Industrialization In America

The beneficial rise of an industrialized economy becomes a step further into the world of urbanization. Factories, public works projects and new transportation routes all become a necessary development in creating a much more opportunistic country. While industrialization develops an innovative change in the economy, this becomes an issue environmentally and socially among individuals. Therefore, industrialization negatively impacts America by creating inequality on the working class, eliminating a portion of their freedom due to labor, and becoming harmful towards the environment. An uproar against factory owners emerges from those who work for them, creating an awareness of their own social class. Individuals begin predicting

“We have been told, in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal; but if one man must work for his dinner, and another need not, and does not, how are we equal?” (Skidmore 4) In other words, men working under the feet of the wealthy need labor to support themselves while the elite can have the ability to not lay hands on labor and still possess a hefty sum of money, further diminishing and segregating higher social class of aristocracy against the lower social class of the common laborer. Thus, the controversy concerning the wealthy was about avoiding hard working job occupation and being born into luxury, establishing a response of contrasting objection among the working class, the privileged class, and between this quarrel later conceived class formation. In Sam Patch, The Famous Jumper, “Sam has been born into the unstable margins of a world governed by inheritance, fixed social rank,

Although the progression of factories became a positive change toward American progress, the disadvantage of the change in environment lead some individuals to respond in discontent. An actress by the name of Fanny Kemble addresses in Sam Patch, “Truly, mills and steam-engines are wonderful things, and I know that men must live, but I wish it were not expedient to destroy what God has made so very beautiful, in order to make it useful” (Patch 149). Particularly, the creation of factories requires purging habitats, causing inhabitants of the areas to become wary of urbanization. Furthermore, scenic views for the public begin to be sacrificed as another means of production. A man by the name of Tim Crane, introduced in Sam Patch, converts public nature for his own business; requiring a toll in order to enter. An enormous amount of civilian responses towards the elimination of free public grounds develops as a series of vandalized toll gates even at Tim Crane. Therefore, the start of urbanization created a vast fluster among America rather than a