1. Industry In the North

2. Define Textiles: Cloth Items Interchangeable Parts:
Products made from pieces that are exactly the same
Mass Production:
Making large #’s of goods that are exactly the same

3. Industrial Revolution
Agriculture & roads improved:
Cities & populations grew
Traditional Manufacturing:
Factories that made everything by hand (Blacksmith, Gunsmith, Weavers)
Could not keep up with increased demands

4. Industrial Revolution
Factories use machines to produce items quicker, cheaper, and exactly the same
First Breakthrough:
Textile Factories (Very big in England)

5. Interchangeable Parts
Eli Whitney:
Introduced interchangeable parts for muskets
Easier to assemble
Easier to replace broken parts
Factories:
Copied Whitney

6. Southern Livin’

7. South Agriculture/Economy
Southerners believed:
Future of the US was in agriculture
Decline after the Revolutionary War:
1. Prices: Fell and farmers cut production
2. Demand for slaves: Less demand for workers

8. Whitney and the most evil invention ever created!!
Farmers had difficulty:
Making enough money farming crops
Short staple cotton:
Grows like a weed but difficult to remove seeds
Long staple cotton
Few seeds, but hard to grow

9. Cotton Gin Growers need: Machine to separate the seeds easily
Job of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney- Separates cotton fibers from seeds

10. Cotton Gin
Gave new life to:
Southern plantation owners and slavery

11. The Cotton Boom
By 1860:
Southern states east of the Mississippi produced 2/3 of all U.S. cotton

12. The Cotton Boom Cotton Kingdom:
Southern states from South Carolina to Texas
Cotton:
Newest Cash Crop

13. Cotton BOOM! Growing cotton required: Many field workers
Growers began using more:
Slave Labor

14. Cotton 1808: Congress makes importing slaves to the U.S. illegal.
Growing demand led to:
An increase in domestic slave trade
(Selling of slaves between plantation owners in the U.S.)