Midterm paper
...oney crop, was beginning to be exported by other countries. Large farms were broken into small parcels and sharecroppers grew crops, with part of their profits going to the land owners (Sutton.” Immigration was also a boost in the economy, due to large amount of people looking for jobs to support their large families, immigrants worked extra hard getting paid cheap labor for mass production. The thought of the many immigrants helping to build a stronger and more powerful country in many aspects never seizes to question me as to why during this particular time period, specific individuals like Henry James and Josiah Strong attacked immigration as a cultural problem. With the vast arrivals of many immigrants such as Italians, Jewish, Germans, Irish, Greeks, and Russians, Native-born Protestants struggled against the culture of immigrants (Boydston 514). Like any other immigrants from other countries, the Chinese too came to America to start a new life with their family, to live in the land of the free, to make money and to also support families back home in China. “The Chinese worked as coal miners, railroad repairmen, cooks, waiters, servants, barbers, doctors, priests, merchants, wash house attendants, and proprietors (Unknown).” In fact, a large population of Chinese were beginning to settle into Wyoming which roughly represented 4 percent of the countries entire Chinese population, however in 1880 the population had increased to 58% (Unknown). As technology began to transform drastically, so did society. “A new political economy based on wage labor large number of Americans, especially young men, now found themselves with cash and leisure time (Boydston 522).” Being free from the constraints of parents and the small-town life, wage workers spent their leisure time to pay for sexual amusement. The result of a more relaxed attitude towards sex, took a turn on the style of fashion, and the way people wore their clothing. For men, trousers were worn looser, the stiff starched collars had disappeared. “ Men adopted a more casual, comfortable mode of clothing as the sack suit became the attire of choice (Sutton)”. Like mens fashion, women’s fashion came ready-made, far more simplistic and comfortable. “Fashionable women continued to wear more elaborate dresses. The wire cage called a bustle was fastened around the way and extended the dress out in the back. A tightly laced corset gave them tiny waists and little room to breathe. Poor and middle-class women whose main occupations were housework wore more suitable clothes for work (Sutton).” While most of the country was now explored and settled, the inventions through the use of technology didn’t seem to stop. With the Civil War taking place, the use of technology allowed people to come up with new ways to improve weapons such advancing from breech loading carbine to repeating carbine. Also, due to the war, ambulances were developed in 1862 to transport wounded sliders. By the 1880's, the culture at large was impacted with the better transportation, now that the Brooklyn Bridge was completed after its six years in the ma...