industrial revolution chapter 7. 2 parts of the industrial revolution began in gb – 1700s ...
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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