This assignment will ask you to answer important questions based on the last two lessons: The Market Revolution and “Indian Problem”. In addition, the textbook can be used to answer questions with specific examples.
Answer the following questions with details and examples:
- Why did factory owners begin to hire young, single women between the ages of 15-25? Why would mill girls seek work in the factories? Why did factory owners begin replacing mill girls with immigrants in the 1840s?
- What factors were pushing Irish and German immigrants out of their countries? What factors were pulling them to the United States?
- What kind of jobs were open to Irish and German immigrants? (Different for each one, Irish immigrants were typically poor, unskilled, and uneducated; while Germans, for the most part, were middle class, skilled, and educated).
- Are there workers today who are similarly exploited as the ones you researched for this assignment?
- What impact did northern economic expansion have on Native Americans?