1. Bell Ringer 4/14
President Andrew Jackson used his influence to encourage Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act of What was the result of the Indian Removal Act?
A Native American territory was created on the western coast of the United States.
Many Native American tribes were forced to relocate to lands west of the Mississippi River.
Native Americans received the same equal rights as white U.S. citizens had.
Native American tribes began to work with the U.S. government instead of fighting it.
In 1832, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Worcester v. Georgia that the state of Georgia had no right to force the Cherokee from their native lands. Why did this ruling have little positive effect?
Georgia had no interest in Cherokee lands.
President Jackson did not enforce the ruling.
The Cherokee Nation chose to move to Canada.
The Trail of Tears had already occurred.
What was the Trail of Tears?

2. Happy Easter

3. Lesson 5: Industrial Revolution

4. Industrial Revolution
Period starting in early 1800’s when people shifted from making things by hand to making them with machines.

5. Francis Cabot Lowell What does TEXTILE mean?!?!? American Business-man
Built the first textile factory in the US
What does TEXTILE mean?!?!?

6. “Lowell Girls” Lowell hired young women in factories Work 12-15 days
Opened job market to women for first time

7. What else is he famous for creating?
Eli Whitney
American inventor
promoted a system to make goods using interchangeable parts
Bonus question:
What else is he famous for creating?

8. Check in What was the industrial revolution?
How did women fit into Lowell’s factory system?

9. So why is this all important?
Helped push North and South farther apart
Factories = North
Plantations = South
Led to Civil War