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Mr. King Central Cabarrus HS
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Chapter 7 Section 1
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Changes in Manufacturing p 1793 Eli Whitney invents cotton gin p 1801 Eli Whitney pioneers use of interchangeable parts - identical pieces used to used to assemble products p Factory system: power driven machinery; workers with different tasks p Mass production is production of goods in large quantities p Industrial Revolution: social and economic reorganization - The Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812 forced the United States to invest in domestic industries United States to invest in domestic industries - machines replace hand tools - leads to large scale factory production
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Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1793 Actually invented by a slave!
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Eli Whitney’s Gun Factory Interchangeable Parts Rifle
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Oliver Evans First prototype of the locomotive First automated flour mill
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John Deere & the Steel Plow (1837)
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Cyrus McCormick & the Mechanical Reaper: 1831
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Samuel F. B. Morse 1840 – Telegraph
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Cyrus Field & the Transatlantic Cable, 1858
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Charles Goodyear Vulcanized Rubber Year: 1839 Made working with rubber easier (sticking when hot and hard when cold) Removed sulfur and then heated so it would retained its elasticity
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Elias Howe & Isaac Singer 1840s Sewing Machine
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New England Industrializes p Samuel Slater builds first thread factory in Pawtucket, RI (1793) p Lowell, Appleton, and Jackson mechanize all phases of cloth making (1813) - built weaving factories in Waltham, MA and Lowell, MA - thousands, mostly young women, leave family farms to work in factories - Lowell becomes booming manufacturing center
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Samuel Slater (“Father of the Factory System”)
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The Lowell/Waltham System: First Dual-Purpose Textile Plant Francis Cabot Lowell’s town - 1814
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Lowell in 1850
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New England Textile Centers: 1830s
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New England Dominance in Textiles
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American Population Centers in 1820
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American Population Centers in 1860
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National Origin of Immigrants: 1820 - 1860 Why now?
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Regional Specialization EAST Industrial SOUTH Cotton & Slavery WEST The Nation’s “Breadbasket”
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Two Economic Systems Develop p Cash crops do not grow well in the North and farms are much smaller than in the South p Northern slavery dying out by late 1700s p Cotton becomes king in the South (due to Eli Whitney) p Great demand for cotton in Europe p Slavery becomes entrenched p Plantation system established in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and much of the South
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Uniting the Nation’s Economic Interests p House Speaker Henry Clay proposes plan as the American System - North produces manufactured goods - South and West produce food and cotton - National currency and bank facilitate trade - National currency and bank facilitate trade - Tariff protects American goods - America improves its transportation system
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1790 First Turnpike: Lancaster, PA By 1832, nearly 2400 mi. of road connected most major cities.
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1811: The National Road
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Erie Canal System
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Robert Fulton & the Steamboat 1807: The Clermont
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The “Iron Horse” Wins! (1830) 1830 13 miles of track built by Baltimore & Ohio RR By 1850 9000 mi. of RR track [1860 31,000 mi.]
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The Railroad Revolution, 1850s p Immigrant labor built the No. RRs. p Slave labor built the So. RRs.
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Chapter 7 Section 2
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Strengthening Government Economic Control p Gibbons v. Ogden: Federal government controls interstate commerce - Ogden felt that only he had the right to run a steamboat on the Hudson River - Ogden felt that only he had the right to run a steamboat on the Hudson River p McCulloch v. Maryland: States cannot overturn laws passed by Congress - Maryland taxes local branch of Bank of U.S. - John Marshall declares this unconstitutional: “The power to tax is the power to destroy”
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Nationalism Pushes America West US Population 1800 US Population 1820
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Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy p Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, guided by nationalism - makes treaties on Great Lakes, borders, and territories (49 th parallel established by Convention of 1818)
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Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy p Spain gives up Florida and claims to Oregon Territory in Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819
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Nationalism Shapes Foreign Policy p Monroe Doctrine (1823) warns Europe not to interfere in the Americas - U.S. will not interfere in Europe
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Nationalism Pushes America West p Missouri Compromise - When a territory’s population reaches 60,000, the area may apply for statehood - A compromise was reached to preserve the balance between free and slave states - Maine admitted to Union as a free state, Missouri came in as a slave state - Louisiana Territory divided at 36 o 30’ line - Slavery legal south of this line
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Nationalism Pushes America West The Compromise of 1820:
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