After the War of 1812, the way was cleared for the United States to start down the path towards the Industrial Revolution. The end of the fighting and a more stable economy allowed for the creation of innovative ways to not only create manufactured goods, but also to move those items to locations that were never widely available to the average citizen before. As The different regions of the American continent were opened up to new settlers and trade options, and they began specializing in certain aspects of the economy, it bound the different areas together and benefited the states as a whole, causing the nation to prosper.
The successful growth of the economy of the U.S. depended heavily on several crucial events and inventions. First, reliable shipping, the most important aspect of a healthy economy, was greatly limited. Routes on the ocean were the most common because of a lack of stable roads and the scarcity of large rivers like the Mississippi, whose slow waters were much more easily traversed than swift rivers in the north that were later used to power the various factories. The Allegheny mountains were also a huge obstacle that stalled direct shipping lines. This meant that until the completion of the Erie Canal, which “link[ed] the Great Lakes with the Hudson River” (Kennedy, pg 329) in 1825, the Western territories were more or less forced to do business solely with the South because of the movement of goods up and down the Mississippi river. Shipping to and from the Northeast had a much higher cost because it had to go much further. Not only did the lack of roads limit shipment of goods, it also limited the movement of people to the West. Turnpike roads built by private investors at the beginning of the 1800s allowed...
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...ork of five men with sickles and scythes” (Kennedy, pg 328), replacing the need of slaves and allowing the West to move from subsistence farming to one of the world's greatest exporters of grain.
The invention of practical machines and new methods of growing, refining, and creating needed items allowed each of the three areas of the U.S. to reap the benefits of the Industrial Revolution. The increased availability of reliable transportation and shipping bound each area to the other in ways that hadn't been possible before. By the 1860's the U.S. had a sustainable economy that no longer relied on European or West Indies exports to survive. This triangle of commerce on a continental scale allowed the U.S. to continue to be a place for new opportunities and constant change, and encouraged further expansion within it's territories.
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