The People's EmpireIn an age filled with unrest, massive expansion, technological advances, and widespread migration of people, the German Empire remains its epitome. An empire of unparalleled impact, even today we are discovering more and more information about this empire. The German Empire was officially created in 1871 after the defeat of the French in the Franco-Prussian War. The unification of the German people created an environment that allowed for the rapid development and rise of the German Empire on the global stage. Thanks to this, people under the rule of the German Empire eventually saw their livelihoods increase. One way to measure a nation's success is its migration trend. During a period when much of Europe was emigrating to the United States, the German Empire actually experienced a decline in the number of people emigrating and experienced the lowest emigration of any European country aside from France, which had a of emigration lower but it was an experience of an increase in emigration at the end of the 1800s (Wilcox, Ferenczi). There are a few reasons to explain the decline in people leaving Germany for the greener pastures of America. The rapid industrialization of the German Empire, established welfare programs, and massive technological innovations in Germany all created reasons for people to stay. The first and most likely the main reason why people stayed and prospered in the German Empire was its rapid industrialization. Trailing the rest of the world in industry and technology, it wasn't until the mid-1800s that Germany finally began to industrialize, but it wasn't until the creation of the German Empire that there was full-fledged industrialization (SJSU). Part of the reason that allowed Germany to in...... middle of paper ......lfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies Compared. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.Langer, William L. “The Franco-Russian Alliance (1890-1894).” The Slavic Review 3.9 (1925): 554-75. JSTOR. Network. April 28, 2014. Lutz, Ralph Haswell. The German Revolution, 1918-1919. New York: AMS, 1968. Print.Mitchell, Allan. The Great Railway Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914. New York: Berghahn, 2000. Print.Pounds, Norman John Greville. The Ruhr; a study of historical and economic geography. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1952. Print.Taylor, A. J. P. Bismarck, the man and the statesman. New York: Knopf, 1955. Print.Willcox, Walter Francis, and Imre Ferenczi. International migrations. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1929. Print.