1. President Madison video & Questions

2. The First Industrial Revolution

3. Transportation Improvements Scarce Skilled Craftsmen Protected Markets
Overview of the Causes
Trade Disruption
Population Growth
Transportation Improvements
Scarce Skilled Craftsmen
Protected Markets
“Borrowed Technology”

4. Origins of the Industrial Revolution
Trade Disruption – creates demand
Population Growth – demand & labor
Transportation Improvements – Easier to move products.
Early canal

5. Origins II
Scarce Skilled Craftsmen
Protected Markets

6. Origins III “Borrowed Technology” Richard Arkwright’s Water Frame
Samuel Slater
Arkwright’s Water Frame

7. Spinning Wheel

8. Slater and the First Textile Mill
Right: Slater’s Mill, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

9. Slater’s Mill

10. “Borrowed Technology”
Power Loom
Francis Cabot Lowell
Silhouette of Francis Cabot Lowell
Silhouette of Francis Cabot Lowell

11. Power Loom Weaver
Power Loom Weaver

12. Lowell Textile Mills

13. Lowell Textile Mills

14. Slaves Using the Cotton Gin

15. Changes in Cotton Production
1820
1860

16. Value of Cotton Exports As % of All US Exports

17. Industrialization’s Regional Development
Geographic Concentration
Regional Contrasts
Northeast
South
West

18. Transportation Revolution
Overview:
Canals
Steamboats
Railroads

19. “Borrowed Technology”
Canals
British Invention
Erie Canal
Early Canals

20. Erie Canal

21. Rivers Versus Canals Water Ways One Way Slow Light Goods Costly N/S
Direction
Canals
Two Way
Faster
Heavy Goods
Cheaper
E/W

22. Erie Canal Geography Construction and Cost Impact: “Canal Boom”
New York becomes the top commerce city of America
Encourages people to move to Great Lakes area

23. Erie Canal

24. “Borrowed Technology”
Railroads
British Invention

25. 1850’s to 1880s steam locomotive

27. Impact of Railroads
Time – Much faster to travel
Transportation Costs of goods go down by drastic amounts

28. Steamboats
Impact – now products can be moved quickly on southern rivers
Why are these boats designed to look like this?

30. Impact of Industrialization
Changes in Work
Immigration
Immigrants to the US, 1887

31. Immigration to the US,

32. Two Chief Groups: Irish and Germans
Stamp US Postage Adopted in 1999

33. Impact of Industrialization
Urbanization
Growth of Towns and Cities
Chicago, 1860

34. Impact of Industrialization
US Social Structure
Stratified Society
Growing Inequality – Many poor workers
The beginnings of middle class. – Factory managers

35. Growing Economic Inequality
Tenements in Slums

36. The Industrial Revolution in Perspective
US Still an Agrarian Society
But big changes are on the way.

37. Economics of the American System
Protective tariffs are put in place
No central banking or monetary system in place
Banks could issue their own money
Between 1815 – 1860 there are 3 major economic panics?
Debate over how much power the federal govt has in financial working of the country

38. James Monroe Video and Questions

39. Homework
Answer questions for pp