1. What do we know? How do we transport people and goods today?
How long does it take to travel across the city? The state? The country?
How long to get across the Atlantic?
How do we farm today? Do you know anything about farming? What is the process?
How do we communicate today?
How long does it take to get a letter across the country? A phone call? An ? A text message?
How do we make clothing today? What is the process? (from plant to your back)

2. Now think of these things during colonial times.
Transportation:
Communication:
Clothing making:
Farming:

3. Transportation Revolution
The National Road
Funded by the federal gov’t
From Maryland to Ohio River

4. Transportation Revolution
The Steamboat
Robert Fulton
move quickly upstream
Cutting the trip up the Mississippi from 4 months to 20 days then to 6 days
Opened up great potential of the Mississippi
Helped transatlantic travel (50 days to cross the Atlantic to 10 days)

5. Transportation Revolution
The Erie Canal
across New York State (Lake Erie to Hudson River)
Lowered transportation costs ($100 over land to $4 on canal)
Helped New York City to become the nation’s greatest commercial center
Increase the price of farmland in the Great Lakes region

6. Transportation Revolution
Railroads
1st trains pulled by horses
Steam engine increased speed
Cost less than canals (brought an end to canals)
By canal the trip from NYC to Detroit was 28 days, by train it was 2!!!

7. Transportation Revolution
What did the transportation developments that occurred during this time period have in common?
In what part of the country were most of the railroads located in the mid-1800s?
How did canals and railroads affect the way that people in different states interacted?
Why do you think this was the case?

8. Industrial Revolution
What do you think of when you see / hear / read the phrase ‘industrial revolution’?

9. Industrial Revolution
Samuel Slater
Brought textile mill technology to the US
Mills worked with the family system  everyone in the family works in the mill

10. Industrial Revolution
Francis Cabot Lowell
Centralized factory work  all parts of the manufacturing process occurs in the same location
Employed only single women

11. Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney
Interchangeable parts = ______________ _________________ _________________ _______________

12. Agricultural Innovations The steel plow – John Deere
Industrial Revolution
Agricultural Innovations
The steel plow – John Deere
The mechanical reaper – Cyrus McCormick

13. Message could be delivered almost instantly
Industrial Revolution
Samuel F. B. Morse
Electric telegraph
Morse code
Message could be delivered almost instantly

14. Industrial Revolution
Why do you think that Lowell would want to employ only single women, what would be the advantages?
Why / How might the railroad and the telegraph work together?
Make a list of all the inventions that we have discussed: