Causes Of Inclustrialization

Question 1

Legislative

Answer 1

• Emancipation → larger workforces
• pacific railway act → transcontinental railroad
• homestead act (gave Americans 160 acres of land out west for small cost and labor → encouraged westward expansion)
• Dawes act ( divided up Native American land, in an attempt to assimilate them)

Question 2

Technological

Answer 2

• New farming technology → increased demand for agriculture
• inventions; communication; energy
• better forms of transportation

Question 3

Cultural

Answer 3

• Women in the work force → cheep labor, mass production…
• urbanization
• spike in population → ** immigration ** → Catholics, Jews, Chinese