HIST 172 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Workers United, Class Conflict, Natural Product
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Americans used the technologies to improve the economy and remake a new nation. Market revolution : economy and personal wealth grew up, but less workers. United states became a nation of free labor and slavery, of wealth and inequality. American life reshaped: class conflict, child labor, accelerated immigration, and the expansion of slavery. Exports increased the price of land carriage is too great improvements in american transportation european capital helped to build american infrastructure. Confidence man, counter bills, and a pending bust created anxiety. Transportation revolution: opened the vast lands west of the appalachian mountains; improved road networks improved the ways people and goods moved across the landscape. Communication revolution: telegraph redefined the limits of human communication. Farmers invested in new technologies: cyrus mccormick"s horse-drawn mechanical reaper & New technology and infrastructure, such as eric canal, steamboat, railroad increased the economic growth. Income became the measure of economic worth & business corporation appeared.
