Research Paper on:
Contemporary American City Development

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of mass transportation, the use of technological and economic innovations, industrial production and foreign and internal migration. To varying extents, each of these forces played a role. Shortly after  the nation was born, there was a technological revolution of sorts and this would be the building blocks of the United States of America. Richard Arkwright is often credited  with revolutionizing the technical basis of cotton production between 1768 and 1792, which transformed the cottage industry to one of worldwide proportions (Fisk, 1998). Apart from developing machinery to do  the work, the man is also credited with creating the factory system and that earned him such titles as a founding father of the Industrial Revolution and the father of  the factory system (1998). The changes in working environments are obvious. With machinery and new inventions coming about, it would requisite new skills from the population. This was both difficult  and exciting. The world was changing immeasurably. During the 1700s, there was no such thing as mass transportation and people got around by the most primitive of means, particularly  as compared with what is available today. Again, technology would change things anyway, particularly as it pertained to industrial production. Between 1776 and the turn of the nineteenth century, there  would not be any significant economic policies, although it helps to remember that the start of the country was based on the premise of unfair taxation. Thus, taxation was always--and  still is--a hot button issue in America. Alexander Hamilton did however issue his Report on Manufactures which outlined a tariff program in order to encourage domestic innovation (Miller & Faux,  1997). It was the start of economic policy in America. Much of the migration at the time had to do with slavery but in 1781, Los Angeles was settled by