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1 EPCOT Is Here! Industrialization and Innovation

2 City of Tomorrow

3 Industrialization Trying to use power of machinery rather than humans or animals Began with textile industry in Britain Spinning Jenny and Steam

4 Chug A Lug

5 U.S. Textiles Samuel Slater brought design to U.S. in 1789. 1790 built a shop in Rhode Island First successful water- powered mill in 1793

6 Water Wheel Mill

7 Interchangeable Parts Eli Whitney: cotton gin and gunsmith 1798: said he would make 10,000 guns in a little over two years Made interchangeable parts

8 The Model

9 Cotton Gin Separates seeds from cotton fibers Could clean 1,000 pounds of cotton per day Patent placed on in 1794

10 Cotton Gin

11 Transportation Roads heavily used Would use logs over swampy ground Called “corduroy roads” Plank roads also used

12 Roll On!

13 River Travel Hand-powered keelboats and flatboats Sailing ships carry crops to Atlantic Ports Robert Fulton made steam boat: Clermont

14 Fun Fun!

15 Canals Artificial waterways 1840: 3,000 miles of canals Erie Canal: opened 1825 363 miles long Linked New York City to Great Lakes

16 Open Sesame

17 Railroads Pulled more goods and people quicker than canal boats 1828: first American railroad: B&O Railroad Baltimore and Ohio.

18 Oops!

19 Communication Rise in post offices 1790:75 to 1830: 8,450 Long distance mail 500 plus newspapers published daily

20 Ride On!

21 Expanding Economy Market Revolution Manufacturing: use of machinery to make products Bought raw materials and turned them into profit

22 This Does Compute

23 Manufacturing Began in New England Francis Cabot Lowell: built first centralized factory Centralized factory: all stages of making a product occur

24 Factory Made

25 Manufacturing 2 1817: 4 million yards of cotton cloth 1840: 323 million yards of cotton cloth Manufacturing moved across to the Ohio River Valley

26 Move It On

27 Dual Sphere Ideology People worked in their homes at the beginning Factories and manufacturing changed this People now went to work Specialization also used

28 This Is My Own Job

29 Banking Group of investors gain charter from state. Loans used money people deposited in bank for safe keeping

30 Mr. Muggles

31 Banking 2 Investment capital: money a business spends with hope to gain in the future Loans caused disasters Bank notes given much like checks

32 Yep, I do


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