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Sean Helmlinger, Gavin Hoffman, Connor Thatcher, Tyler Gilchrist
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Beginning of industrial revolution
-was a period of time in using machines for
manufacturing products which was a
breakthrough
More efficient
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In 1769 Englishman Richard Arkwright
invented the water frame
The wheel was divided into separate
segments and when filled with water its
weight causes it to turn
The water frame was a lot more efficient
than the previous technology
It increased job growth because workers were
needed to work the water frame
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Steps of water wheel
1. Flowing water
2. Water moved parts
3. A machine cleaned raw cotton
4. Cotton spun
5. Woven into cloth
* Workers were only needed to watch spools
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Mills were constructed in RI, CT, MA
Children and adolescents worked in mills for
25 cents per a week
The largest watermill was built in Barbegal
Deverell, William. United States History; Beginnings
to 1877. Orlando:Holt, Rinehart, 2007. Print.
 Williams, Trevor. “Triumph of Inventions.” The
History of Inventions. New York: Facts of File,
1987.Print.
 “Textile Industry.” Gale Encyclopedia of US History.
Us History in Context. Web. 2 April 2013.
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Water Power Textile
Mill
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5-02
Eli Whitney
Shane Hieber,
Brooke Calle,
Annemarie Reardon.
Database
• Born December 8, 1765, Westboro,
Massachusetts
• Died January 8, 1825, New Haven,
Connecticut
• Graduated from Yale 1792
Text Book
• Created interchangeable parts-parts of a
machine that are identical
• Made 10,000 muskets in two years
• Created Cotton Gin
• Mass production- the efficient production of
large number of identical goods
Book
• Started his own business at 12 years old
• Finished collage at 28
• Became a tutor for a family in South Carolina
Work Cited
Alter, Judith. Eli Whitney. New York:
Franklin, 1990. Print.
Deverell, William and White, Deborah.
United States History Beginnings to 1877.
Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2007.
Print.
“Eli Whitney”. Science and its Times. US
History in Context. Web. 1 April 2013
By: Matt Gamils and Quanton
 Skilled workers formed labor unions to attempt improvement of
pay and working conditions
 Employers believed that higher cost of union employees
prevented competition with other manufacturers
 Workers demanded their needs or refused to work
 At an early stage It did not work
 America's first labor strike in 1786, successfully obtain a $6 per
week minimum wage
 Sarah G Bagley was a strong voice in the movement
Causes died down
Motivation declined and groups like KoL
and NLU disbanded
 Deverell, William. US history. Austin Texas: Holt, Runehart and
Winston, 2007. Print.
 Dynan, Linda.. “Trade Unions.” Dictionary of America. History In
Context. Web. 2 April 2013.
 Taylor R, George. “Bagley, Sarah G.” Notable American Women
1605-1950. Vol.1, Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 1971. Print.
 Google Images
5-04 The Steamboat
By: Mike Fey, Luke Nelson, Alex
Ochmanowicz
U.S. History in Context (Book)
-The first steam boat was made in France while
the first commercial steamboat was tested in
America called the Clermont which traveled
upstream the Mississippi without trouble;
soon the demand for the service arose.
U.S. History in Context (Database)
-The first steamboat made in the U.S. was
made from Robert Fulton. Fulton met Robert
R. Livingston, the U.S. minister to France
while trying to develop a submarine in paris.
He made the first practical commercial
steamboat by the financial resources of
Livingston. This steamboat inspired many
new ideas for better overall design and
efficiency .
Steamboats
(A History of the Early Adventure )
(Book)
-The Steamboat changed lives in America
because you could travel for a lot cheaper
than sailing or coach and also you could
transfer goods a lot quicker and cheaper than
other modes of transportation.
Works Cited
Deverell,William and Deborah Gray White.United States
History Beginnings to 1877.Orlando:Holt,Richard
Winston,2007.Print.
Gudmestad, Robert H. "Steamboat." Encyclopedia of the
New American Nation. Ed. Paul Finkelman. Vol. 3. Detroit:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 241-242. U.S. History In
Context. Web. 2 Apr. 2013.
Pictures from: Google Images and Bing Images
Ward, Ralph T. "Steamboats the History and Early
Adventure." Steamboats. The Bobbs-merrill Company
Inc., n.d. Web.
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By:
Chuck Mistic and Kevin Biddulph
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* Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin
* The cotton gin had a hand cranked- cylinder
with wire teeth to pull fibers from the seeds
* The cotton gin revolutionized the cotton
industry
* Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794
* He received almost $100,000
* The cotton gin was designed to separate shortstaple cotton
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* The cotton gin is short for cotton engine
* Eli was born in 1765 on December 8th
* Eli died in 1825 January 8th
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* Veverell, William. “Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin.” United States
History. Vol. 9, Orlando: holt Rinehart whinstone, 2007. print.
