1. It’s All Connected

2. 1 Identical parts that can be used to make identical products.

3. 2 You increase the speed things are made and are they are easier to repair.

4. 3 The amount is greatly increased.

5. 4 More mills increased the demand for cotton

6. 5 Fast flowing rivers

7. 6 Textiles (cloth)

8. 7 Women

9. 8 About 50 pounds per day

10. 9 About 3.2 million

11. 10 Slavery greatly increased

12. 11 The number of mills in the North grew along with cotton production

13. 12 Slavery spread west

14. 13 The reaper increased grain production

15. 14 The turf was too tough for other plows

16. 15 It could travel upstream

17. 16 Most roads, canals and railroads are in the North.

18. 17 The National Road ran from Baltimore to Illinois

19. 18 More railroads and steamships increased the demand for coal and steel.

20. 19 The telegraph speeded communications across huge distances.

21. 20 The Irish built canals, particularly the Erie Canal.

22. 21 Poverty and famine (potato famine)

23. 22 1846 – 92,484 1850 – 206,041

24. 23a Cities in the Northeast grew rapidly.

25. 23b Jobs in factories attracted immigrants to the North.

26. 23c Immigration increased the demand for Midwest food crops

27. 24 It allowed a person to claim land if they lived on it for a certain amount of time.

28. 25 Link the economies of east and west, promote settlement of the west

29. 26 The Plains Indians were pushed onto reservations to make the land available for settlement.

30. 27 The buffalo nearly went extinct

31. 28 Both laws greatly increased westward migration