Technology and Production
One short claim, two inputs
- Businesses made use of technological innovations and greater access to natural resources to dramatically increase the production of goods.
- Two inputs — innovations and access to natural resources — and one outcome, stated as dramatically.
- Made use of puts the agency with businesses: technology did not produce the increase by itself.
Select both inputs the CED names.
'Made use of' puts the agency with businesses.
Where the resources came from
- 6.2's discovery of mineral resources and the transcontinental railroads are the access the CED means.
- So western settlement is not a separate story from industrial growth; it is its supply chain.
- That connection is worth one sentence in any answer about either subtopic.
Western settlement relates to industrial growth as its...
6.2's mineral discoveries and railroads are the access meant.
Effects over time is the objective's frame
- The objective is the effects of technological advances in the development of the United States over time.
- Over time licenses reaching back to 4.5's market revolution and forward to the scale of the 1890s.
- So the answer is a trajectory: efficiency, then integration, then concentration.
An input, the outcome, or a structural consequence?
Sort each element of industrial production.
A technological answer that stops at machines misses...
New ways of raising and managing capital.
"Made use of" puts the agency with businesses. Technology and resources were inputs; a dramatic increase in the production of goods was the result of what firms did with them — and that increase is what forced the new financial and management structures of 6.6.
Put the trajectory 'over time' in order.
Reaching back to 4.5 and forward to the 1890s.
Why volume changes the structure
- A dramatic increase in output requires capital, and capital at that scale requires new ways of raising and managing it.
- 6.6's redesigned financial and management structures and trusts and holding companies are the consequence.
- So a technological answer that stops at machines has stopped one step before the effect that mattered most.
6.5 has a single Historical Development, so its material comes from its ____.
6.2, 6.6 and 6.7.
Writing a one-bullet subtopic
- 6.5 has a single Historical Development, so the material comes from its neighbours — 6.2, 6.6 and 6.7.
- State the claim, name the resource source, and follow the output increase into its structural consequences.
- Three sentences, and the connections are what make them worth reading.
A furnace that can produce ten times as much steel is useless without ore, a railway, a buyer and a way to finance the wait between them. The furnace is the easy part; the other four are the industry.
Businesses made use of technological innovations and greater access to natural resources to dramatically increase the production of goods. The resources came from 6.2's discovery of mineral resources and transcontinental railroads, so western settlement is industrial growth's supply chain; and the increase in output is what forced 6.6's redesigned financial and management structures and trusts and holding companies.