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Industrialization Changes Northern Society
This industry changed the way that many Americans worked by reducing the skill required for alot of the jobs. The trend hurts highly skilled artisans, and blacksmiths, shoemakers and tailors who could not comepete with manufacturers working with many low cost laborers. -
Embargo of 1807
The embargo and the War of 1812 ended the access to British manufactured goods. After the war of 1812, the goods kept going and went into the US, and it threatened the overwhelmed fledging American manufacturers -
Tariff of 1816
A tariff on imports designed to protect American industy.This tariff increased the price of imported manufactured goods by an average of 20 to 25 percent. This encouraged the Americans to buy products from the United States. -
Labor Unions
[www.socialstudieshelp.com/eco_unionization.htm](http://<a href='http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/eco_unionization.htm)' >www.socialstudieshelp.com/eco_unionization.htm</a>troubled workers wanted to make a political change and they wanted free public land and education and laws to limit the working day to 10 hours versus the regualar 12 that they usually have to do. The labor untions are a group of workers who get together to seek better pay and better conditions. The union went on strike to force employers to pay higher wages and to reduce hours and to improve conditions -
Immigrants arrive from Ireland and Germany
the working class was mostly all immigrats. Before 1840, immigrants consisted of mostly Protestants from England and Scotland. Around 1830 is when 600,000 immigrants arrived, during 1840 is when the number doubled, and in the late 1840's it almost doubled again. -
Ireland
mass starvation occurred in the 1840s as a result of a funguns that destoyed the potato crop. The potato had been the primary food source for the Irish poor. -
Immigrants
The number doubled because of all the immigrants coming from Ireland and Germany, both of those lands suffering from political upheavales, and ecoomic depressions and rual famines -
Catholic immigrants
Catholic immigrants faced discrimination from American-born Protestants. Protestants
