1. Thursday, January 7th, 2010.
Agenda U.S. History
BR: Where do you get the things you use everyday? (clothes, shoes, food, etc.)
Notes

2. Changes in a Young Nation: Did changes in the young nation open the door to opportunity for all Americans?
Economic Changes

3. Industrialization Making goods by hand  making goods with machines
Making money by farming  making money from industry or business

4. New Inventions Make Production More Efficient
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin
Removes seeds from cotton by machine
Machine clean 50 lbs. = man clean 1 lb.
Made cotton leading cash crop in nation
Revolutionized slavery
Slavery expected to die out  cotton gin ↑demand for slave labor
Interchangeable Parts
All parts on every musket identical
Makes manufacturing faster  mass production
Making goods on large scale in factories
In 1830’s new machine increased productivity

5. Eli Whitney : Cotton Gin

6. The Factory System Changes How People Work
Textile mills used young girls from farms to work in factories
Made large amounts of goods at fast pace
Traditional economy (people make things for themselves) Market Economy (people buy the things they need)
+/- effects
Living standards ↑, more things to choose from when shopping
Factory workers unsafe, unhealthy, work for low wages

7. Textile Mill

8. Canals, Roads, & Rails: Connecting the Country
Growth of Market economy sparked transportation revolution
All weather-roads with hard surfaces
National Road: MD  MS
Steam-powered riverboat: travel upstream
Canals: extended H2O to new places
Erie Canal: Hudson River  Lake Erie
Possible to go from Atlantic to Midwest w/o leaving boat
Railroads: worked all year long

9. The First Steamboat