The People's EmpireIn an era riddled with unrest, massive expansion, technological progress and widespread migration of people, the German Empire remains its quintessence. An empire with unprecedented impact, even today we are discovering more and more information about this empire. The German Empire was officially established 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 world stage. Thanks to this, the people of the German Empire eventually saw their livelihoods increase. One way to measure a nation's success is to assess its migration trends. At a time when much of Europe was emigrating to the United States, the German Empire was actually experiencing a decline in the number of people emigrating and had the lowest emigration of any European country except the France, which had a lower emigration rate but experienced increased emigration in the late 1800s (Wilcox, Ferenczi). There are several reasons for the decline in the number of people leaving Germany for greener pastures in America. The rapid industrialization of the German Empire, the social programs implemented, and the massive technological innovations in Germany all created reasons for people to stay. The first and probably greatest reason why people stayed and prospered in the German Empire was its rapid industrialization. Lagging behind 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 be middle of paper ......the fare state in England and Germany, 1850-1914: comparison of social policies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print. Langer, William L. “The Franco-Russian Alliance (1890-1894). » The Slavic Review 3.9 (1925): 554-75. JSTOR. Internet. 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 in historical and economic geography. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1952. Print.Taylor, AJP Bismarck, the man and the statesman. New York: Knopf, 1955. Print. Willcox, Walter Francis and Imre Ferenczi. International migration. New York: Nat. Bureau of Economic Research, 1929. Print.