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Industrial Revolution

Chapter 7

2 Parts of the Industrial Revolution

Began in GB – 1700s Transportation

Steamboats Roads and Canals Railroads

Machinery Cotton Mills

American System

I Henry Clay 1. Tariff of 1816 – High tariffs

Pay for roads/ canals 2. infrastructure – roads and canals

Connect Atlantic states w/ Midwest National Road & Erie Canal

3. 2nd National Bank

Clay

National Road

Erie Canal

363 miles – NY State to Lake Erie NYC- greatest commercial center Watch America: The Story of US

Erie Canal

Steamboats

Robert Fulton – designed 1st comm. steamboat Clermont

Could travel upstream Read pg. 229

Railroads

1820s in the US Replaced canals Quicker, easier to move people/goods

Cheaper!!! Read pg. 230

Textile Mills

1st industry affected by IR Samuel Slater – brought the technology

to build textile mills to US Water powered mills

Textile Mill

Slater’s Mill – location?

Lowell Factory

Francis Cabot Lowell – factory system -make cloth Mass. All parts of the process in 1 building Used “Lowell Girls”

young, single girls

Lowell Girls

Eli Whitney

Inventor Interchangeable parts – identical

components that could be used in place of another

muskets Cotton gin – separated seed from cotton

More, cheaper cotton slavery Read pg. 237

Interchangeable Parts

Forrest Gump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Xw3UvKfcE

Cotton Gin

Cotton Gin – Kept Slavery Alive

Cotton is mainly grown in this area

King Cotton – slaves grow and pick raw cotton – send it to mills

King Cotton – slaves grow and pick raw cotton – send it to mills

Textile Mills mainly in this area

New England

Other Inventions

Samuel F.B. Morse – telegraph Elias Howe – sewing machine

Improved by Isaac Singer John Deere – steel plow Cyrus McCormick – mechanical reaper

Morse Telegraph

Elias Howe

Deere- Steel Plow

McCormick – mechanical reaper

Old School