1. The Market Revolution & Growing Industry in America

2. What was the Market Revolution
What was the Market Revolution? Development of how goods were processed and made… Also, an improvement in how labor was organized

3. Effects of the War of At the end of the War, Americans began to realize their need for easier mobility across the nation This will lead to an increased number of roads, canals, and eventually railways

4. INFRASTRUCTURE

5. Also saw an increase in domestic manufacturing This meant that the US was moving away from being so heavily dependent on importing foreign products

6. New Inventions!

7. Interchangeable Parts
Inventor: Eli Whitney
Year: 1801
Whitney first used this concept to create a musket with interchangeable parts
Parts were no longer specialized for particular gun (in Whitney’s case) but instead all similar parts fits that model of gun
This was later expanded to fit a variety of goods

9. FARMING & AGRICULTURE

10. Cotton Gin Inventor: Eli Whitney Year: 1794
Need for cotton by factories in the North
A worker could produce fifty times more cotton fiber
Increase of slave labor
“Cotton Kingdom:” owners of large plantations

11. “WHITE GOLD”

12. “COTTON IS KING”

13. Sewing Machine Inventor: Elias Howe Year: 1846
Made producing clothing efficient
Made cloths less expensive so even the lower and middle classes could dress like the wealthier Americans
Ties back to cotton

14. Metal Plow Inventor: John Deere Year: 1837 Blacksmith
Tough plains soil could not be plowed by cast iron plow
Assisted farmers greatly

15. Mechanical Reaper Inventor: Cyrus McCormick Year: 1831
Cut wheat many times faster
than a human worker could
Enabled farmers to cultivate
more land with fewer workers
Great for the prairies of the Midwest

18. Transportation and Communication

19. Steamboat Builder: Robert Fulton Year: 1807
First practical steamboat was called the Clermont
Made traveling on river easier and faster
Canals
Used for trade and the moving of raw materials
First oceangoing steamship wouldn’t be produced until 1850 in Great Britain

20. Erie Canal Chief Engineer: Benjamin Wright NY Gov. DeWitt Clinton
Year:
Over 300 miles long
50,000 men → dug by hand
Cost: $100 M today
Upstate New York
Connected the Great Lakes
with the Atlantic Ocean

21. Telegraph Inventor: Samuel Morse Year: 1844 Revolutionized
communication
Morse Code
Factories in the East could
now communicate with
markets in the West

22. On March 24, 1844, the first message – “What hath God wrought
On March 24, 1844, the first message – “What hath God wrought?” – was sent. In 1856, the Western Union Company was formed, and by 1866, a transatlantic telegraph cable had been laid between America and Europe.

23. Transatlantic Cable Builder: Cyrus Fields and
Atlantic Telegraph Company
Allowed for telegraphs to be sent from the US to Europe

24. Most telegraph wire is in the NORTH

25. The NORTH is more INDUSTRIAL The SOUTH is more AGRICULTURAL

26. Riding the Train…

27. The Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) line’s Tom Thumb was the first train in the U.S. By the end of 1830, the B&O had carried 80,000 passengers along a 13-mile track.

28. By 1840, 409 railroads had laid 3,300 miles of track By 1860, America had close to 30,000 miles of rail

29. Most the railroad track is in the NORTH

30. Trains had an enormous impact: 1) demand for labor to build tracks encouraged immigration 2) demand for capital to finance the lines attracted foreign investment 3) The ability to transport large amounts of goods and agricultural products opened new markets and linked old ones 4) Communications improved vastly 5) Going from here to there got a whole lot easier!