Industrialization in New England (jan 1, 1820 – jan 1, 1840)

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Cause:
- American participation in trade and production of goods to profit from
- used transportation methods
- Seaports
- Railroads
- Seaboats
- Canals

Effects:
- New industrial towns like Waltham and Lowell dotted the landscape of Northwest
- Mills provided young women opportunity to new life & relished new freedom
- increase in immigration
- new methods of transportation - easier to trade
- System of Capitalism
- New technologies
- Wages & standard of living increased

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