US+History+Industrialization+&+Westward+Expansion

Questions to consider:
 * Was the Lowell "experiment" positive or negative for the Women's Movement? Why or why not?
 * What caused the expansion of agriculture, industry and transportation in the early decades of the 19th century?
 * In what ways did European immigration to the US in the mid 19th century change the US economically, politically, and culturally/socially?
 * How was the issue of growth connected to: slavery, politics, settlement patterns, Native Americans and "new technology"?
 * Assess the positive and negative impacts of Manifest Destiny.