
01:50:15 5.1.7 Oil, minerals and mining
01:50:24 5.1.7.1 Oil
01:54:27 5.1.7.2 Coal
01:54:40 5.1.7.3 Iron ore
01:55:05 5.1.8 Finance, money and banking
01:56:45 5.1.9 Water supply and sewers
01:57:13 5.1.10 Labor unions
01:57:50 5.1.11 Political developments
01:58:13 6 Early 20th century
01:58:23 6.1 Economic growth and the 1910 break
01:59:42 6.2 Industry, commerce and agriculture
02:00:19 6.2.1 Electrification
02:02:39 6.2.2 Manufacturing
02:05:14 6.2.3 Electric street railways
02:05:47 6.2.4 Electrochemicals
02:06:46 6.2.5 Railroads
02:07:50 6.2.6 Automobiles and trucks
02:08:46 6.2.7 Highway system
02:09:42 6.2.8 Water supply and sewers
02:10:41 6.2.9 Agriculture
02:11:46 6.2.10 Communications
02:11:54 6.2.10.1 Telephone
02:12:34 6.2.10.2 Radio
02:13:18 6.2.11 Finance, money and banking
02:15:30 6.3 Political developments
02:18:57 6.3.1 World War I
02:19:18 6.3.2 Roaring twenties: 1920–1929
02:20:39 6.4 Quality of life
02:21:58 7 From 1929 through World War II
02:22:09 7.1 Pre-war industry, commerce, and agriculture
02:22:43 7.1.1 Manufacturing
02:23:13 7.2 Great Depression: 1929–1941
02:24:27 7.2.1 Spending
02:24:30 7.2.2 Banking crisis
02:26:18 7.2.3 Unemployment
02:28:31 7.2.4 Relief
02:30:40 7.2.5 New Deal impact
02:33:46 7.3 Wartime output and controls: 1940–1945
02:34:01 7.4 Household gas, water, electricity, sanitation, heating, refrigeration
02:34:59 8 Postwar prosperity: 1945–1973
02:37:10 8.1 Agriculture
02:37:39 8.1.1 Farm machinery, fertilizer and high yield seed varieties
02:39:53 8.1.2 Government policies
02:40:02 8.2 Aircraft and air transportation industries
02:41:01 8.3 Housing
02:42:09 8.4 Interstate highway system
02:44:00 8.5 Computer Technology
02:46:04 8.6 Fiscal Policy
02:46:19 8.7 Military and space spending
02:47:04 9 Late 20th century
02:47:40 9.1 Post industrial (service) economy
02:49:18 9.2 Service sector expansion
02:49:27 9.3 Productivity slowdown
02:50:06 9.4 Inflation woes: 1970s
02:50:22 9.5 Deregulation and Reaganomics: 1976–1992
02:50:52 9.6 The rise of globalization: 1990s – late 2000
02:53:34 10 The 21st century
02:59:59 10.1 Great Recession
03:00:47 11 Historical statistics
03:01:26 11.1 GDP
03:04:51 11.1.1 1790–2006 GDP
03:05:01 11.2 Employment
03:05:10 11.3 Manufacturing
03:05:20 11.4 Wealth and Income
03:05:29 11.5 Productivity
03:05:37 11.6 Inequality
03:05:46 11.7 Health spending
03:06:10 11.8 Tariff Rates
03:06:18 11.9 Trade Balance
03:06:27 11.10 Inflation
03:06:35 11.11 US Federal Tax
03:06:44 11.12 Government spending
03:06:52 11.13 Debt
03:07:01 11.14 Deficit
03:07:10 12 See also
03:07:18 13 Footnotes
03:07:26 14 Bibliography
03:07:57 14.1 References
03:08:06 14.2 Special studies
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The technological and industrial history of the United States describes the United States' emergence as one of the most technologically advanced nations in the world. The availability of land and literate labor, the absence of a landed aristocracy, the prestige of entrepreneurship, the diversity of climate and a large easily accessed upscale and literate free market all contributed to America's rapid industrialisation. The availability of capital, development by the free market of navigable rivers, and coastal waterways, and the abundance of natural resources facilitated the cheap extraction of energy all contributed to America's rapid industrialization. Fast transport by the very large railroad built in the mid-19th century, and the Interstate Highway System built in the late 20th century, enlarged the markets and reducing shipping and production costs. The legal system facilitated business operations and guaranteed contracts. Cut off from Europe by the embargo and the British blockade in the War of 1812 (1807–15), entrepreneurs opened factories in the Northeast that set the stage for rapid industrialization modeled on British innovations.
