1. National Growth And Development

2. Birth of Cotton Industry
First Industrial Revolution – 1700’s
Textile Mills
Fault Line = Water Power
Displaced Cottage Industry
Cotton
Southern Climate = Cotton Production
Costly Production
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin
One person could do the work of 50
Increased profitability of slavery
Allowed expansion of plantation system
Production and price of cotton soared

3. Modernization of Farming
Preemption Act of 1830
Farmers could move west faster then survey teams
Quickly developed western farming land
Steel Plow
Increased Production
John Deere – Interchangeable parts
Mechanical Seeders
Mechanical Reaper
Cyrus McCormick
Do the work of 12 men

4. New Technology Canals and Railroads Samuel FB Morse Charles Goodyear
National Rail Road
Northeast
Erie Canal
New York City to Lake Erie to New Orleans
Samuel FB Morse
Telegraph
Revolutionized Communications
Charles Goodyear
Patented vulcanized rubber
Elias Howe
Sewing Machine

5. The Lowell System
Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo of 1807 increased Amerian Manufacturing
Samuel Slater
Steam Engine Secrets
Textile Boom in Northeast
Increased Cotton Production
The Lowell System
Francis Cabot Lowell
Lowell Massachusetts
Factory = First to Spin and Weave Cotton
Mostly Young Women Workers

6. Continue Women Workers Harsh Working Conditions Good Dexterity
Work for lower Wages
From Farm Families/Communities
Help for
Escape from
Founded thriving Society
Harsh Working Conditions
13 hours a day/6 Days a week
Working Conditions dangerous and unhealthy
Over Charged for Dorm Rooms and Boarding
Strict Rules
Constant Cut in Wages and increase in Boarding

7. Mormonism Founded by Joseph Smith Beliefs Vision from God and Jesus
Lost Testament of Bible = Book of Mormon
Smith Translated Golden Tablets into English using “seeing” Stones
Only Person to actually see tablets
Beliefs
Native Americans = Lost Tribe of Israel
Color of Native America Skin = Punishment
Jesus Second Coming Happened in US
Leader of Church = Prophets who communicates with God
Polygamy (originally, not today)

8. Continue Smith Brigham Young Founded Church in 1830
Persecuted for beliefs
Founded Nauvoo Ill in 1839
Killed by mob on June 27, 1844
Brigham Young
Successor to Smith
Moved Mormons to Great Salt Lake in Utah (part of Mexico)
Escape persecution
Made the Desert Bloom
Utah Became territory in 1847