Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Post-war
Transportation/Industry
- Tranportation
- Roads, Bridges, Toll roads, State funded
roads
- Canals
- Steamboats
- Railroads
- EFFECTS
- stimulation of
trade
- Explosion of traffic
- Shift in trade
patterns
- Old NW territory identifies with
North
- EFFECTS ON INDUSTRY
- Shift of labor force towards transportation and manufacturing
- Beginnings of labor organizations and unions
- Marked sharpening of sectional differences
- Industry
- SOLUTIONS
- Locate manufacturing centers near
water
- invention replaces
skill
- put all parts of production under one
roof
- Use wood for buildings and machinery as much as possible
- OBSTACLES
- Prejudice against
manufactures
- British brand
loyalty
- poor
transportation
- Skilled labor
shortage
- Chronic shortage of
Capital
- Technological
Backwardness