Regional Economies
Create Differences
 Chapter 7, Section 1
 Objectives:
1. To describe the effects of the Industrial Revolution
on the United STATES
2. TO EXPLAIN HOW TWO DIFFERENT
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPED IN THE
NORTH AND THE SOUTH
3. TO SUMMARIZE THE AMERICAN SYSTEM, A PLAN
DEVISED TO UNITE THE COUNTRY
American Industrialization
 Eli Whitney invents
“interchangeable parts,” sparking a
semi-mechanized factory revolution.
 Mass production is possible
 lowering cost of production
 making cheaper goods available
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Replaces hand production by largescale mechanized means of
production
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/timeline_lo.html
ANIMATION AT: http://college.cengage.com/history/us/resources/students/primary/cottongin.htm
Causes of Industrialization
1. Embargo of 1807 & War of 1812 prevent
Americans from trading with Europe

WHY???
2. New England develops industries to make
products no longer available from Europe
3. Unemployed New Englanders flock to
textile mills in New England
Two Agricultural Systems:
North and South
NORTH: Farmers in the Old
Northwest develop small
farms with cash crops
(corn, wheat)
 Do not require
extensive labor
 DECLINE OF
SLAVERY
 By 1804, most Northern
states had voluntarily
abolished slavery!
SOUTH: Cotton Gin spurs
agricultural
industrialization in the
South
 “Cotton Kingdom” in
LA, MS, & AL
 EXPANSION OF
SLAVERY & SLAVE
TRADE
WHY???
Slavery population increases…..
 How does this further
the sectionalism in the
United States?
“The American System”
CREATORS: Pres. Madison & Henry Clay
1.
Strong Bank

available credit and unified currency $
2. Protective Tariff
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3.
encourage manufacturing
AND pay for canals and roads
Tariff of 1816
Canals and Roads
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National Road (Cumberland, MD Vandalia, Ill.)
Erie Canal
 Why did we propose and pass the Tariff of 1816?
 North liked it, South didn’t……
 Why did all of America accept a second national bank?
Erie Canal
 VIDEO
 1. Why did we build the
canal in NY?
 2. What are three reasons
why merchants in the
West supported the
building of a canal?
Map: U.S. Manufacturing Employment, 1820 and 1850
Map: Major Roads, Canals, and Railroads, 1850
Era of Good Feelings
 Election of 1816: Republicans crush Federalists, 183 to 34
 James Monroe is 5th President of the United States
 Monroe’s administration was called the “Era of Good Feelings”
 WHY? (HINT: think about the decline of the Federalist Party)
ANSWER: With no Federalists, the US seemed united
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/00000073.htm
Objectives:
1. To describe the effects of the Industrial Revolution
on the United STATES
2. TO EXPLAIN HOW TWO DIFFERENT
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPED IN THE
NORTH AND THE SOUTH
3. TO SUMMARIZE THE AMERICAN SYSTEM, A
PLAN DEVISED TO UNITE THE COUNTRY
terms
 Eli Whitney
 Interchangeable parts
 Mass production
 Industrial revolution
 Henry clay
 American system
 Tariff of 1816
 National road
 Erie canal