https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma en-us 2016-11-03 14:43:15 UTC 2025-04-04 17:30:08 UTC hello@padlet.com 275696 https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135104344 1. How does the image of the frontier compare with the reality of pioneer life as describes in the chapter? 
The image of the frontier was of moving to land out west, where there was opportunity and they could make money quickly. Once they got there though, reality set in when they realized there were diseases, they were poorly fed, depressed, ill-clad, there was premature death and unbearable loneliness. ]]> 2016-11-03 14:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135104344 275696 https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135104621 2. Why was transportation-particularly the canals and the railroads-so important in the early stages of industrialization?
Before the revolution of transportation waterborne commerce was slow, stagecoaches traveled on bone shaking, muddy roads in which horses could sink, and it took shippers months to deliver yarn 60 miles. When the steamboat was created it provided the opening of the west and south and populating river cities. Turnpikes helped with the booming westward movement. There then was a way created for less bumpy and muddy roads. ]]> 2016-11-03 14:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135104621 275696 https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135105195 3. Which technological innovation was most important for early-nineteenth-century economic development? 
The Steamboat, Reaper, and Cotton Gin were the 3 major inventions that made the economic boom. Although all of these inventions were important the most important one was the reaper. The reaper revolutionized farming and created a lot more crops in harvest time than any other machine or workers put together. ]]> 2016-11-03 14:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135105195 275696 https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135105802 4. The effects it had on farmers was more inventions helped to plant more crops and provide for more people. The effects on laborers was if there was more inventions there would be more factories, jobs, immigrants, and more workers. The effects on women was that factories meant less need for homemade goods, made women closer to family, there were less children, and single women could work in factories. The advantages was that there was more competition, more goods provided, cheaply-made goods (lower prices), women had a voice, technological advances, and territorial expansion. The disadvantages were long hours, brutal/dangerous conditions, little pay, increased strikes and conflicts, and there was a greater gap between rich and poor. ]]> 2016-11-03 14:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135105802 275696 https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135123778 5. As the industrial revolution in the northeast altered the economy and intensified the process of  urbanization, an agricultural empire began to emerge in the west. The soil in New England was incapable of producing agricultural crops beyond a subsistence level, resulting in a steady stream of men and women moving west to take advantage of the rich land. ]]> 2016-11-03 15:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135123778 275696 https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135124484 6. In this chapter, the authors maintain that "clearly the early factory system did not shower its benefits evenly on all." What relevant historical evidence can you find in this chapter or the previous ones that supports, modifies, or refutes this assertion? 
An historical piece of evidence that supports this claim is the 1833 Factory Act. This act improved the working conditions for children in factories. This act shows that not all the factory benefits were given to everyone. This act said that no child under 9 can work, they can't work at night, children need at least 2 hours of schooling each day, children 9-13 can work no more than 9 hours, children 13-18 can't work more than 12 hours a day, and employers need age certificates.  Children, especially boys, were forced to work to help with the families needs. They needed to help provide for the family.]]> 2016-11-03 15:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135124484 275696 https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135125689 7. As you read this chapter, can you combine the information from the primary source excerpts, tables, figures, maps, and text to create a persuasive understanding of westward migration and demographic changes in the United States from 1790 to 1860? 
Westward Movement, the populating by Europeans, of the land within the continental boundaries of the mainland United States, a process that began shortly after the first colonial settlements were established along the Atlantic coast.]]> 2016-11-03 15:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/275696/gdjp9hl4auma/wish/135125689