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Chapter 3 Abstract American Diplomacy

Ben Boyd AP US History
Chapter 3 Abstract

Thesis: “To observers of the time and to most later historians, ‘cities’ meant the large industrial cities that had grown since the midnineteenth century, and most dramatically in the North and East. More important initially, however, were the many smaller cities that played an integral part in the early growth of urban society; the large city came later.” (47)

Quotes:
· “In their quest for economic growth they sought the help of state legislatures to provide funds for transportation or to establish state institutions such as academies and colleges, penitentiaries, or institutions for the insane in their town. These would bring them increased employment and business.” (49)
· “During the second half of the nineteenth century, a larger form of urbanization came to dominate the national scene – the industrial city.” (51)
· “Cities served as centers of the new economy, drawing labor, capital, and raw materials to themselves and sending out finished products. They became great shipping points and manufacturing centers, and were marked by vast accumulations of capital, technical skill, and managerial ability.” (52)
· “The industrial city organized commerce on a wider scale than did the town, often serving as a major center of wholesaling, from which the smaller towns and cities drew their supplies.” (52)
· “The big cities were not only centers of a higher level of commerce; they were also centers of industry on an even-larger scale.” (53)
· “Much of the nation’s growth in productive enterprise came from the economic development of the city.” (55)
· “Large numbers of people were drawn to the growing industrial cities not only from the surrounding rural countryside but also from abroad.” (57)
· “While 60 percent of those who lived in the nation’s twelve largest cities in 1900 were first- or second-generation immigrants, 40 percent came from the nation’s smaller towns and the countryside, most of them...