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===Further immigration, expansion, and development=== | ===Further immigration, expansion, and development=== | ||
By 1710, the country had fully recovered and transitioned from Kingdom to Republic. With this, the United Republic resumed its involvement in international affairs, and began engaging in territorial acquisitions beyond the | By 1710, the country had fully recovered and transitioned from Kingdom to Republic. With this, the United Republic resumed its involvement in international affairs, and began engaging in territorial acquisitions beyond the [[Inner Islands]]. Starting in 1721, the United Republic, through various methods, steadily expanded throughout the remaining Isles, establishing new settlements as well incorporating preexisting ones across what was then collectively referred the "Frontier Territories", nowadays officially called the "[[Outer Islands]]"; By 1840, the entirety of the "Frontier" was under the complete jurisdiction the United Republic. | ||
Overseas, the United Republic began exerting its influence at first indirectly through intermediaries, most notably via the [[Alstinian Trade Company]], then later directly via diplomacy, trade, and military action. In 1750, there were 35 overseas trading outposts, most of being concentrated in and around South Crona; By 1900, there over 300 outposts around the globe, some of which, particularly those on the Cronan continent, would eventually merge together to form larger territorial holdings | Overseas, the United Republic began exerting its influence at first indirectly through intermediaries, most notably via the [[Alstinian Trade Company]], then later directly via diplomacy, trade, and military action. In 1750, there were 35 overseas trading outposts, most of being concentrated in and around South Crona; By 1900, there over 300 outposts around the globe, some of which, particularly those on the Cronan continent, would eventually merge together to form larger territorial holdings. | ||
Domestically, the Isles, beginning in the early 19th century, experienced a rise in urbanization and an unprecedented influx of immigrants from both the Occident and the Orient, which in turn supplied a surplus of labor for the country's industrialization and transformed its culture. National infrastructure, including telegraph and railroads, spurred economic growth and greater settlement and development of the "Frontier". The later invention of electric light and the telephone would also affect communication and urban life. | |||
Rapid economic development during the late 18th and early 20th centuries fostered the rise of many prominent industrialists, many of whom led the nation's progress in the railroad, petroleum, and steel industries. Banking became a major part of the economy, further spurring its growth into becoming one of the world's largest. These dramatic changes were accompanied by growing inequality and social unrest, which prompted the rise of organized labor along with populist, socialist, and anarchist movements. This period eventually ended with the advent of the Reformist Era, which saw significant reforms including women's suffrage, a shift in alcohol consumption habits, regulation of consumer goods, and greater antitrust measures to ensure competition and attention to worker conditions. | |||
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