SS S

Question 1

affected westward expansion by enabling railroads to be built in order to carry people and good to the west.

Answer 1

The Bessemer steel process

Question 2

Factors of 19ths century Irish immigrants

Answer 2

1. Growth of NE industry
2. Occurrence of the potato famine.
   3 religious’ persecution of Catholics.

Question 3

resulted in increased industrialism, American Nationalism, increased westward movement.

Answer 3

The war of 1812

Question 4

Economic Isolation of the US created by the war of 1812 contributed the most to the success

Answer 4

of Francis Lowell Massachusetts textile mill

Question 5

Industrial Revolution began in…

Answer 5

The US when war blocked British imports

Question 6

built in the 1800’s because farmers wanted to get the goods directly to markets in the EAST.

Answer 6

Canals