Wednesday, October 31, 2007
In the early to mid 1800s, America expanded immensely. This was due to the improvements in industrialization and transportation. The US had a huge boom in factories in the 1820s and 30s. America started producing its own goods using mass-production methods with machines and workers, including women and children. Most of these factories were in the East, and the West was in an agricultural boom. This was caused by a major improvement in Americas transportation system. The US spent millions of dollars to build interstate highways, canals, and other ways of transit in the early 1800s. Factories in the East would produce algricultural machinery and other goods, and it would be sent West most likely via steamboat in canals and rivers. The farmers in the West would send their crops and livestock East. This helped the economies of both area greatly, and advanced America's economy as a whole. From this point on, towns and cities started popping up everywhere in America and becoming more populous. This is a sign that America was changing and people's lives were becoming more interconnected. Do you think more industrializtion caused better transportation, or the other way around?
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I don't think there is any way of knowing for sure which caused the other but I believe that it was a circular effect. Both industrialization and better transportation fed into each other and caused growth.
I think transportation led to better idustrialization. With railroads and the develpoment of roads and canals is what sparked an industrial surge. Now these factories could export the goods that they were producing and import the raw material needed at a faster rate.
I think that the increased transportation developments were what led to better industrialization in America. With less expensive transportation, it was easier to export and import goods faster. This led to great economic and industrial growth.
I think that transportation led to better development and industrialization in America. It made it easier to transport goods. It also made the transporting of ideas and goods work at a much faster rate. This led to great economic growth. Transportation was a building block for all the future ideas and types of transportation to come in later times.
The building of the railroad played a major role in the creation of industrialization. Without the railroad goods could not have been processed and shipped as quickly as they were which is what made the industrializaion so successful.
I believe that the more transportation that came about, the more people traded. The Northeast began trading with the Southwest and food could travel faster than ever. I think that trasportation was a huge movement during this time period
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I think that transportation caused better industrilization becasue with increased transportation, it became more practical for factories to be built because they could justify the cost of expansion because transport didnt cost as much.
I definitely think they helped each other. Transportation gave people a way to get things moving quicker and therefore they could be more efficient.
This period that saw the industrialization and transportation boom was the start of what America and really the world economy has become today. The infrasturcture laid down in this time period would eventually spread out as the economy boomed.
Industrialization was marked by heightened sense of transportation. Railroads were playing a major role in the shipment of products and supples and the rate of communication was also increasing. Without the increased speed in communication and transportation, industrialization would have been hard pressed to expand as it did.
I think they couldn't have done one without the other. They need industrialization to help make it possible for better transportaion but they need better transportation to for industrialization.
I think more industrialization created a demand for better and faster tranportaion. In order to allow good to get out to the consumers faster factories spent time and money to create better mechanism to feeed the supply of the consumers and to make more money.
I think having more industrialization helped the transportation system, but I don't think that it was the complete cause for it. I think that expansion was more the cause for the transportation systems. Before the states expanded, most of the ways of getting goods was through sea investments. Americans had to figure out a way to get goods to people on land as well, so they developed a better transportation system.
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