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Chapter 11 Map Activity
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Chapter 11
National & Regional
Growth
or The
“Era of Good Feelings”?
(1816 -1824)
Today’s Learning Target: Ch.11.1
Analyze how the Industrial Revolution
transforms the American economy & society
Cumberland (National Road),
1811
Principal Canals in 1840
National & Regional Growth
Map Activity
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Wheeling and Vandalia
Hudson River
Lake Erie and the Ohio River
Toledo and Cincinnati
Erie Canal and Pennsylvania Canal
Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland, and Buffalo
Possible answer: merchant might send
the goods up the Hudson River to Albany
and then west along the Erie Canal to
Buffalo
Read, “One American’s Story” p. 365
Now, examine the diagram of the New
England textile mill p. 370
What do you notice about the mill?
What might working conditions be like in
these mills?
Read, “Factories Rise in New England” p. 366
Industry develops & transforms America
Late 1700s
Industrial
Revolution begins
in Britain as
factories start to
replace hand tools
1801
Eli Whitney
demonstrates the
use of
interchangeable
parts
1790
Samuel Slater
builds first
American spinning
mill & uses
children as labor
1813
Francis Cabot
Lowell builds a
factory that spins
yarn & weaves
cloth from it
After 1790
Spinning mill
owners begin to
use entire families
for labor
1830s
Factories begin to
replace water
power with steam
engines
Early inventions change the way Americans do things
1807
Robert Fulton
launches the first
steamship the
Clermont, on the
Hudson River
1836
Blacksmith John
Deere invents a
lightweight plow
with a steel cutting
edge
1830
Peter Cooper
builds the first
successful steampowered
locomotive
1837
Samuel F.B. Morse
invents the
telegraph
1831
Cyrus McCormick
gains instant
success by
designing a
mechanical reaper
1844
First long-distance
telegraph line
carries news from
Baltimore to
Washington D.C.
Invention
Textile
Mills
Interchangeable
Parts
Steamboat
Telegraph
Steel plow
Mechanical
Reaper
Threshing
Machine
Importance
Invention
Textile
Mills
Importance
Brought workers, machines, & resources under
one roof – transforms work.
Interchangeable
Parts
Steamboat
Parts are the same so assembly is faster
Make travel upstream faster, easier
Telegraph
Communication is almost instant, links the nation
Steel plow
Stronger, cuts better, faster.
Mechanical
Reaper
Cuts grain and makes harvesting faster
Threshing
Machine
Separates grain from stalk – harvesting is faster
American Industrial Revolution
• Economic change in America (farming
to manufacturing)
• Factory machines replaced hand tools
• Large scale manufacturing replaced
farming as the main form of work.
Factory System
• Production system that brought
workers & machines under one roof
• Built near a source of water power
• eventually used steam power
• Workers left farms & moved to cities
• Work for wages
•First factories were in New England
Samuel Slater
(“Father of the Factory System”)
The Lowell/Waltham (Massachusetts)
Factory System:
Lowell’s town - 1814
Lowell in 1850
Lowell Mill
Early Textile Loom
New England
Textile
Centers:
1830s
Lowell Girls
What was their typical “profile?”
Lowell Mills
Time Table
Irish Immigrant Girls at Lowell
I’m a Factory Girl Filled with Wishes
I'm a factory girl
Everyday filled with fear
From breathing in the poison air
Wishing for windows!
I'm a factory girl
Tired from the 13 hours of work each day
And we have such low pay
Wishing for shorten work times!
I'm a factory girl
Never having enough time to eat
Nor to rest my feet
Wishing for more free time!
I'm a factory girl
Sick of all this harsh conditions
Making me want to sign the petition!
So do what I ask for because I am a factory girl
And I'm hereby speaking for all the rest!
New England Dominance in
Textiles
Eli Whitney’s Gun Factory
Interchangeable Parts Rifle
First Turnpike- 1790 Lancaster, PA
By 1832, nearly 2400 mi. of road connected
most major cities.
Cumberland (National Road),
1811
Conestoga Covered Wagons
Conestoga Trail, 1820s
Robert Fulton
& the Steamboat
1807: The Clermont
Erie Canal System
Erie Canal, 1820s
Begun in 1817; completed in 1825
Principal Canals in 1840
John Deere & the Steel Plow
(1837)
Cyrus McCormick
& the Mechanical Reaper: 1831
Samuel F. B. Morse
1840 – Telegraph
Cyrus Field
& the Transatlantic Cable, 1858
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1791
Actually invented
by a slave!