8.12.1

Trace patterns of agricultural and industrial development as they relate to climate, use of natural resources, markets, and trade and locate such development on a map.
            Agricultural areas existed in climates suitable for crops. Transportation between farms or agriculture and industry was possible due to the railroad and many roads. Industry grew up around the areas that offered abundant resources, which would allow easy production of products from those resources. Loopholes developed by industrialists were to situate the industry near the consumers to allow easy selling and in turn companies would not have to pay middlemen such as shippers, this increased profit. Agriculture and industrialization rapidly changed due to the Industrial Revolution. Agriculture shifted to the Midwest, in the South machinery took over the hands that worked in the fields and in the north machines took over factories leaving the employed unemployed. Workers dropped from 75% of the US population to 40%. Due to the Industrial Revolution era, Pittsburgh grew famous for their steel manufacturing because of their underground resources and the entrepreneurs that found new ways to manufacture steel. Oil was produced in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and New York City. Industrialization was held from Maryland to New England. The south continued to grow cotton and other agricultural crops. Wheat is found mainly in the great plains of the Midwest where the next generation farmers settled.


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