Transportation

How did advances in transportation link resources, products and markets?

• Remember the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Well, there is a little bit more to it than that….

What else is there?• The resources needed for the

factories were things like iron ore from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Copper & lead were mined in New Mexico Arizona and Utah.

• It would be very expensive to try to take this things to the factories by wagon it wasn’t worth the price or trouble.

• With the advances in transportation, like the railroad, these materials could be transported easy, cheaper and in greater quantity.

Wait, there’s more…

• Sometimes resources were moved with ships, especially in the Great Lakes area.

• Did you ever wonder why so many big cities were near waterways?

Still More

• Once the resources got to the factories they were used to provide energy for the factory or make goods for the factory to sell.

• The more resources a factory had the more goods or products they could sell.

Manufacturing Areas

• A manufacturing area is exactly what it says, an area where there is manufacturing.

• What is manufacturing?

Examples of Manufacturing Areas

• Detroit Manufactured Automobiles

• Pittsburgh Manufactured Steel

• New England Manufactured Textiles

Centers of Population

• Manufacturing areas were clustered near centers of population.

• What does clustered mean?

• What does center of population mean?

• Why is the statement true?