Economic Development packet

Sorry for posting this a day late... here are the reading questions for your packet.

1. How did transportation innovations affect the relationship between the different regions of the country?

2. How did immgration affect the growth of businesses like factories?

3. How did population density in the South compare to the North? Why such a dramatic difference?

4. How did the treatment of immigrants suffer as more of them entered the country?

5. In what ways was immigration a political issue?

6. In what ways were public projects like the Croton Aqueduct crucial to urban development?

7. How did technology affect every day life during the 1800s? How did it make things better?

8. In what ways would technology affect agriculture?