1. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION MOVING US WEST
Unit 8
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION MOVING US WEST

2. I. Industrial Revolution
1800 = New England = geographical advantages = rivers, streams, ports
Heart = technology = inventions, ex: The Cotton Gin and the Power Loom
Factories = Lowell’s Mass. Textile Factory = Factory System
Capitalism
Corporations
Economic Growth!

3. II. West Daniel Boone Western Pioneer
Explored the Appalachian Mtns. = The Cumberland Gap = Kentucky
Marked the Wilderness Road
100,000+ people between 1775 & 1790

4. Roadways Private companies built turnpikes (toll roads)
Tolls paid by travelers
Crushed Stone
“corduroy roads” = logs

5. Rivers More comfortable Could carry more Drawbacks:
Eastern Region = flowed north-south direction, most goods headed east-west
Downstream was easy, upstream = low current

6. 1780s-1790s = steam boats
Cargo & passengers
1807, Robert Fulton launched the Clermont
Loud, quicker, smooth, cheaper
River Cities = Cincinnati & St. Louis

7. The Erie Canal
An artificial waterway, connect the Hudson River to Lake Erie
Locks = compartments to raise or lower the water level = like an escalator for boats
Opened October 26, 1825

8. III. Growth
= new states Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, & Ohio
= new states Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi, Alabama, & Missouri
Pioneer Families = rivers, the Appalachian Mtns.
Men: sports (wrestling)
Women: quilting
Both: cornhusking