Questions:
Market Expansion & Early Industrialization
1. Identify the contribution to advancing manufacturing generated by each of the following
a. new business organizations
b. the Waltham system
c. transportation innovations
d. a protective tariff
e. patents
f. increased worker productivity
g. mechanization & new water & steam power driven machinery
h. industrial espionage
i. cheap immigrant labor
j. increased consumer demand
2. Examine Tables 10.1 and 10.2. Use Table 10-.1 to explain some of the New England data contained in Table 10.2.
3. Why did so much manufacturing take root in the northern and middle states (Table 10.2) and bypass the southern states.
Labor during the early Industrial Period
1. Explain the change in immigrating worker numbers contained in Table 11.1 and the change in population contained in Table 11.2. Also explain how the change might generate more economic growth?
2. Summarize the life of a typical 19th century New England mill worker.
3. Identify the composition of America's first important immigration wave of the 19th century.
4. What conclusion should one reach after examining the data contained in Table's 11.4 and 11.5.
5. In the early industrial period of the 19thcentury what were the legal and societal constraints on worker organizing and union formation.
6. What societal changes were bettering the lives and overall well being of average folks in the 2nd half of the 19th century?