* Cooper, Grace R. "Cotton Gin." Dictionary of American History.
Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 2. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 2003. 428-429. U.S. History In Context. Web.
2 Apr. 2013.
* Alter, Judith. Eli Whitney. New York: Franklin Watts, 1990.
Print.
Rachael Nicholson, Gabi Duhn, Gina Unal
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Nativists - people who were opposed to
immigration
Feared losing job to immigrants
Immigrants- form unions for better wages
1840s American Republican Party
(Know-Nothings group) elected 5 senators and
43 representatives
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Industrial factories hired immigrants- worked for less money
which caused workers to become distraught with the thought that
they would lose their jobs
Economy failing in Europe- Traveled New World
Majority of immigrants- Catholic, poverty and diseases.
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 ( violence breaking out among workers at
the mines, railroads, etc.)
American Protective Association (1887)
Michael Burgan, Robin Doak, Matt Kachur, Joanne Mattern.
“Nativism in the work place.” American Immigration. Vol. 1,
Danbury: Grolier Educational, 1999. Print.
Deverell, William and Deborah Gray White. United States History
Beginnings To 1877. Orlando: Holt, Rinchart and Winston, 2007. Print.
“Immigration and Immigrants.” Encyclopedia of the United States in
the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Paul Finkelman. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 2001. U.S. History In Context. Web. 2 Apr. 2013.
Images obtained from Google.
5-7 Prison
Reform
By Zach Rothenberg, Emily
Watkins and Erin Bartlett
Works Cited
Axelrod, Alan. “Heroes and Pioneers”. New York: Macmillian, 1998.
Print.
Deverell, William. “U.S. History: beginnings to 1877. Austin, Texas:
Holt, 2007.
Dix, Dorthea. “Historic World readers.” Gale, 1994. U.S. History and
context. Web. 2 April 2013.
1840’s prisons
 Criminals
had little food, no light, chained
to walls and no clothes
 Put mentally ill people with criminals
 Treated the same way
 Prisons had no heat or
air conditioning
Dorothea Dix
 Major
influence in improving the
conditions of some of society, weakest
people
 Middle class reformer who started visiting
prisons in Massachusetts in 1841
 1 of the first women to conduct public
campaigns for American Social Reform
How she helped
 Reported
it to the state legislate and
factories were built for the mentally ill
 Started campaigns to get the disabled
out of prisons
 She wanted to start telling people the
prison conditions
 Thought mentally disabled shouldn’t suffer
or be put with criminals
 Built asylums later on in the 1840’s
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very much for
watching our power
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American AntiSlavery Society
By Brandon .L
and Andrew .R
American Anti-Slavery Society
 Abolition-
the legal prohibition and
ending of slavery, especially of slavery of
blacks in the U.S.
American Anti-Slavery Society
 The
Abolitionists
were people who
hated slavery and
wanted to put an
end to it, they used
different ways to
convince people.
 Many
people who
were against
slavery made
pamphlets and
books that moved
many people and
made them AntiSlavery.
American Anti-Slavery Society
 One
of the things
Abolitionists used
was pictures.
American Anti-Slavery Society
 William
Lloyd Garrison was a poet who
wrote abolitionist poems and convinced
people to put an end to it.
American Anti-Slavery Society
 “Resolved,
That the compact which exists
between the North and the South is a
covenant with death and an agreement
with hell; involving both parties in
atrocious criminality, and should be
immediately annulled. - William Lloyd
Garrison.
Andrew Wildgust, Josh Vinglas,
Jason Webster
Fredrick Douglass
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Fredrick Douglass was born a slave in 1817
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When he escaped at the age of 20 he fought for freedom of others
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Douglass was a friend and a advisor of Abraham Lincoln
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Douglass started a newspaper Called The north Star
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Douglass died of a heart attack in 1895
The blessings in which you, this day,
rejoice, are not enjoyed in
common…This fourth of July is yours,
not mine. You may rejoice, I must
Mourn
-Fredrick Douglass 1852 fourth of July
Sojourner Truth
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Born a slave in 1797 in Ulster County in New York
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Sojourner truth was auctioned off at the age of nine
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She was brutally beaten sometimes for no reason
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She claims God told her that she was to travel across the
united states and preach about slavery and women's rights
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Truth died November 26 th 1883
Works cited
• Darwell,William and Deborah gray white. United States History:
Beginning to 1877.Orlando:Holt Rinehart and Winston,
2007.Print.
