Civil War Tech
Factors Causing Change Political Sociological Technological
Time Line 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 Technology Slater’s Mill Steamship Portland cement Steam Locomotive Cotton Gin Gaslight Blast Furnace Telegraph Steel pen Plate glass Cotton Production 140K #s 500K 900K 1.8M Sociology Abolition Society Luddites Lowell MS Augusta GA Canal Slave Population 700K 900K 1.2M 1.6M 2M Political Constitution Lewis/Clark African Slave AL enters Union Nullification S Slave Trade Act Trade Act Tariff of 1824 War of 1812 Tariff of 1828
The Hi-Tech of the 19th century Railroads The Hi-Tech of the 19th century The General The Texas
Railroad Miles 1860
Arabia, sunk 1856, Missouri River above Kansas City Steamship Arabia, sunk 1856, Missouri River above Kansas City USS Kearsarge, 1864
Reaper Cyrus McCormick 1852
John Deere Plow
Photography Edgar Allen Poe, 1846 Abraham Lincoln, 1846 Springfield IL
Morse Telegraph- 1842 Morse Key TransAtlantic Cable-1857 Automatic Key
Singer Sewing Machine 1853
Other Inventions Spencer Microscope Anesthesia Electric Motor Steel making Process Clinical Thermometer Dynamite – 1867 Ether
Samuel Colt - 1836 Interchangeable Parts Mass Production Assembly Line Machine Tools
Factors Causing Change Political Sociological Technological
Terrain Analysis Observation & Fields of Fire Cover & Concealment Obstacles Key Terrain Avenues of Approach