Explain The Contribution Of Eric Foner's Contribution To The Growth Of National Chains

Moreover, the document also helps visualize the linking of the regions in which national markets emerged, as well urbanization and industry expansion. To extend on this idea, immigration grew alongside industry expansion. For more land became accessible for sale, which was an advantage to those whom jobs (like those building railroads or working in companies near them) called for them to live near. Although the most convenient way to transport goods was using the railroad, it also worsened the economic hardship that farmers had, for the prices that they had to pay to export their goods, were quite elevated.

They had some economic growth in farming and manufacturing the cities attracted large numbers of immigrants. This increased the labor force. The northern Midwest became the centers of industry.

     High prices forced farmers to concentrate on one crop. The large-scale farmers bought expensive machines, increasing their crop yield. This caused the smaller farmers to be left behind. The small farmers could no longer compete and were forced give up their farms and look for jobs in the cities. The smaller farmers

Technology greatly transformed American agriculture from just plain farming to commercial farming. The mechanization of farming made farming easier and more profitable. As shown in Document D technology was helping farmers, making farming more easier and they were able to do many jobs quicker. But, Farmers couldn’t afford to send crops to other places At the beginning of the 1840s the railroad began to transform American agriculture, by the 1860’s all states east of the Mississippi had rail service. As shown in Document B there were multiple railroads all around the country. The farmers were ecstatic about this new technology because they could send their crops to other areas, when before they didn’t have the money to be able to do so. Other new technologies were arriving such as the mechanical reaper and the steel plow.

Without the development of cities and industries there would not be a trade industry which would allow the farmers to trade and prosper. With no trade, farmers would not be able to market their surplus and the surplus in the American economy would cause prices to fall. This situation would produce little profit for farmers and eventually a severe recession economy.

New technologies improved agricultural and industrial productivity. Growing cities provided markets and workers for industrial businesses. Products were allowed to reach distant markets because of improved railroad

2. Opening of new agricultural lands (West) - more and more land offered to people, land needed to be develop. Farmer could maintain more land than before because of

peasants left for the towns, the towns grew larger. This brought a new social class to

The outcome of this farming change was higher access of food. The enclosure Movement also forced people into Industrial Revolution for example; farmers who worked in the farming industry where replaced by farming machines and where left homeless forced to find new jobs in the industrial revolution. Big business was also a change that created Mass Production. Mass Production shifted people from production at home, to production in large factories in cities. Mass production also allowed for lower prices on the good produced.

More roads were constructed to allow people to travel further, like Route 66 that went from California to Chicago. A lot of jobs were created, like gas stations, state police, fast food joints and repair shops. People could move out of the cities and live in the country. And people that already lived in the country could go to the cities.

nation. Through development of industry, the United States was able to grow as a manufacturing

With the technology advancing, the production of material moved from small shops and homes into large factories for mass-production. This included steel industries that allowed the transfer of “…manufacturing plants away from naturally flowing waters (outside the city) to areas inside and around the cities where more abundant labor was available”.

addressing the economic problems that plagued the country as it began to move away from an agrarian society to a modernized society with large numbers of people leaving the farm and moving to the cities for work.

Cities grew dramatically during this time because of immigration and industrialization. The number of cities with populations over 100,000 went from 9 to 38. Due to advancements in agriculture the farms required less man power. Therefore, some of these man and their families moved to the urban areas. The same thing happened to the women hand making clothes or other households items. Factories began to take over the making of these goods on a much larger scale. This forced the women to move to the cities in order to find work. When the got to the cities they found jobs and clerks, servants and laborers.

After World War II, more people in the United States began living in cities. Although inevitable, urbanization has had negative impacts in the United States, specifically on agriculture and the environment. Increase in urbanization has caused the gap between farmers and consumers to grow exponentially. Less people are working on farms, and because the population is always increasing, more people are in need of food. This higher demand for food in cities requires farm production to increase and be shipped for distribution.