Unit 4 LEQ - Grade: B+ PDF

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LEQ on the developing transportation and business expansion in the 1800s. How it affected the economy and changed the way businesses ran. Talks about canals and railroads and how they changed the economical world....

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Paige Nelson IB/AP US History Mr. Popovich 4 December 2020 Unit 4 LEQ In the early 1800s, the nation was developing rapid technological improvements, impacting transportation, communication, and overall the economy in the United States. These advancements significantly impacted the country, leading to the market revolution and opening up more opportunities for America's people. Through the development of transportation and the growing population, businesses expanded due to the progress of railroads, as well as the influx of new customers. The new railroad transportation led to the swift movement of citizens, traveling miles in minutes. This invention awed citizens, and the more tracks put into place, called for greater demand, providing more consumers for businesses. As this demand was increasing, railroads connected the states, so growing commerce among America. The Eerie Canal was also expanding business, but the railroads were cheaper, quicker, and had a vaster range for places that had to obstruct mountains. Massachusetts, in 1831 established the Worcester and Western Railroad furnishing the accelerated growth to the cities and towns along the way. It made it easier and cheaper to transport goods along the nation, making it more accessible for commercial companies to sell their products on a bigger scale. Products and goods were way more accessible to more people than before. Inevitably, the more the railroad industry grew, it grew the industries with the resources it was demanding: coal, steel, iron as proven in Baltimore and Ohio in 1828. The incoming demand called for more - which provided more occupational

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opportunities for Americans, broadening the businesses with more employees to grow their industry. Railroads played a generous contribution to the business world because of their ability to hold passengers, as well as their ability to carry freight. Due to the uprising population from the new transportation, the economy greatly profited. Laborers and consumers were essential in the technology inclination. It brought new people to the industries from newfound transit as well as immigration. The creation of railroads and other transportation connected the states bringing in new consumers for all the businesses within the states, allowing American commerce to thrive with excessive business. With the transportation revolution coming to a rise, there was an influx of consumers with a high demand for more resources are industries expanded. The business world was in a full economic circle, more tech, more people, more demand, more money, then back to the start. Consumers played a large part in making this circle go around. Railroads transformed small towns like Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, & Chicago into flourishing industrial centers of the enlarging nationwide economy. Both the railroads and the population growth made the Market Revolution possible, growing factories in the East. They provided the basis of income for the businesses not just to survive but thrive in the early 19th century....