Industrialization Era

Era when the production of goods in factories, using machinery, replaced the making of goods by hand

• Industrial Revolution

• Factory System

• Free Enterprise System

• Transcontinental Railroad

Faster, cheaper, and easier with less waste

• Textile

• Rural

• Efficient

• Urban

Economic system with minimal government regulation (competition)

• Labor

• Factory System

• Free Enterprise System

• Mercantilism

Method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building

• Industrial Revolution

• Factory System

• Free Enterprise System

• Transcontinental Railroad

Cloth; Industry began at Lowell Mills in the New England region

• Textile

• Rural

• Efficient

• Urban

Moving from one country to another; Major factor in the success of the American Industrialization Revolution

• Labor

• Telegraph

• Railroad

• Immigration

The workforce

• Immigration

• Urban

• Labor

• Free Enterprise System

City; Large population center

• Textile

• Rural

• Efficient

• Urban

Country; Small population

• Textile

• Rural

• Efficient

• Urban

Manufacturing; Large Cities; Wage Labor

• Northern Economy

• Western Economy

• Southern Economy

• Eastern Economy