Effects of Industrialization/ Free Enterprise & Innovation

The completion of the Erie Canal played a key role in which development?

• New York City becoming a vital commercial center with the country's busiest seaport

• New Orleans becoming a leader in manufacturing and overseas trade

• Washington D.C. becoming the cultural and political center of the nation

• Boston becoming one of the country's largest transportation hubs

Why did slavery become a widespread practice in the United States during the early nineteenth century?

• The system of indentured servitude was banned

• The need for agricultural labor increased as a result of expanded cotton production

• Improved transportation systems made it easier for workers to migrate

• Advancements in technology led to the need for skilled workers

How did the plantation influence the economic development of the United States?

• It prevented the development of industry in the Northeast

• It turned the South into a major producer of the cotton used in northern mills

• It restricted expansion in the western territories

• It increased federal dependency on tariffs for revenue

After the War of 1812, thousands of settlers and immigrants moved to the western frontiers of the United States in search of farming and business opportunities. In response, the government began building roads. This transportation network was intended to---

• promote the free enterprise system

• establish federal control over industry

• discourage the organization of new territories

• prevent border disputes between states

How di the free enterprise system MOST benifit industrial developement in the first half of the 1800s?

• By allowing entrepreneurs to raise money and invest in companies

• By established quotas on immigrants

• By providing safe working conditions for factory workers

• By encouraging the government to put taxes on businesses

• the rise of industrialism in the United States

• the establishment of a federal income tax

• a prolonged food shortage in the United States

• a lengthy war over disputed territory

• permanent housing for immigrants in urban areas

• canals that linked the Midwest to the Northeast

• a transcontinental railroad

• a harbor on the Mississippi River

• A reduction in the number of skilled workers in northern states

• The expansion of manufacturing into the western territories

• A reduction in trade with European countries

• The expansion of slavery into newly acquired territories

• the demand for slaves increase in the South

• More textile factories are established in the South

• The number of European immigrants arriving at southern port cities increases

• More tabacco and food crops are cultivated on souther plantations

• Free Enterprise System

• Mercantile System

• Federalism

• Republicanism