HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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The cost of shipping goods on eastern roads increased.
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The number of ships passing through northern ports decreased.
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The cost of shipping goods from the Midwest decreased
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The volume of trade passing through southern ports increased
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Erie Canal drastically reduced both the travel time and the cost of shipping commodities such as grain and lumber from the Midwest to the eastern seaboard. It led to an immediate and dramatic increase in the shipment of such goods, and the state’s investment in the monumental project paid off handsomely.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Erie Canal opened the Midwest to settlement. By providing a direct water route to the Midwest, the canal triggered large-scale emigration to the sparsely populated frontiers of western New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Industrial Revolution shifted from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.
Detailed explanation-4: -Industrial growth transformed American society. It produced a new class of wealthy industrialists and a prosperous middle class. It also produced a vastly expanded blue collar working class.
Detailed explanation-5: -labor in abundance. Lots of money to invest. New, talented group of businessmen [entrepreneurs] and advisors. Market growing as US population increased.
Detailed explanation-6: -Which statement best describes a result of industrialization in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century? People moved to cities in search of economic opportunity.