1. Roots of Industrial Revolution extend far into the past

3. Outwork System

4. Outwork System led to less mixed crop agriculture and more livestock raising, reducing self-sufficiency of farms

5. New merchant or business class develops

6. New merchant class increasingly views alcohol consumption as something negative

7. Increasing use of wage-based domestic servants among new merchant class

9. Merchants began to coordinate efforts to promote business districts with new Chambers of Commerce

10. Callithumpians

11. Samuel Slater

12. Slater’s textile mill and spinning machine copied from England

13. Francis Cabot Lowell

14. Waltham Plan

16. Large scale blast furnaces

18. Cyrus McCormick and his Reaper

19. Robert Fulton and his steamboat “Clermont”

20. Samuel Colt and his Revolver

21. Remington rifles, Yale locks, and watches invented

22. The telegraph meant instant communication

24. New York City’s phenomenal growth

25. New Orleans in 1850s

26. Jethro Wood’s cast iron plow used interchangeable parts

27. Westward expansion

28. Mean center of population moves westward (Ohio by end of antebellum age)

29. National Road

30. old turnpike tollhouse

31. Canals (note: tow path and locks)

32. Erie Canal connected Great lakes to Hudson River, and thus Atlantic Ocean

33. Early railroad, 1830s

34. Railroads developed and improved by the late antebellum age, 1860s

35. Railroads by end of antebellum age in 1860 more extensive in north

36. Manifest Destiny

37. Southern honor evidenced by persistence of dueling

39. Southern belles on pedestal

40. Antebellum Americans still viewed Native Americans as savages

42. “Civilized Indian”

43. Land Grid System allows for many small landowners

44. Homestead Act ensures small land owning

46. Immigrants crowded into cities

48. Anti-Irish Catholic poem

50. The antebellum age witnessed a series of financial “panics”