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Resourcefulness & Experimentation p Americans were willing to try anything. p They were first copiers, then innovators. 1800 41 patents were approved. 1860 4,357 “ “ “
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Robert Fulton Invention: Steamboat (steam engine) Impact: doubles miles of river use, increases need for canals, adds momentum to industrialization and American System – p. 219 Robert Fulton Invention: Steamboat (steam engine) Impact: doubles miles of river use, increases need for canals, adds momentum to industrialization and American System – p. 219
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Samuel Slater Invention: “Slater’s Mills” are first Large scale textile mills. P. 214-15 Impact: This “factory system” helped To ignite the “Market Revolution” Samuel Slater Invention: “Slater’s Mills” are first Large scale textile mills. P. 214-15 Impact: This “factory system” helped To ignite the “Market Revolution”
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Eli Whitney Invention(s): cotton gin Aand interchangeable parts – p. 216 Impact: increased the need for slave labor, leading cotton to become “King” in the South. Also helped to establish the “factory system” and encourage the “Market Revolution.” Eli Whitney Invention(s): cotton gin Aand interchangeable parts – p. 216 Impact: increased the need for slave labor, leading cotton to become “King” in the South. Also helped to establish the “factory system” and encourage the “Market Revolution.”
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Eli Whitney’s Gun Factory Interchangeable Parts Rifle
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Samuel F. B. Morse Invention: telegraph – p. 274 Impact: started a communication network that would unite the country. Encouraged unity between regions (North, South, and especially West!) Samuel F. B. Morse Invention: telegraph – p. 274 Impact: started a communication network that would unite the country. Encouraged unity between regions (North, South, and especially West!)
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Cyrus McCormick Invention: mechanical reaper Impact: - started the large scale industrial farms, increased crop production Cyrus McCormick Invention: mechanical reaper Impact: - started the large scale industrial farms, increased crop production
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John Deere Invention: - Steel plow Impact: among the many agricultural Inventions that helped settlers succeed In the West. John Deere Invention: - Steel plow Impact: among the many agricultural Inventions that helped settlers succeed In the West.
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Factory System First factories were: - Slater and Lowell Mills, textile mills in the Northeast Impact: - brought women (young, unmarried spinsters) into the workplace, low wages and poor conditions also led to first labor organizations (labor unions) - Created urbanization Factory System First factories were: - Slater and Lowell Mills, textile mills in the Northeast Impact: - brought women (young, unmarried spinsters) into the workplace, low wages and poor conditions also led to first labor organizations (labor unions) - Created urbanization
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Erie Canal Impact: - connected Midwest With Eastern markets Chicago, Great Lakes, Hudson River to NYC Erie Canal Impact: - connected Midwest With Eastern markets Chicago, Great Lakes, Hudson River to NYC
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Distribution of Wealth v During the American Revolution, 45% of all wealth in the top 10% of the population. v 1845 Boston top 4% owned over 65% of the wealth. v 1860 Philadelphia top 1% owned over 50% of the wealth. v The gap between rich and poor was widening!
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Regional Specialization EAST Industrial SOUTH Cotton & Slavery WEST The Nation’s “Breadbasket”
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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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Know- Nothing Party: “The Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner” Know- Nothing Party: “The Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner”
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Henry Clay’s American System Northern EconomySouthern Economy American System Plan to unify the nation & the differing economies of the North & South North would manufacture the goods for the South & West South & West produce grain, wheat, meat & cotton for North Lead to economic independence…??
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Henry Clay’s American System 3 Major Parts: 1.Transportation systems National Road from Maryland to Illinois Erie Canal linked Atlantic Ocean to Great Lakes
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Henry Clay’s American System 3 Major Parts: 2.Protective tariff British goods much cheaper than American goods due to a surplus Made British goods just as expensive (helps North, hurts South)
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Henry Clay’s American System 3 Major Parts: 2.Second Bank of the United States Currency that would be accepted nationwide (promote interstate trade)
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