From its emergence as an independent nation, the United States has encouraged science and innovation. As a result, the United States has been the birthplace of 161 of Britannica's 321 Greatest Inventions, including items such as the airplane, internet, microchip, laser, cellphone, refrigerator, email, microwave, personal computer, Liquid-crystal display and light-emitting diode technology, air conditioning, assembly line, supermarket, bar code, automated teller machine, and many more.The early technological and industrial development in the United States was facilitated by a unique confluence of geographical, social, and economic factors. The relative lack of workers kept United States wages nearly always higher than corresponding British and European workers and provided an incentive to mechanize some tasks. The United States population had some semi-unique advantages in that they were former British subjects, had high English literacy skills, for that period (over 80% in New England), had strong British institutions, with some minor American modifications, of courts, laws, right to vote, protection of property rights and in many cases personal contacts among the British innovators of the Industrial Revolution. They had a good basic structure to build on. Another major advantage, which the British lacked, was no inherited aristocratic institutions. The eastern seaboard of the United States, with a great number of rivers and streams along the Atlantic seaboard, provided many potential sites for constructing textile mills necessary for early industrialization. The technology and information on how to build a textile industry was largely provided by Samuel Slater (1768–1835) who emigrated to New England in 1789. He had studied and worked in British textile mills for a number of years and immigrated to the United States, despite restrictions against it, to try his luck with U.S. manufacturers who were trying to set up a textile industry. He was offered a full partnership if he could succeed—he did. A vast supply of natural resources, the technological knowledge on how to build and power the necessary machines along with a labor supply of mobile workers, often unmarried females, all aided early industrialization. The broad knowledge of the Industrial Revolution and Scientific revolution helped facilitate understanding for the construction and invention of new manufacturing businesses and technologies. A limited government that would allow them to succeed or fail on their own merit helped.
After the close of the American Revolution in 1783, the new government continued the strong property rights established under British rule and established a rule of law necessary to protect those ...
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The economic history of the United States is about characteristics of and important developments in the U.S. economy from colonial times to the present. The emphasis is on economic performance and how it was affected by new technologies, especially those that improved productivity, which is the main cause of economic growth. Also covered are the change of size in economic sectors and the effects of legislation and government policy. Specialized business history is covered in American business history.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The technological and industrial history of the United States describes the United States' emergence as one of the most technologically advanced nations in the world. The availability of land and literate labor, the absence of a landed aristocracy, the prestige of entrepreneurship, the diversity of climate and a large easily accessed upscale and literate free market all contributed to America's rapid industrialisation. The availability of capital, development by the free market of navigable rivers, and coastal waterways, and the abundance of natural resources facilitated the cheap extraction of energy all contributed to America's rapid industrialization. Fast transport by the very large railroad built in the mid-19th century, and the Interstate Highway System built in the late 20th century, enlarged the markets and reducing shipping and production costs. The legal system facilitated business operations and guaranteed contracts. Cut off from Europe by the embargo and the British blockade in the War of 1812 (1807–15), entrepreneurs opened factories in the Northeast that set the stage for rapid industrialization modeled on British innovations.
From its emergence as an independent nation, the United States has encouraged science and innovation. As a result, the United States has been the birthplace of 161 of Britannica's 321 Greatest Inventions, including items such as the airplane, internet, microchip, laser, cellphone, refrigerator, email, microwave, personal computer, Liquid-crystal display and light-emitting diode technology, air conditioning, assembly line, supermarket, bar code, automated teller machine, and many more.The early technological and industrial development in the United States was facilitated by a unique confluence of geographical, social, and economic factors. The relative lack of workers kept United States wages nearly always higher than corresponding British and European workers and provided an incentive to mechanize some tasks. The United States population had some semi-unique advantages in that they were former British subjects, had high English literacy skills, for that period (over 80% in New England), had strong British institutions, with some minor American modifications, of courts, laws, right to vote, protection of property rights and in many cases personal contacts among the British innovators of the Industrial Revolution. They had a good basic structure to build on. Another major advantage, which the British lacked, was no inherited aristocratic institutions. The eastern seaboard of the United States, with a great number of rivers and streams along the Atlantic seaboard, provided many potential sites for constructing textile mills necessary for early industrialization. The technology and information on how to build a textile industry was largely provided by Samuel Slater (1768–1835) who emigrated to New England in 1789. He had studied and worked in British textile mills for a number of years and immigrated to the United States, despite restrictions against it, to try his luck with U.S. manufacturers who were trying to set up a textile industry. He was offered a full partnership if he could succeed—he did. A vast supply of natural resources, the technological knowledge on how to build and power the necessary machines along with a labor supply of mobile workers, often unmarried females, all aided early industrialization. The broad knowledge of the Industrial Revolution and Scientific revolution helped facilitate understanding for the construction and invention of new manufacturing businesses and technologies. A limited government that would allow them to succeed or fail on their own merit helped.
After the close of the American Revolution in 1783, the new government continued the strong property rights established under British rule and established a rule of law necessary to protect those pro ...