US History 8th Unit 08 Industrialization STAAR

Negatives of northern urbanization

• Pollution & Child Labor

• move people & goods, efficient

• Textiles, immigration, factories, urbanization, mass production, interchangeable parts

• Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

Characteristics of Northern Industrialism

• Little government regulation, hands off, private property

• Textiles, immigration, factories, urbanization, mass production, interchangeable parts

• Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

• Expanded slavery and plantations in the South, Textile mills grew in the north

Effects of railroads

• Pollution & Child Labor

• Long distance communication, Morse Code, Samuel Morse

• move people & goods, efficient

• Faster way to make steel, Henry Bessemer

Characteristics of Capitalism, Free Enterprise and Laissez-Faire:

• move people & goods, efficient

• Pollution & Child Labor

• Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

• Little government regulation, hands off, private property

Effects of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin

• Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

• Expanded slavery and plantations in the South, Textile mills grew in the north

• move people & goods, efficient

• Pollution & Child Labor

Effects of Canals and Robert Fulton’s steamboat

• Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

• Little government regulation, hands off, private property

• Textiles, immigration, factories, urbanization, mass production, interchangeable parts

• Manufacture of goods

Characteristics of the telegraph

• Agriculture, southern farms got bigger, Cyrus McCormick, John Deere

• Faster way to make steel, Henry Bessemer

• Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

• Long distance communication, Morse Code, Samuel Morse

Characteristics of the McCormick Reaper & the Steel Plow:

• Agriculture, southern farms got bigger, Cyrus McCormick, John Deere

• Faster way to make steel, Henry Bessemer

• Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

• Long distance communication, Morse Code, Samuel Morse

What was the Bessemer Process?

• Agriculture, southern farms got bigger, Cyrus McCormick, John Deere

• Faster way to make steel, Henry Bessemer

• Efficient transportation, caused prices to decrease

• Long distance communication, Morse Code, Samuel Morse

Innovation

• New or improved technology

• Manufacture of goods

• Massive Growth of cities

• helps mass produce goods