How A Changing Economy Impacts the Country Without the wanting of capitalistic change, this country would never be America. Instead, Native Americans would be migrating in teepees while buffalo and wild horses roam the grounds in place of cars. Without change, the youth of today would have no aspiration to get a degree, proper education, and life fulfilling job, because they would still be put in factories and sweatshops with despicable conditions. Without change, women, African Americans, and children would not have the human rights they have today, because they fought, shedding blood sweat and tears to receive them. The U.
S is labeled as a capitalist economic system which means Americans are competitive. Capitalism, is based on a definite “one man for himself” ideology. Americans strive to come out on top, and in the process they change, evolve, and struggle, and not just one person struggles, but the entire economy struggles in some form when someone else fights for the best spot on the social class attainable. Even still if a short-term effect on the country may result in a struggle, in the long-term people will receive the good change can provide. In short, yes, change is good for the economy.
When America started out, the country was flooded in population with the true natives: Native Americans. The Native American culture consisted of hunting and migration. They relied on buffalo for food, shelter, and clothes, and did not believe in practices White Americans did when they came to the country.
White Americans did not appreciate their culture as well and they had clashed, the outcome– the Indian Wars, which were brief bloody battles. There were stories of unprovoked American Indian attacks that had outraged the country, and the last of these “mini wars” was, the Battle of the Wounded Knee. There were quotes from the perspective of Europeans from their reasonings of why the wars had to have occurred. One quote from the Friends of the Indian Conference, represents the role of the white American in the life of a Native American. “We must make the Indian more intelligently selfish before we can make him unselfishly intelligent … and into trousers… with a pocket that aches to be filled with dollars!” According to Gates, these changes were vital for the American lifestyle, and their goal was to change the culture of Native Americans through assimilation. Most Americans desired making money, which required a minimum percentage of a “selfishly intelligent” mind. The white American didn’t appreciate nor respect Native culture and wanted them to adopt their practices of developing a capitalist country because that was how they planned to improve the economy, and planned to assimilate Natives in order for them to be like them.Once Native American culture was imperialised, the country was agricultural.
Farming had given people jobs, especially after the civil war, when beef was in high demand due to major migration toward cities. The times of agricultural dominating the economy put cowboys in great demand, they worked 10-14 hours per day on ranches, and longer on trails. White Americans never learned to deal with large herds and Mexican settlers taught them to round up, rope, brand, and care for animals and cattle. All these changes were good for the economy, because it developed the country into a growing nation. As the economy evolved, 400 million acres of forests had transformed into flourishing farms and prairies, leading to the next biggest step-factor: railroads.. An economy is established into a strong nation through growth of intelligence and knowledge of becoming successful.
Railroads became something that helped anyone from common people to the wealthiest– they were a national network! The Central Pacific railroad employed Chinese immigrants, the Union Pacific employed the Irish, and veterans would lay tracks across terrains, however their job was dangerous since Native Americans attacked. The first railroads statistics included 2,000 employees killed and and 20,000 injured. Even with the downfall, the railroad play