The Industrial Revolution:

Person Invention What does it do?

The Transportation Revolution:

New Inventions: “Yankee Ingenuity” - Americans were willing to try anything, they were first copiers, then innovators

The Northern Industrial “Juggernaut”

- Business friendly climate:

Samuel Slater

Notes: - The transportation revolution

o Turnpikeo National road o Erie Canal System (map of

principal canals of the 1840s) o Steamboat – robert fulton o Clipper ships o Railroads – immigrant labor (irish

in the north east) - New Inventions: “Yankee Ingenuity”

o Ameircans were willing to try anything

o They were first copiers, then innovators o Cotton Gin – eli whitney o Interchangeable parts – eli whitney o Steel plow – john deere o Mechanical reaper – cyrus mccormick o Telegraph – Samuel f.b. morseo Transatlantic cable – cyrus field

The Northern Industrial “Juggernaut”

- Business friendly climate:

Samuel Slater

Francis Cabot Lowell

What’s happening in America by the 1850s? - Regional specialization

East = South = West =

Immigrants: ---

o Sewing machine – elias howe & Isaac singer - The Northern Industiral “Juggernaut”

o Creating a business friendly climate Supreme court rulings:

Fltcher v peck Darthmouth v woodward Mcculloch v Maryland Gibbons v ogden

Laissez faire – govt did much to assist capitalism o Samuel slater “father of the factory system” o Francis cabot Lowell – textile plant Lowell Mill

Lowell girls - What’s happening in America by the 1850s?

o Regional specialization East = industrial South = cotton & slavery West = the nation’s “breadbastket”

o American population (map in 1860) o National origin of immigrants: 1820-1860 (chart) o Know-Nothing Party (American Party or Nativist)

Anti immigrant therefore anti alcohol (temperance movement)