Chapter+14+Reading+Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:


 * Describe the growth and movement of America’s population in the early nineteenth century.
 * Describe the largely German and Irish wave of immigration beginning in the 1830s and the reactions it provoked among native Americans. (Note: In this context, this is referring to native-born American citizens, not Native American tribes.)
 * Explain why America was relatively slow to embrace the industrial revolution and the factory.
 * Describe the early development of the factory system and Eli Whitney’s system of interchangeable parts.
 * Outline early industrialism’s effects on workers, including women and children.
 * Describe the impact of new technologies, including transportation and communication systems, on American business and agriculture.
 * Explain why the emerging industrial economy could raise the general level of prosperity, while simultaneously creating disparities of wealth between rich and poor.