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• What is SECTIONALISM?
• How could this cause problems?
Sectionalism vs.
Nationalism
Regional Economies Create Differences
Objective: Students will understand Sectionalism and Nationalism in the
United States.
The First Industrial Revolution
Pre 1812 two events changed the US economy
• Embargo Act of 1807- made trade illegal with European countries
• War of 1812- British placed blockade around US making trade
impossible
War of 1812
Embargo Act of 1807
Industries in Europe
• Great Britain discovered the ability to use coal and water to power
machines prior to the US
• Moved away from cottage industries
• US adopted these ideas for use in their own ways
Industrial Revolution Video Clip
http://www.history.com/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us/videos/industrialrevolution
Interchangeable Parts
• Eli Whitney – demonstrated use of interchangeable parts to President
Adams in 1801
• First used on fire arms
Interchangeable Parts continued….
3 advantages of interchangeable parts
1.
Increased production, items could be mass produced
2.
Repairs are easier on items, can replace one part
3.
Allowed the use of more unskilled labor for lower salary
Interchangeable Parts continued….
• Interchangeable parts and mass production resulted in Industrial
Revolution
Industrial Revolution- a social & economic reorganization in the 19th
century as machines replaced hand tools and large scale factory
production developed
New England Economy
• Samuel Slater – Englishman that brought secrets of textile
mills to America from England in 1793
• England made it illegal for textile workers to leave their
country with their knowledge of how machines worked
Slater Textile Mill
New England Economy
continued…
The first factories were placed in New England because:
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Economy had been based on shipping and foreign trade
Fast moving rivers to supply water for factories
Large supply of people willing to work in the factories
New England Economy
continued…
• Town of Lowell (1822)– booming manufacturing
center
• Many women came from farms to work
• Irish men, women, and children came after the
Potato Famine
In New England, small family farms remainedonly growing what was needed. In the late
1700’s slavery began to die out.
New Inventions
• Cotton Gin
• Invented by Eli Whitney in 1794
• Cleaned cotton by removing seeds and leaves
• Steel Plows
• Invented by John Deere
• Sped up the process of planting crops
• Grain Reaper
• Invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1834
• Made harvest faster and easier
Southern Economy
• “Cotton is King”- plantations used new
inventions to help production
• Farming transformed Louisiana, Mississippi,
and Alabama- expanding slavery
From 1790 to 1810 the south slave numbers
increased from 700,000 to 1,200,000 slaves.
Cotton is King
http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/videos/king_cotton_and_the_cotton_gin
President Madison’s Goals
• In 1815, President Madison wants to unite the nation and make the nation
self-sufficient.
• SELF-SUFFICIENT-
• PREDICT- What could be done?
President Madison’s Goals
In 1815, President Madison wants to unite the nation and make
the nation self-sufficient.
Madison’s Goals
1. Improve transportation / internal improvements
2. Establish the Tariff of 1816
3. Resurrect national bank (Second Bank of the US)
The American System
• Congressman Henry Clay proposes the
American System
• The North would produce
manufactured goods for the
South
• The South would produce
the crops and livestock for
the North
Internal Improvements
• National Road
• Connected regions together by land (MD to
IL)
• Started Westward migration
• Erie Canal built in New York
• AKA “The Big Ditch”
• Linked Hudson River to the Great Lakes a
• Shipping charges dropped
National Road
Erie Canal
The Era of Good Feelings
• James Monroe- elected president (1816)
• Monroe- (a Virginian Dem-Rep) went on a
goodwill tour across New England & was
well received
• America entered into an "Era of Good
Feelings"
NATIONALISM
• Page 219-223
• Complete the chart with your elbow
partner
Let’s actually SEE the expansion!
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Color
Name of Treaty or Claim
Year
Red
Yellow
Green
Orange
purple
Blue
Grey (light Black)
Brown
Texas Annexed
13 Original Colonies / States
Treaty of Paris with Britain
Adams-Onis Treaty
Louisiana Purchase
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
1845
Also Label (in Blue)
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Oregon Territory / Treaty with Britain
1783
1819
1803
1848
1853
1824
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Dorothea Dix
Horance Mann
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nat Turner
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglas
Sarah or Angelina Grimke
William Lloyd Garrison
Denmark Vessey
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
Joseph Smith
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Samuel Morse
Harriet Tubman
Stephen Foster
Eli Whitney
Samuel Austin Worcester
John C. Calhoun
Charles Finney
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Black Hawk
Santa Anna
Stephen Austin
Sam Houston
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Mary Paul
Sarah Bagley
David Walker
Margaret Fuller
Susan B Anthony