This time period was the time of the Second Industrial Revolution.
During this time, railroads began to be built. They were built quickly, because they were the fastest way of crossing a nation that now spanned three time zones. They were the only way of getting information quickly from place to place. Soon, railroads spanned the nation, crossing plains and tunneling through mountains.
The building of the railways opened up economic opportunities for the farmers because it was easier and faster to ship goods via railway.
However, now that the land was accessible for mining and farming because of transport, there was one problem left: it was inhabited. Therefore, the government forced Indians off the farming and mining land.
Now that there were more things being produced in factories, people started flooding to the city to look for work opportunities. The cities became more and more packed, but didn't expand outward too far, because electric elevators and steel reinforcing technology combined to make skyscrapers a reality.
Now that there were established paths though the wild midwest (railroads), telegraph lines lined up next to the railroads, and in that was got communication though even faster. These two things combined to bring a huge country closer together by speeding both communication and commute. Later, the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in the 1870s, and communication improved again. Individual electric lights, created by Thomas Edison, reached a lifespan where they could finally be cost-effective for their usefulness. Thomas Edison also invented the phonograph, which records sound, and the motion picture, although other people contributed aspects of the invention. For example, Thomas Armat and Francis Jenkins designed a device that projected the movie onto a screen so several people could watch at once.
Of course, these were only a few of the many, many advancements in the Second Industrial Revolution.
During this time, railroads began to be built. They were built quickly, because they were the fastest way of crossing a nation that now spanned three time zones. They were the only way of getting information quickly from place to place. Soon, railroads spanned the nation, crossing plains and tunneling through mountains.
The building of the railways opened up economic opportunities for the farmers because it was easier and faster to ship goods via railway.
However, now that the land was accessible for mining and farming because of transport, there was one problem left: it was inhabited. Therefore, the government forced Indians off the farming and mining land.
Now that there were more things being produced in factories, people started flooding to the city to look for work opportunities. The cities became more and more packed, but didn't expand outward too far, because electric elevators and steel reinforcing technology combined to make skyscrapers a reality.
Now that there were established paths though the wild midwest (railroads), telegraph lines lined up next to the railroads, and in that was got communication though even faster. These two things combined to bring a huge country closer together by speeding both communication and commute. Later, the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in the 1870s, and communication improved again. Individual electric lights, created by Thomas Edison, reached a lifespan where they could finally be cost-effective for their usefulness. Thomas Edison also invented the phonograph, which records sound, and the motion picture, although other people contributed aspects of the invention. For example, Thomas Armat and Francis Jenkins designed a device that projected the movie onto a screen so several people could watch at once.
Of course, these were only a few of the many, many advancements in the Second Industrial Revolution.