Chapters 14 Padlet by Ashton Dixon https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d en-us 2016-11-06 19:38:15 UTC 2026-01-05 22:59:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rafaelo.png Why was transportation—particularly the canals and the railroads—so important in the early stages of industrialization? ashtondixon21 https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135629379 Transportation allowed industries to receive supplies and send products a lot faster. ]]> 2016-11-06 19:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135629379 Which technological innovation was most important for early-nineteenth-century economic development? ashtondixon21 https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135630463 The steam boat allowed the economy to grow across the entire nation whereas before it was growing in each individual state. It also helped spread goods downstream and now upstream.]]> 2016-11-06 20:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135630463 What effects did the movement from a subsistence to a market economy have on American society, including farmers, laborers, and women? What were the advantages and disadvantages of the change? ashtondixon21 https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135630942 Farmers were able to produce more food and sell it for more money. Laborers had the opportunity to start working in factories. And women were able to provide for themselves. The disadvantages is that the market economy created a more dangerous workplace and created a bigger gap between the rich and the poor.]]> 2016-11-06 20:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135630942 What caused the market and transportation revolutions of the nineteenth century? As you read this chapter, how many different reasons for the development of these changes can you identify? ashtondixon21 https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135631574 The Industrial Revolution was one of the main causes for both of these revolutions. The Industrial Revolution required better transportation in order to provide products to different parts of the nation. It helped grown the market revolution because it tied the south and the north together to create a central economy.]]> 2016-11-06 20:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135631574 CHAPTER 14 ashtondixon21 https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135632285 2016-11-06 20:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135632285 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? ashtondixon21 https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135632323 Really only the North benefited from factories. The South's and the West's economy were based on agriculture. The South's economic rate did not change. ]]> 2016-11-06 20:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135632323 How does the image of the frontier compare with the reality of pioneer life as described in the chapter? ashtondixon21 https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135632889 Most of the people that moved out West ended up in poverty. They were also prone to diseases and often died young. ]]> 2016-11-06 20:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135632889 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? ashtondixon21 https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135633404 During this time period, many immigrants and Americans moved out West. The farming land was very cheap and easy to grow crops on. The United State's population shifted from the East Coast to the Mid-Western area due to this migration.]]> 2016-11-06 20:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ashtondixon21/pl5pg6xs139d/wish/135633404