industrialization

Examples of industrialization in the following topics:

• Industrial Recovery

  • It was one of the most prominent and controversial New Deal laws focused on boosting the industry.
  • Title I of the Act was devoted to industrial recovery.
  • Johnson, whom Roosevelt made responsible for industrial recovery.
  • While some complained that the federal government was too involved in the regulation of the industry, others pointed out that it was industries that mostly wrote the codes and thus preserved a fair amount of control.
  • The agency now promoted  industrial cooperation and produced economic studies.

• The Economy of the Middle Colonies

  • Abundant forests attracted both the lumbering and shipbuilding industries to the Middle Colonies.
  • These industries, along with the presence of deep river estuaries, led to the appearance of important ports like New York and Philadelphia.
  • While the Middle Colonies had far more industry than the Southern Colonies, they still did not rival the industry of New England.
  • In Pennsylvania, sawmills and gristmills were abundant, and the textile industry grew quickly.
  • Other important industries included printing, publishing, and the related industry of papermaking.

• The Growth of the Cotton Industry

  • Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793 resulted in massive growth in the cotton industry in the American South.
  • With the invention of Whitney's cotton gin, cotton became a tremendously profitable industry, creating many fortunes in the antebellum South.
  • Due to its profound effect on American slavery, the growth of the cotton industry is frequently cited as one of the causes of the American Civil War.
  • The invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the textile industry in the early nineteenth century and transformed the economy of the South.
  • The cotton industry in the South was fully dependent on the institution of slavery.

• Automobiles, Airplanes, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line Progress

  • The great industrial output of the 1920s saw the automobile, petroleum, chemical, radio, and film industries skyrocket.
  • The 1920s can be viewed as a period of great industrial production in America.
  • The automobile, petroleum, steel, and chemical industries skyrocketed in their production during this period.
  • Industries related to the manufacturing and use of automobiles grew.
  • Most industries switched from coal power to electricity and new power plants were constructed.

• Robber Barons and the Captains of Industry

  • Some nineteenth-century industrialists who were called "captains of industry" overlap with those called "robber barons".
  • He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.
  • Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.
  • Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
  • Identify the qualities of a robber baron and a captain of industry

• Economic Development in the North

  • The North had a more highly-developed industrial economy that led to military success during the Civil War and sustained economic growth after the war.
  • The more industrialized economy of the North aided in the production of arms, munitions and supplies, as well as financial stability and ease of transportation.
  • The idea was that control over cotton exports would make an independent Confederacy economically prosperous, ruin the textile industry of New England, and—most importantly—would force Great Britain and perhaps France to support the Confederacy militarily because their industrial economies depended on Southern cotton.
  • Machinery became a major industry and many types of machines were developed.
  • Vanderbilt, a transportation tycoon, contributed greatly to the industrial development of the North in the years immediately following the Civil War.

• Protective Tariffs

  • The industrial age was just starting, and the United States had little or no textile industry, which was the keystone of early industrial societies.
  • Calhoun saw the need for more federal income and industry.
  • In wartime, they declared, having a home industry was a necessity to avoid shortages.
  • Once industrialization and mass production started, manufacturers and factory workers demanded higher tariffs.
  • Nearly every northern Congressman was eager to adopt a higher tariff rate for his local industry.

• Conclusion: An Industrializing Economy

  • The early nineteenth century in the United States saw the rapid rise in industry, which had profound economic and social effects.
  • By the 1830s, the United States had developed a thriving industrial and commercial sector in the Northeast.
  • These industrial and market revolutions, combined with advances in transportation, transformed the economic and social landscape.
  • Advances in industrialization and the Market Revolution came at a human price.
  • New industrial towns, including Waltham, Lowell, and countless others, dotted the landscape of the Northeast.

• Early Textile Manufactures

  • The Industrial Revolution in the United States profoundly transformed the textile industry and the economy of New England.
  • At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the textile industry was rife with potential for mechanization.
  • Textile production was industrialized first in England.
  • Slater's Mill was established in the Blackstone Valley, which became one of the earliest industrialized regions in the United States.
  • Most laborers in this industry were women, though textile manufacturers frequently employed children as well.

• Planter Power

  • The Tariff of 1828 was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States.
  • The major goal of the tariff was to protect industries in the northern United States which were being driven out of business by low-priced imported goods by putting a tax on them.
  • New England importers and ship owners also had reason to oppose provisions targeting their industries—provisions inserted by Democratic Party legislators to coerce New Englanders to sink the legislation.
  • Those in Western states and manufacturers in the Mid-Atlantic States argued that strengthening the industrial capacity of the nation was in the interest of the entire country.
  • The Democratic Party had miscalculated: despite the insertion of import duties by Democrats calculated to be unpalatable to New England industries, most specifically on raw wool imports, essential to the wool textile industry, the New Englanders failed to sink the legislation, and their plan backfired.