Manufacturing Industries of the United States.
1. Why was manufacturing neglected by the early settlers
of the United States? Page 263.
2. What manufactories sprang up in the nineteenth
century? Page 266.
3. Name the four greatest producers of manufactures for
exportation. Page 270.
4. When was the largest growth of agricultural exports
in the United States? Of exports of manufactures? Page 272.
5. What articles are the chief requisites of 418
manufacturing? Page 272.
6. How do you account for the rapid growth of copper
as an export of manufacture? Page 277.
7. Illustrate the fact that the United States does not
need to invade foreign markets with its manufactures. Page 278.
8. Distinguish between the gross value of the factory
product of manufactures and the net value of the same. Page 284.
9. Compare the growth of the exportation of manufactures
with that of the production. Page 286.
10. Under what head does the Bureau of Statistics classify
boots and shoes; flour; salted meats; illuminating
oil; pig iron. Page 287.
Concrete and Steel.