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Question

What cities became popular during or because of the Industrial Revolution? Why did that city become highly populated during the Industrial Revolution, what types of factories were there and what did they produce, and why was the city convenient for factory owners?

The city has to be an american one.

I have searched and searched trying to find answers for these questions and i cant. So can you please help. Can you find me websites that talk about one specific city in the industrial revolution that answers those questions. PLEASE.

thanks so much!

Answer 1

Chicago would be my obvious choice. Its population grew enormously in the decades following the Great Fire of 1871.

Factories: All sorts in Chicago, especially meat-packing and steel.

Convenient: Chicago is centrally located in the US. It was a major rail hub and on Lake Michigan.

Many links of Chicago history:
http://www.roosevelt.edu/chicagohistory/resources.htm
http://cpl.lib.uic.edu/004chicago/chihist.html

Here are a huge number of links on the Industrial Revolution:
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Industrial.html

Answer 2

Cities gained in population because workers were attracted to the jobs at the mills -- textile mills at first, and then factories of all kinds.

Booth Tarkington's novel The Magnificent Ambersons is set in Indianapolis at the time automobile manufacturing started there, and it would make a good case study, if you are willing to do some research.

Answer 3

Pittsburgh is one of those cities. It was once full of steel mills. They produced all different types of steel for the entire world. The city is convenient for the factory owners because it enables a lot of workers to be concentrated in a close proximity. Chicago was associated with cattle yards and slaughtering cattle, and meat packing plants. Cincinnati was once called " porkopolis " because of all the pig yards and pig slaughter houses that were there. It is also the home of Procter and Gamble ( Tide,etc), they started making the bars of Ivory Soap there, it was made from rendered pig fat. Hope that this helps in some small way.

Answer 4

Start with textile (cloth) mills in Lowell, MA.

Then look into the steel mills of Pittsburgh, PA.

Lowell never got very large, even for its day, but it was one of the early locations of industrial development in the US.

Pittsburgh grew in part through immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe.

Chicago and Detroit are cities that grew with later industrialization - in the 20th century, especially. In Chicago, it was farm commodities and transportation, and in Detroit it was cars. Both cities grew a lot with migration of African Americans from the South in the early decades of the last century.

Answer 5

Maybe the best example is Lowell Massachusetts

The site of Lowell, the confluence of the Merrimack and Concord rivers, was a rendezvous point for the Pennacook Indians in pre-Columbian times. In the 17th century before King Phillip's War, the Christian Indian village of Wamesit occupied the site, and was part of East Chelmsford, which was settled in 1655.

Lowell was a planned city; its site was chosen for the water power made available by the rapid descent of its rivers, as shown by the presence of Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack and the Wamesit Falls on the Concord River. It was officially incorporated as a town in 1826, and became a city in 1836, named after Francis Cabot Lowell. A member of two prominent Massachusetts families, Francis Cabot Lowell traveled to Manchester, England to study its mill system for possible reproduction back home. He was forbidden to make any sketches of the looms in use, so it is believed that he resorted to memorizing their construction. By the 1850s, Lowell was the second largest city in New England, with nearly six miles of canals - the largest power canal system in the world - running her factories. It is considered by many to be the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

Nineteenth century Lowell was an important center for the textile industry, in particular an important source for cotton cloth. Its textile mills, which line the Merrimack River, were the largest, most modern mills of their time. Lowell was one of the first industrial towns to employ women, in what became known as the Lowell system. Women from agricultural communities throughout the region would take jobs in the mills of Lowell for one, two, or more years, then move on to marriage, return to their family farms, or emigrate west to the frontier. The women of Lowell's mills were innovators not only in their roles as industrial workers, but as labor organizers.

As an important industrial town, Lowell soon became a magnet for immigration. Lowell's population swelled rapidly with a flood of immigrants from Canada, particularly Quebec and New Brunswick, from Northern England, Ireland, and later from Poland, Greece, and other parts of central and eastern Europe. This ethnic diversity lent to Lowell a unique cultural identity.

Answer 6

As in Britain, the United States originally used water power to run its factories, with the consequence that industrialisation was essentially limited to New England and the rest of the Northeastern United States, where fast-moving rivers were located. However, the raw materials (cotton) came from the Southern United States. It was not until after the American Civil War in the 1860s that steam-powered manufacturing overtook water-powered manufacturing, allowing the industry to fully spread across the nation.

Samuel Slater (1768 – 1835) is popularly known as the founder of the American cotton industry. As a boy apprentice in Derbyshire, England he learnt of the new techniques in the textile industry and defied laws against the emigration of skilled workers by leaving for New York in 1789, hoping to make money with his knowledge. Slater started Slater's mill at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1793 and went on to own thirteen textile mills.[20]

American Francis Cabot Lowell of The Boston Associates went to England in 1810. While there, he memorized the design of textile machines, and on his return to the United States, he set up the Boston Manufacturing Company. Lowell and his partners built America's first cotton-to-cloth textile mill at Waltham, Massachusetts. After his death in 1817, his Associates built America's first planned factory town, which they named after him. Lowell, Massachusetts, utilizing 5.6 miles of canals and the power of the Merrimack River, is considered the 'Cradle of the American Industrial Revolution.' The short-lived utopia-like Lowell System was formed, as a direct response to the poor working conditions in Britain.

Answer 7

East St. Louis Illinois. Because it is on the Mississippi River, had land, and could get cheap labor, many meat packing plants like Armour came into the area. It brought jobs and created the city. Many of the Blacks in Mississippi came up as cheap labor in search of jobs. They relocated to towns like Brooklyn, Venice, and Alorton. Now that the industry is gone, so are the jobs.

Answer 8

Two that come to mind are Pittsburg, PA and Birmingham, AL. Both cities had extensive steel mills. Both are located near ready sources of fuel (coal), and raw materials (iron ore).

Answer 9

you say you did research well if you did you would have found it. why don't you try making your own homework for once?