1. Early Industry and Inventions
Objective: Explain how each development of the early 1800s affected the nation

2. Textile Mills Led to growth of factory towns
Increased wealth of New England region
allowed young women to earn high wages
Increased demand for cotton – led slavery to expand

3. Interchangeable parts
Speeded up production
Made repairs easy
Allowed use of lower-paid, less-skilled workers
Required new management style with close supervision

4. Steamboat Allowed people and goods to travel faster
Increased trade on the Mississippi and growth of cities on the river

5. Telegraph
Allowed people to communicate across the country in seconds

6. Steel plow Made Midwestern soil easier to prepare for planting
Encouraged more farmers to move to the Midwest

7. Mechanical Reaper and Threshing Machine
Improved farming
Enabled farmers to grow more food and feed Northeastern factory workers

8. Cotton Gin Made cotton-cleaning process far more efficient
Planters grew cotton instead of other crops
Slaves were sold south and west to new cotton plantations

9. Activity
Create a chart to show what each person built or promoted that helped the nation grow:
Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
Samuel F. B. Morse
John Deere

10. Summary What was one effect of the steamboat?
How did interchangeable parts transform the manufacturing process?
How were different US regions linked economically?
Why did slavery spread in the south?