1. Early 19 th Century Industrialization in the US

2. Transportation Revolution

3. First Turnpike- 1790 Lancaster, PA By 1832, nearly 2400 mi. of road connected most major cities.

4. Cumberland (National Road), 1811

5. Erie Canal System

6. Erie Canal, 1820s Begun in 1817; completed in 1825

7. Robert Fulton & the Steamboat 1807: The Clermont

8. Principal Canals in 1840

9. Inland Freight Rates

10. The “Iron Horse” (1830) 1830  13 miles of track built by Baltimore & Ohio RR By 1850  9000 mi. of RR track [1860  31,000 mi.]

11. The Railroad Revolution, 1850s p Immigrant labor built the No. RRs. p Slave labor built the So. RRs.

12. New Inventions Yankee “Ingenuity”

13. Resourcefulness & Experimentation p Americans were willing to try anything. p They were first copiers, then innovators. 1800  41 patents were approved. 1860  4,357 “ “ “

14. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1791

15. Oliver Evans First prototype of the locomotive First automated flour mill

16. John Deere & the Steel Plow (1837)

17. Cyrus McCormick & the Mechanical Reaper: 1831

18. Samuel F. B. Morse 1840 – Telegraph

19. Elias Howe & Isaac Singer 1840s Sewing Machine

20. Lowell Mill

21. Early Textile Mill Loom Floor

22. Early Textile Loom

23. New England Textile Centers: 1830s

24. New England Dominance in Textiles

25. Regional Specialization EAST  Industrial SOUTH  Cotton & Slavery WEST  The Nation’s “Breadbasket”

26. American Population Centers in 1820

27. American Population Centers in 1860

28. National Origin of Immigrants: 1820 - 1860 Why now?

29. Changing Occupation Distributions: 1820 - 1860