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| Three ingredients for economic take off |
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| Capital, resources, Labor |
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| what were two types of resources |
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energy producing resources, coal, oil
Metallic resources copper, gold, silver |
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| The significance of Labor in early America |
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| Transforms metallic ors to something useful, workers were scarce, Labor demanded a high market for the work force, |
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| what is the purpose of the Market |
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| for needy people with money, people who need and have money to buy |
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| what is the significance of the Transportation Revolution |
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| the market/ consumer to the producer |
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| what are the four eras of the Transportation Revolution |
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| Turnpike era, Canal era, Railroad era, Interstate era |
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| Lancaster Turnpike first tried roads, rt 30 philly to Lancaster, Became Lincoln Highway, weather made it difficult, tried to use logs but they rot, Scotsman named mecha, road construction is expensive, national Rd John L. McAdam, a Scottish civil engineer, who developed a process for constructing weatherproof roads—the road surface became known as macadam. |
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| b. Canal Era- Erie Canal great lakes to NY, Clintons Folly, Hudson water transportation is cheaper, dug ditches and created canals, time and transportation were cut 75%, Chesapeake Pa canal Pittsburg to Philly (mountains were in the way), 1860 over 3000 miles of canals had been dug, most in north west, |
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| steam Engines, Baltimore to Ohio had twenty miles of track, Link Producer to Consumer, transportation is the key to making it cheap, by 1860 over 10,000 miles of rail, |
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| in 1950s we go back to roads, needed a better way to move military, highway act determined that we would build highways under Eisenhower administration, made highway efficient, Integrated the market, |
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| What was job one in America |
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| came up with the idea of the steel plow |
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| what as North west agriculture |
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| Pa- Il, growing things to Eat, breeding cattle and Pigs, corn, wheat, |
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| what percent of Americans were farmers in the 1800s |
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| mowing machine to cut grain |
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| Thrashing machine used to separate grain from shaft |
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| Capital intensive agriculture |
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| no longer need everyone to farm due to machines, |
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| Yale grad, tutor on plantation in Ga, created the Cotton Gin which separated the seeds from the cotton |
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| machine intensive agriculture was located where |
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| Labor intensive agriculture was located where |
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| what is the north primary crop |
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| where were Dairy farms located |
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| Grow for a profit, tendency to consolidate, small farms cant compete so the join corporations |
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