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. 2 nd 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  1 st 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

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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 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

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