HIS272H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Spoils System, Second Party System, Universal Manhood Suffrage
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Shipping by water cheaper: real breakthrough in helping build economic state comes with railroad. Cotton is one of the most important textiles (shipped out even to europe) Increase in number of banks that are popping out. Invents something that makes possible cotton industry in the south: opens door to mass production. Important in terms of helping build local communities. What changes after this era is the development of larger mill complexes, which does not focus on local, but regional or broader areas. As a result, they attract other business and once these mills start to come up, towns become major towns. Boston who decided to establish a textile mill that would focus on all types of production in one mill: by 1830, 8 mills. 3,000 employees: by 1836, 20 mills, rise of manufacturing possible b/c of transportation revolution and impact of it is how it affects labor in the both.
