homework, due 3/25

Read pages 274-288, answer questions. Also use your examination of the primary sources from class to help answer the sections on labor.
Due on 3/25/09

# What influence did technology have on the growth of American industry?
# What forces contributed to the rise of the factory in the Northeast? How did this promote industrial development?
# What role did American inventors and industrial ingenuity play in the growth of American industry?
# How did the textile mills recruit and use labor? What was the general response to the Lowell method, by worker and by observer?
# What caused the breakdown of the Lowell [or Waltham] system?
# What was the "lot of working women" in Lowell and other factory towns? How did this differ from conditions in Europe?
# What problems did the "Lowell girls" have in adjusting to factory and factory-town life?
# With the growth of industry came the growth of labor, but how did the rise of American labor organizations differ from the usual patterns of union growth? What groups organized first, and why?
# What was the "factory system?" What impact did it have on the American artisan tradition?
# What was the general condition of workers in northeastern factories?
# What attempts were made to better conditions in northeastern factories? What role did unions play in these attempts? What was accomplished?