Change in the north 1840s/50s

Question 1

Industry in the 1840s

Answer 1

Experienced growth

Question 2

Industrial exportation of goods began to match

Answer 2

Agriculture

Question 3

1860
More industrial workers

Answer 3

Than farmers

Question 4

Industrial capitalists

Answer 4

Investing capital was nearly double in the 1860s than the 1830s

Question 5

Transportation and communication

Answer 5

1840s
Railroad track took over cotton as the US’s main economic export

Question 6

By 1860

Answer 6

Most of the country was connected by railroad
Total track in 1840 2818 miles
Total track 1850 9000 miles

Question 7

4x as much track being built in the

Answer 7

North than the south

Question 8

Transportation meant communication improved

Answer 8

1854 first telegraph sent by Samuel Morse
Railroads became safer because of telegraphs

Question 9

Businessmen conducted business quicker and more effectively

Answer 9

Because of telegraphs

Question 10

Urban growth

Answer 10

Slave states did not grow into cities in the same was as the north

Question 11

Total population 1840: 23,000,000

Answer 11

Total population 1860: 32,000,000
Lots of people emigrated (more than half of the population were immigrants)

Question 12

Immigrant population

Answer 12

45% were Irish (freeing potato famine)
20% were German (brought savings with them)
Many of the Irish were single/women

Question 13

Nearly half of the population of

Answer 13

New York were immigrants

Question 14

Only a few immigrants

Answer 14

Went south
Meant immigration was a northern issue

Question 15

North emerged as a cosmopolitan society

Answer 15

Compared to agricultural or traditional south
Difference between societies becoming more pronounced