• Adler, David. Fredrick Douglass a noble life .WI: Holiday House,
2010.Print
• “Sojourner Truth": World of
sociology:Gale,2001.Biography.incontext,Web:3 April.2013. \
• Bing Images
By: Megan Nolte
Morgan Collito
Faith DiJulia
 In the 1830’s a group
helped slaves escape
from the south.
 Arrange transportation
and hiding places for
slaves and fugitives.
 Slaves and Fugitives
stopped at stations
during the day and
moved during the
night.
 Harriet Tubman was one
of the most famous
conductors to help free
slaves.
 She helped more than
300 slaves from the south
to freedom.
 The railroad was so secret
that they disguised it by
acting like it was a
railroad when in reality it
was housed as a hiding
place for slaves.
 A few punishments
for conductors were
arrests, fines,
imprisonments, abuse
and deaths.
 Northern states like
Boston and Cincinnati
were the safest place
in the country and the
neighboring country
Canada.
Slavicek, Louise. Harriet Tubman and the
Underground Railroad. Farming Hills: Gale, 2006.
Print.
2) Deverell, William and Deborah White. “The
underground railroad.” United States History
Beginnings to 1877. Holt, 2007. Print.
1)
3)
Brannen, Daniel and Rebecca Valentine.
“Underground Railroad.” Detroit UXL 2009. US
History in Context. Web. 2 April 2013.
Seneca Falls Convention
Tyler Joyce and Riley Thompson
Early Problems
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended World’s Anti-Slavery
Convention in London, England
• Women weren’t allowed to participate
• Forced to sit behind a curtain
• Lloyd Garrison, who helped find the Anti-Slavery Society,
protested with them
• This treatment angered Stanton and her friend, Lucretia Mott
• They felt that men and women should be treated equally
• Called for equality in things such as marriage, voting, property
rights, and child custody rights
• This led to…
Seneca Falls Convention
• First public meeting about women’s rights
held in the United States
• Opened on July 19th, 1848 in Seneca Falls,
New York
• About 240 people attended
Declaration of Sentiments
• The convention organizers wrote a Declaration
of Sentiments, which detailed beliefs about
social injustice towards women
• Used Declaration of Independence for basis of
its language
• Authors included 18 charges against men
• Nearly 100 people signed it
5-11 TEMPERANCE
ALCOHOL #DEATH
BY: Meghan Quinlan, Kasey Taylor, and Alexandria Quinlan
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Seventeenth and eighteenth century
Drinking was frequent
Every meal
Children and adults
Uses for alcohol
Alternative use
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Worries about the effects of alcohol
Worries led to the temperance movement
Persuade people
Reformers wanted a limit
American temperance Union
Minister Lyman Beecher
• 5,000 state and local Temp
societies
• Between 1800 and 1830 rose
• Maine banned the ability to
purchase altogether
• 1 million members
• 1840s rates had fallen
WORKS CITED
Deverell, William and Deborah Gray White. United states
History : Beginnings to 1877. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 2007. Print.
Claybaugh,Amanda.“Temperance.”AmericanHistory
through literature 1820-1870. U.S. History in context. Web.
1 April 2013.
McNeese, Tim. Early National America 1790-1850. New
York: Infobase Publishing, 2010. Print.
All images obtained from Google Images
5-13
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By: Henry Black, Jack Breithaupt
And Matt Rowen
Facts from Book
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Harriet Beecher Stowe had five children
She wrote four newspaper
She lived in Connecticut before she moved to Ohio
Saw and met fugitive slaves across the Ohio River
Took her from February 1851 to June 5, 1851 to write
the book
Facts from Database
• Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a protest
against the compromise of 1850
• The novel sold 50,000 copies in the first two
months and 300,000 in the first year
Facts from Textbook
• Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the anti-slavery novel to inform the public
about the wronging's of slavery
• Lyman Beecher was the Connecticut minister and father to Harriet
• She lived in Connecticut until she moved to Ohio at age 21
• In Ohio she met slaves and learned about their hardships.
• Her fictional book was about a slave name Tom who was taken from his
wife and sold to slavery. His new owners beats him to death.
• The novel made the South angry, and the North scared.
• It was supposed to be said that Lincoln said that Harriet was “the little
lady who started this big war.”
Works Cited
• Deverel, William and Debra Gray White.
United States History: Beginning to 1877.
Orlando: Holt, Rinehart, 2007. Print.
• Jakoubek, Robert E. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
New York: Chelsea House. 1989. Print.
• Weinstein, Cindy. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
American at War. U.S History in Context.
Web. 2 April 2013.