How Did The Civil War Affect The Economy
Another thing that was improved upon in the Industrial Revolution was communication throughout the country. One reason for the need for better communication was the ever-expanding railway in the United States. The railroad traveled long distances through the United States’ terrain and was in need of better communication so that train schedules and shipments could stay on time. Samuel B. Morse was the American inventor of the telegraph, a machine that could send a message of electrical signals along a cable that could be decoded to form letters and words. Telegraph cable had begun to be strung up across America, usually running parallel to railroad tracks. With telegraph cables all over the country, Americans were able to send messages and
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Historians have different opinions on how the Civil War impacted the nation’s industrialization: positively or negatively. During the war, manufacturing increased greatly and the number of factories in the North doubled. However, men were also being shipped off to both armies to fight, leaving empty spaces in the factories, which historians believe hurt industrialization. The demand for weapons and supplies during the Civil War was high and caused both the Union and the Confederacy to increase their factory production. However, the Southern region of the United States was used most often for farming and lacked the proper amount factories to produce the firearms and other needed supplies, which resulted in the North gaining the advantage in the production aspect of the war. One effect of the industrial revolution making its way over to America was the abundance of opportunities that came with it. Americans and immigrants flooded into the cities looking for work, women and children were offered jobs that had never been available to them before, and the United States economy flourished under everyone’s ambition for a better and more industrialized life. In contrast to the success the heavy populations brought to America as a whole, many individual families competing against each other in the northern cities for work suffered during this time
Historians have different opinions on how the Civil War impacted the nation’s industrialization: positively or negatively. During the war, manufacturing increased greatly and the number of factories in the North doubled. However, men were also being shipped off to both armies to fight, leaving empty spaces in the factories, which historians believe hurt industrialization. The demand for weapons and supplies during the Civil War was high and caused both the Union and the Confederacy to increase their factory production. However, the Southern region of the United States was used most often for farming and lacked the proper amount factories to produce the firearms and other needed supplies, which resulted in the North gaining the advantage in the production aspect of the war. One effect of the industrial revolution making its way over to America was the abundance of opportunities that came with it. Americans and immigrants flooded into the cities looking for work, women and children were offered jobs that had never been available to them before, and the United States economy flourished under everyone’s ambition for a better and more industrialized life. In contrast to the success the heavy populations brought to America as a whole, many individual families competing against each other in the northern cities for work suffered during this time