1. Early Industrialization in America Immigration

2. Resourcefulness & Experimentation
Americans were willing to try anything.
They were first copiers, then innovators.
1800  41 patents were approved.
1860  4,357 “ “ “

3. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1791 Actually invented by a slave!

4. Eli Whitney’s Gun Factory Interchangeable Parts Rifle

5. First prototype of the locomotive
Oliver Evans
First automated flour mill
First prototype of the locomotive

6. Cyrus McCormick & the Mechanical Reaper: 1831

7. Cyrus McCormick & the Mechanical Reaper: 1831

8. Samuel F. B. Morse
1840 – Telegraph

9. Cyrus Field & the Transatlantic Cable, 1858

10. Elias Howe & Isaac Singer
1840s Sewing Machine

11. The Northern
Industrial
"Juggernaut"

12. Samuel Slater (“Father of the Factory System”)

13. The Lowell/Waltham System: First Dual-Purpose Textile Plant
Francis Cabot Lowell’s town

14. Lowell in 1850

15. Lowell Mill

16. Early Textile Mill Loom Floor

17. Early Textile Loom

18. New England Textile Centers: 1830s

19. New England Dominance in Textiles

20. Lowell Boarding Houses What was boardinghouse life like?

21. Irish Immigrant Girls at Lowell

22. American Population Centers in 1820

23. American Population Centers in 1860

24. National Origin of Immigrants: 1820 - 1860
Why now?

25. “The Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner”
Know-Nothing Party:
“The Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner”

26. Changing Occupation Distributions: 1820 - 1860

27. Industrialization and Immigration in America early 1800’s
What conclusion can you make about what is happening in American, immigration, growing population?