America in the 1800's-1900. please answer ASAP!!!!?

Question

"The overarching historical trend in the united states, 1815-1900, is industrialization. All other aspects of life, from race/ethnic, gender, and class relations to political movements to economics, culture are subordinate to industrialization." do you agree with this statement? why or why not?

Answer 1

Gee, this sounds exactly like a question I've had to deal with before.
Well, if one considers that modes of transportation changed more significantly from 1800-1900 than it had from 1800 BCE to 1800 CE, then sure, one could make this case. Whether by boat of animal's back, by foot or by cart, transportation hadn't changed in 5,000 years, until the steam engine came along (perhaps we can give credit to Robert Fulton for this one?). Suddenly there were railroads, then steam ships, then came the telegraph and elctricity, and finally by 1900 there were 5,000 automobiles in the United States.
Perhaps I am making my own case here. However, in the midst of all of this change, there were individual areas where no progress, at all, was being made, medicine, for example. The average high schooler today knows more about medicine than doctors did at the time of the Civil War, chiefly because of germ theory.
In addition, one might also argue that industrialization was a hit and miss thing. Sure it affected certain areas, but the South was still stuck in their paternalistic slavery that anchored them to a rural society that was hardly technologically progressive. Should one consider this? What about Frederick Jackson Turners "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" in which he suggests that it was the constant presence of a frontier line that provided the United States with its unique character and growth. People were always able to move west to an area where land was cheap and available, it was their escape valve, and there they could re-create society and civilization. Perhaps this was the most important aspect of America during the 19th century?