How Did Transportation Change America

As the unemployment rate began to decrease and the factories became numerous, transportation improved and became an important part of America's lifestyle. Technology was updated and improved which greatly benefited transportation systems, as it allowed electric street cars, commuter trains, and subways to travel around America's major cities and transport workers who lived outside the cities to the factories (Lapsansky-Werner, Levy, Roberts, Taylor 104). By 1883, there were three transcontinental railroads spread around the U.S., but as the transportation systems began expanding, there was a barrier that made it difficult to set schedules. At the time, most of the cities and towns independently set their clocks, thus, the time

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This problem was fixed in 1884, when delegates from twenty-seven countries divided the globe into twenty-four time zones by which railroads today still use (Lapsansky-Werner, Levy, Roberts, Taylor 104). Orville and Wilbur Wright created a new industry, as they made successful the first airplane flight in 1903, which has made air travel possible and a popular transportation method in modern America. The automobile industry began to boom with much help of the carmaker Henry Ford. Ford used and brought mass production to a new level, as he in expensively created the Model-T car which sold for a price that was finally affordable to the majority of Americans. The industrial revolution sparked an improvement in technology and transportation that has benefitted America and made new sources of improvement

In the beginning, the advertising was aimed solely toward women, as they were seen as the "bedrock of American families" and mainly the only people who used consumer goods such as washing machines and dryers ("The Rise of Advertisement"). Newspapers and billboards became, at first, an opportunity for businesses to notify consumers of the latest product, but as advertising became popular, those businesses came up with memorable slogans, making the product seem better than others ("The Rise of Advertisement"). Advertisement became a competition between businesses as different manufacturers displayed unique qualities that made their products "better" than others. Commercialism began to "focus on the creation of wants and needs", and businessmen used carefully chosen words to make consumers feel it was necessary to own their product ("The Rise of Advertisement"). This is what began the popular and successful strategy of selling goods and making money. The increasing competition created by advertisement pointed America in the direction of successful capitalism and acts as the trigger for what primarily makes up the American capitalistic economy ("The Rise of