1. The North & The Industrial Revolution
TCAPs IS SUPER PETTY. . .

2. EQs What is the Industrial Revolution? (8.2 spi 8)
How did urbanization, technology, and social change affect the country? (8.2 spi 8)

3. Today Video on the North Notes on the North Finish comic strip
Cause/Effect assignment on the North

4. Where is the Cumberland Gap located?
F.O.A. (Bellwork)
Where is the Cumberland Gap located?

5. Cumberland Gap
Cumberland Gap (el. 1,600 ft (490 m)) is a pass through the Cumberland Mountains region of the Appalachian Mountains, also known as the Cumberland Water Gap, at the junction of the U.S. states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. Famous in American history for its role as one key passageway through the lower central Appalachians, it was an important part of the Wilderness Road and is now part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park

6. LCAP
We’ll examine Nos. 2, 9 and 16 today.

7. Question
What’s this?

8. The Industrial Revolution
Rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing in the mid-1700s
Begins in Britain with the textile industry

9. Slater’s Mill
Samuel Slater – British mechanic who secretly fled Britain and started a textile mill in Rhode Island.

10. Problem. . .
Remember that in the 1790s the U.S. was about to go to war with France
XYZ Affair
U.S. didn’t help them fight against Britain
American guns were all handmade individually; fixing them was hard and time consuming

11. “Mass production be shakin’ it.” – Eli Whitney
Good Ol’ Mr. Whitney
Eli Whitney – Most famous for the cotton gin, but also:
Interchangeable parts that were all the same size and fit perfectly
Mass production of items using machines and interchangeable parts
“Mass production be shakin’ it.” – Eli Whitney

12. Impact of War of 1812
British blockades forced Americans to buy goods made in American factories; more and more factories built
Many Americans began to see how dependent on Britain and other countries they had been

13. The Rhode Island System
Samuel Slater would hire entire families to work in his factories. Why?
Apprentices left because the job was boring
Families brought children who worked for little money

14. The Lowell System
Instead of families, Francis Lowell hired young, unmarried women to work in his factories
Special loom that could spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill
Also offered his workers education

15. The Rise of Unions
Factories could produce goods much faster than individual craftsmen; began to lose money
Factory workers began to get paid less as more people fought for factory jobs
Unions formed to try to improve pay and working conditions

16. Transportation Revolution
Rapid growth in speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
Robert Fulton & the steamboat

17. Railroads & Locomotives
1840 – 2,800 miles of track in the U.S.
1860 – 30,000 miles of track in the U.S.
Linked most major cities to each other
Boosted America’s economy because more goods could be shipped farther and easier

18. New Fuel Coal – Burned hotter than wood; more efficient
Found mostly in the northern U.S.; coal mining becomes very profitable thanks to railroads
Used to make steel

19. Other Inventions Samuel Morse – Morse code & telegraphs
John Deere – Steel plow
Cyrus McCormick – Mechanical reaper
Isaac Singer – Sewing machine

20. Assignment We’ll make a cause and effect chart today.
Copy these names/terms down:
1) Richard Arkwright
2) Samuel Slater
3) Eli Whitney
4) Francis Cabot Lowell
5) Clermont
6) Gibbons v. Ogden
7) Samuel D. Morse (Morse Code)
8) John Deere
9) Cyrus McCormick

21. Assignment
Use pages to complete the assignment.

22. Cause and Effect