1. Early Industrial Revolution 1765 -1860 Cause & Effect

2. What role did the War of 1812 play in America’s Industrial Revolution?

4. Life in the 1800’s
Travel
Communications
Live
Work
Play/Luxury

5. Sod house on the plains – 1911.

7. How did the War of 1812 help launch the I.R. in the US?
Before the war we bought almost all our finished goods from England up
During the war the British blockaded our coast and refused to sell us any finished goods, forced America to begin to build factories and make its own manufactured (or finished) goods.
South forced to sell raw materials to the North, and buy finished goods from the North
After the war we continued to build factories and produce finished goods.

8. John Deere’s Plow

9. John Deere’s Plow What were some of the causes and effects of this?
How did this change America?

10. What do you notice in this picture? What room is this?

11. What are they doing in this 1912 picture?

12. Key Negative Effects Increased pollution
Took land away from Native Americans
Increased internal & external conflict(s)
Child Labor
Increased the divide between laborers and wealthy.
Longer working hours for many people.
Helped bring about the Civil War
Factories produced more pollution
Changed the family structure

13. Key Benefits to America
Growth in population through immigration
Economy shifted from a barter economy to a cash economy.
Country expanded rapidly to the Pacific Ocean
Shifted from an agricultural nation to an industrial one
We became a more tolerant nation (of other races)
Helped end slavery
Helped to give women the right to vote
Better standard of living
People began to live longer
More educated population
Nation became more powerful
Development of the Middle Class