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http://www.smithsoniansource.org/display/primarysource/viewdetails.aspx?TopicId=&PrimarySourceId=1018
-Westward migration primary source

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https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/gilded-age/essays/history-times-industrial-revolution
-Factory primary source

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-Farmers were helped by new inventions, it allowed them to plant new crops which provided more food for families
-Laborers were affected by  more inventions and factories, which led to more jobs and more immigrants
-Factories led to less homemade goods and made women have fewer children; unmarried women could work in a factory
- (Advantages) More products, more competition, technology advances, women had larger roles, and territorial expansion
-(Disadvantages) Dangerous factory conditions, strikes, little pay, and long hours

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-Cheap and efficient carriers were imperative if raw materials were to be transported to factories and if finished products were to be delivered to consumers
-The transformations in the Northeast—canal consequences—showed how long-established local market structures could be swamped by the emerging behemoth of a continental economy
-Railroad was fast, reliable, cheaper than canals to construct, and not frozen over in winter. Able to go almost anywhere, even through the Allegheny barrier, it defied terrain and weather

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-The railroad was the most important economic development
-It was fast, reliable, cheaper than canals to construct, and not frozen over in winter.

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-It opened more land and populated more cities
-It carried raw materials to factories and carried finished products to consumers
-The economy also boosted

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-Legend portrays an army of muscular axmen triumphantly carving civilization out of the western woods.
In reality life was downright grim for most pioneer families; Poorly fed, ill-clad, housed in hastily erected shanties
-Loneliness haunted them, especially the women, who were often cut off from human contact, even their neighbors, for days or even weeks; Breakdowns and even madness were all too frequently the “opportunities” that the frontier offered to pioneer women.