America’s Economic Revolution
Chapter 10
We will be talking about the information below all next week, so be sure you are prepared.
The answers to the questions below should be done in your notebook. When I return from MUN, I will check to make sure you have completed them.
Read pages 261 - 267 and answer the questions the below.
1. What were the reasons for and the effect of the rapid increase in population between 1820 and 1840?
2. What were the major immigrants groups that came to the United States and where did they settle?
3. Why was the rise of New York City so phenomenal? What forces combined to make it America’s leading city?
Read pages 278 - 283 and answer the questions the below.
1. What was the general condition of workers in the northeastern factories?
2. What attempts were made to better conditions in the northeastern factories? What role did unions play in these attempts, and what was accomplished?
Read pages 283 - 292 and answer the questions the below.
1. Why was the increasing wealth of America not widely or equally distributed?
2. How did the middle-class life in the years before the Civil War establish itself as the most influential cultural form of urban America?
