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This facilitated America's westward expansion and economic development by connecting the frontier with the industrial, financial, and political centers of the East. Americans increasingly relied upon technological infrastructures like the railroad, electric, and telecommunications systems for economic and social activities.
The American reformers blamed peasant resistance to landownership for the law's failure and argued that large plantations and sharecropping was the Philippines' best path to development. [ 240 ] Elite Filipina women played a major role in the reform movement, especially on health issues.
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The economic history of the United States spans the colonial era through the 21st century. The initial settlements depended on agriculture and hunting/trapping, later adding international trade, manufacturing, and finally, services, to the point where agriculture represented less than 2% of GDP.
Modernisation refers to a model of a progressive transition from a "pre-modern" or "traditional" to a "modern" society. [1]The theory particularly focuses on the internal factors of a country while assuming that, with assistance, traditional or pre-modern countries can be brought to development in the same manner which more developed countries have.
This progress is forced through the development of human mind, and through increasing application of thought, reasoning and logic to the understanding of the world. [41] Comte saw the science-valuing society as the highest, most developed type of human organization. [40]
The ancestors of today's American Indigenous peoples were the Paleo-Indians; they were hunter-gatherers who migrated into North America. The most popular theory asserts that migrants came to the Americas via Beringia , the land mass now covered by the ocean waters of the Bering Strait .
The Exhibition of American Negroes was a key development in causing much of the French populace, but especially Parisians, to have more positive racial views of African-Americans than the racial views they have towards many other people of African descent (e.g. North African Black people).