Sunday, November 25, 2007

Chapter 10 Notes 11/12/07

Majority of transportation of goods done by boat

Canal Age

Erie Canal is the most famous

Many canals failed miserably

Very costly

Few canals in South

Less money

Fewer rivers

Railroads

Early trunk lines

Tracks had different gauge width

Steel and ties

Competition between railroads and canals

Railroads win out

Faster, can go over mountains

Easier to build

Railroad consolidation

Connect trunk lines

Standardize gauge

Canals are advantageous for NE with many rivers

Telegraph lines along railroad tracks

Revolutionizes journalism

Associated Press

Decreases crime

Advent of Limited Liability Corporations

Inadequate Credit

Industry Changes

Shoe Industry especially

Shoes mass produced

Industrial Northeast

Mass produce interchangeable parts

Changes guns

Decline of Merchant Capitalism

Transformation of Agriculture

Moves West

Lowell System

Paternalistic system

Good system for women, treated well

System failed eventually

Boom and bust

Immigrant labor

Steps to women's liberation

Economic advantages of Immigrant labor

Much cheaper

Could be treated worse

Brings in unions

Deskilling of labor

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