Transportation and Industry USII 2b. The student will use maps, globes, photographs, pictures, and tables for b) explaining relationships among natural resources, transportation, and industrial development after 1877.
Advances in transportation linked resources, products, and markets. Transportation of resources (railroads) Moving natural resources (e.g., copper and lead) to eastern factories Moving iron ore deposits to sites of steel mills (e.g., Pittsburgh) Transporting finished products to national markets
Examples of manufacturing areas Textile industry—New England Automobile industry—Detroit Steel industry—Pittsburgh Meat packing - Chicago