Industrialization

How did railroads during the 1800's affect the U.S economy

• Opening new markets for goods

• Increasing the price of oil

• Increasing taxes on U.S citizens

• Decreasing wages for unskilled workers

During the early 1800's women left the country and moved to the city for what reason

• To be lawyers

• To work for elite newspapers as reporters

• To work on steamboats

• To work in the textile mills making cloth using a wheel such as the spinning jenny

Cities grew in the Northeast especially along the Hudson River in New York during the early nineteenth century due to

• Railroad lines

• Erie Canal

• Trade with Canada

How did the steamboat affect the U.S economy in the 1800's

• allowed for more efficient movement of goods

• Decreasing the cost of moving to western territories

• decreasing the amount of railroads needed

In this economic system, similar to what we have today, supply and demand, limited gov't, and private ownership are examples of

• Communism

• Socialism

• Free enterprise

Eli Whitney creates the Cotton Gin, which processes cotton more easily, so production increases as well due to

• More tobacco being grown

• Irish immigrants are moving to New Orleans

• Textile factories are growing in large numbers in the south

• Demand for slave increases in the south

New Transportation systems, abundance of laborers, availability of capital contributed to

• Labor Unions

• Women's Suffrage movement

• Early Industrialization

• A decrease in production of natural resources such as cotton

Which system allowed for the production and goods to be made for efficient

• Factory system of Industrialization

• Products made by hand

• Slave workers in plantations

What role did the creation of the cotton gin have on the expansion of plantations

• Decreasing the demand for cotton

• Increasing the time to take the seeds out of the cotton

• Reducing the number of slaves in the U.S.

• Making more money or profitability from slavery

How did early U.S. Industrialization change the culture of the U.S. in the early 1800's

• Production of goods were mostly made at factories instead of at home

• People were well trained and skilled before the started working

• People only had to work a 4 day workweek

• Goods became more expansive