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1 America’s Coming of Age: Era of Growth & Invention

2 Almost everyone farms a little bit Everything is handmade & unique
Status Quo: Cottage industry & Almost everyone farms a little bit and Everything is handmade & unique

3 Factories develop in New England and change life there.

4 X X Industrial Revolution: Machines replace hand tools &
Manufacturing replaces farming X

5 People and machines work under one roof at a “job”
Factories: People and machines work under one roof at a “job” & have a boss

6 used to power machinery before electricity
Water wheels: used to power machinery before electricity

7 Factories Need: Flowing rivers Access to ocean shipping
Workers who’d rather not farm … So develop in New England

8 Samuel Slater: Inventor of 1st US factory Hired children

9 Lowell: Inventor of 1st US factory town Hired young girls off the farm
Gave them high wages (sent $ home) Girls lived in dorms Mandatory church, lectures, clubs, etc

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11 Machines can be used to make parts
Interchangeable Parts: Unskilled workers can make parts & if something breaks, you can fix it easily Machines can be used to make parts Need “supervisors”

12 Inventions help people be more productive and communicate easier, & grows the South and West.

13 Clermont could go 300 miles in 62 hrs
Steamboat travel: Make rivers more useful Clermont could go 300 miles in 62 hrs Increase in speed that news & goods spread

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15 Canal Craze: Cut through land to connect rivers
Makes steamboats more useful Erie Canal – 360 miles long in NY – connect NY to Chicago

16 Telegraph: First electronic message News can spread quicker

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18 John Deere Plow: Lightweight; Midwest soil won’t clog Farm more acres

19 Cotton Gin: Clean 1 lb a day by hand vs 50 lbs per day with the gin
Huge growth in cotton production Need for slave labor & movement West

20 Railroad: Can replace canals Eminent domain used to get land
Little standardization; dangerous travel 30 year boom

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