Warm Up
Grab Primary Source Reading and a
Copy of Song Lyrics
Prepare for Notes
The Improvement of the Interior
The Era of Good Feelings (Cont’d)
Turnpikes
• The National Road
• Cumberland MD
• As far West as Illinois
Steam Travel
• Steam boats moved people and goods faster
on waterways in the United States
• Steamboats would carry people on many of
the nations rivers such as the Mississippi and
Hudson
Railroads
• First commercial
railroads open in the
1830’s
• Spurred Growth in iron
and later steel industries
• Country needed more
track
Canals
• Water transportation faster than land travel
• Many canal companies started in the
Northeast
• Charged for travel on canal
The Erie Canal
• Connected Great Lakes
to Atlantic Ocean
• Hudson River to Lake
Erie
• Completed October 26
1825
Primary Source Reading
• Read Aloud!
• “Traveling the Erie
Canal”
Time to SING!!!
• “Erie Canal”
• Popular Folk Song from the time about
traveling the Erie Canal
• Let’s listen to the Boss Perform
Learning From Music
• What can we learn from the song “Erie
Canal”?
• What do the lyrics tell us about life during this
time period?
Review Sheet Review
• Take out your Test Review Sheets
• Do you have any questions?
• Remember: These will be collected tomorrow
at the start of the test for a HW grade.
Warm Up!
• On A Piece of Paper
• Write a paragraph summary as to why the
period from the 1820’s to 1830’s is known as
the Era of Good Feelings.
Warm Up
• Grab a Primary Source Packet and Read
• While reading consider this question…
• How did technology contribute to the national
mood during the Era of Good Feelings?
• When finished reading please put packet back
onto front table.
Industrialization
Growth of the Nation
What is Industrialization?
• We hear the term often. But what does it
mean?
• What do you think industrialized or
industrialization means?
Industrialization
• The switch from an agriculturally based
economy and society to an economy based
upon factory production and a society based
on owning the means of production
History of Industrialization
• Began in England
• Many of the technologies stolen from England
• Took hold in New England
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Many water sources
Subsistence Farming
Large labor supply
Ports
Lowell: Case Study of
Industrialization
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Lowell, Massachusetts
Near two rivers
Birthplace of US Industrialization
Textile Mills
Textiles
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Need cheap labor
Repetitive task
Power Loom and Spinning Jenny
Often Dangerous
Competitive
Long Hours
Textiles in Lowell
• Lowell first to hire women
• Lowell System
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Boarding House
Young unmarried girls
Sign contract for 1-3 years
Clean Work Environment
Strict curfews
Mandated church attendance
Provided their workers with a healthy diet
Lowell Life
• Women often banded together
• Wrote their own Publications Lowell Life
• Birth of Labor Unions
• Primary Source:
• Harriet Hanson Robinson
Creative Time
• Take a Piece of Blank Printer Paper
• Divide in Half (Hot Dog Fold)
• Draw and Contrast Agrarian versus Industrial
Review
• What is Industrialization?
• Compare an Industrial Society with an
Agricultural Society
• How did America gain Industrial
Technology?