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Election of 1836
• A new political party appears – Whigs• Whigs run three candidates in hope the vote
will have to go to the House• Plan backfires• Martin Van Buren wins
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Election of 1840
• Van Buran vs. William Henry Harrison• Harrison wins and gives long speech• Dies from pneumonia just 4 weeks after taking
office• John Tyler is now president
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• Whig party turn from him• All his cabinet resigns
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Election of 1844
• James K Polk is elected for the Whigs
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Changing American Life
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TRANSPORTATION
• Need roads to go west• Wilderness Road– Daniel Boone helped
with this road– First federally funded
highway
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• Travel by water was difficult• Steamboat was invented– Robert Fulton
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• Use of canals• Canal – shallow, manmade water highway that
connects two bodies of water• Erie Canal was most famous
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• Railroads– Peter Cooper did
first major trial of railroad
– Better travel than the canals
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COMMUNICATION
• Telegraph– Samuel F. B. Morse invented it– Came about because of a need from the railroads– Used during the Mexican War
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INDUSTRY
• Industrial Revolution– Happened in the North first
• Factory System– Collect many workers in one place and turn out
many similar items in one day– Britain forbade anyone with knowledge of
factories to leave Britain.
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• Samuel Slater– Left England to come to US with knowledge
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• Elias Howe and Isaac Singer– Created sewing machine
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Singer
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Eli Whitney
• Created interchangeable parts for his gun production
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AGRICULTURE
• New equipment enabled the farmer to improve methods and lower costs
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• John Deere– Created the steel
plow
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• Cyrus McCormick– Created the reaper,
which cut and harvested grain
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• Eli Whitney– Created cotton gin which cleaned cotton quickly
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