1. Nationalism to Sectionalism
United States History - Mrs. O'Shea
8/1/2019
Nationalism to Sectionalism

2. Industrial Revolution
Railroads and Canals
Cotton Gin
Trail of Tears

3. Industrial Revolution
British inventors began to make textiles with ______________.
A British textile worker, Samuel Slater, set up a textile factory in Rhode Island in 1790.
This was the beginning of the Industrial _______________ in the U.S.!
When factories replace work done by hands – mass production

4. Effects of Factories
________ developed as farmers and immigrants took available factory jobs.
Factory workers often worked 15 hours or more a day.
Child labor and injuries were common, and wages were low.

5. What is happening in this picture?

6. Railroads

7. United States rail network - 1870

8. Canals

9. Cotton Gin
· It was difficult to make a profit from cotton because cottonseeds were removed by hand.
Fact = It took one person an entire day to clean one pound of cotton.
Cotton Ball, picked 1915
Georgia

10. Therefore, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793.
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin.

11. Effects of the Cotton Gin
Plantation owners began to earn a lot of money growing cotton
It increases their _____________________.

12. - Native Americans to be forced onto reservations as farmers took their land. Ex.) Cherokees, Creek