Be Prepared!!!
Sit down and get out a pen/pencil
HOMEWORK:
Scripts, Playbills, Puppets, Notes
due tomorrow!
Inventions
Elias Howe
Isaac Singer
Dozens
One
North
Jethro
Wood
Iron Plow
Plow with
removable parts
John
Deere
Steel Plow
Lightweight plow
Cyrus
McCormick
Mechanical
Reapers
Horse-drawn machine that
mowed wheat and other
grains
These machines helped farmers raise more grain with
fewer hands. Thousands of farmworkers left the
countryside. Some went west to start their own farms
and others found work in factories.
Mechanical Reaper
Samuel F. B. Morse
“Talking Wire”
device that sent electrical signals
along a wire.
News
Minutes
Long
Horse or mule
drawn cars along
wooden rails
Steam-powered
locomotive engine
used to pull cars
Workers who moved freight on horse-drawn wagons
feared they would lose their jobs. Investors in canals
feared they would lose their investment to railroads.
A. Accident-prone B. Unreliable C. Dangerous
A. Build sturdier bridges B. Wooden rails replaced with iron
C. Build solid roadbeds
Commerce
Trade
Nations
Cotton
Fur
Wheat
John Griffiths
Lumber
Tobacco
Clipper Ship
Sleek vessels with tall masts
and huge sails
Speed
United States
1840s and 1850s
Steam
Water
More
Buy
Raw Materials
Clothes
Finished Goods
Markets
Lower
Northern Economy
•Factories began
to use steam
power (instead
of water)
•Factories could
now be built
anywhere and
didn’t need to
be built near
rivers
Early
Later
Directions: The north was experiencing an economic boom
during the 1800s. New inventions contributed to the expansion of
the economy in the north. To better understand some of the
inventions and their effects on life in the north, read the article
below. On the back of this page, fill in the sales add. Your goal is
convince your fellow northerners to purchase the new invention.
Be sure to include the following in your add:
A picture of the invention
A description of the invention
An explanation on how the invention will
enhance (make better) life in the north
Day 2
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Laborers worked longer hours for lower wages.
Mass Production
Skilled Workers
Proud
Creative
Management Position
Families
Whistle
Most factories
were without
heating systems or
windows
Accidents
Organize
Wages
Trade Unions
Artisans in each trade
united
Shorter
Workday
Higher
Wages
Better
Working
Conditions
Strike
Workers refuse to do
their jobs
Ten-Hour
Replaced
Right
Demands
Women earned less money then men did. Union
leaders did not want women in their ranks.
4
United States
Famine
Disease and Starvation
Severe food shortage
Shortages
1
Germany
10
Political Cartoons
Directions: Below are 4 political cartoons depicting the
feelings many white, native-born Americans had toward
immigrants from Ireland and other European countries. Use
the political cartoons to answer the questions.
1. The man on the right is carrying a box
marked “Ballot,” what is this cartoon implying
Irish immigrants are doing?
2. Both men depicted are Irish Immigrants.
How can we ascertain this and what
characteristics does the cartoon imply Irish
immigrants possess?
3. Many Irish families fled Ireland following
famine. What does this cartoon suggest about
Irish immigrants?
4. During the mid-1800s, Ireland was under
British rule. Great Britain would pay for the
transportation of impoverished Irish
immigrants from Ireland to the United States.
Why do you think Great Britain was doing that?
5. Published in Harper’s Weekly, a popular Northern
newspaper, this cartoon makes a comparison between
the inequality that exists in the North as well as the
South. Who does the cartoon depict?
6. From our prior knowledge, we have learned African
Americans did not have equal status as whites in
southern society during the mid-19th century. What
might this political cartoon be saying about Irish
Americans in the northern states? states?
7. The Irish immigrant is lighting the powder keg he
is sitting on top of. What might that represent about
the effects immigration has had on the north in the
1800s?
This group will make
paper airplanes which
look like this…
This group will make
paper airplanes
choosing your own
design…
60
secods