The North

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The North The Industrial Revolution

• TCAPs IS SUPER PETTY. . .

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EQs

• What is the Industrial Revolution? (8.2 spi 8)
• How did urbanization, technology, and social
  change affect the country? (8.2 spi 8)

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This week

• Today Industrial Revolution
• Tuesday South and slavery
• Wednesday Review
• Thursday Quiz
• Friday Spring Break!!!!!!!!!

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F.O.A. (Bellwork)
Where is the Cumberland Gap located?
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Cumberland Gap

• Cumberland Gap (el. 1,600 ft (490 m)) is a pass
  through the Cumberland Mountains region of the
  Appalachian Mountains, also known as the
  Cumberland Water Gap, at the junction of the U.S.
  states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia.
  Famous in American history for its role as one
  key passageway through the lower central
  Appalachians, it was an important part of the
  Wilderness Road and is now part of the Cumberland
  Gap National Historical Park

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LCAP

• Well examine Nos. 2, 9 and 16 today.

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Question
Whats this?
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The Industrial Revolution

• Rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing
  in the mid-1700s
• Begins in Britain with the textile industry

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Slaters Mill

• Samuel Slater British mechanic who secretly
  fled Britain and started a textile mill in Rhode
  Island.

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Problem. . .

• Remember that in the 1790s the U.S. was about to
  go to war with France
• XYZ Affair
• U.S. didnt help them fight against Britain
• American guns were all handmade individually
  fixing them was hard and time consuming

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Good Ol Mr. Whitney

• Eli Whitney Most famous for the cotton gin, but
  also
• Interchangeable parts that were all the same size
  and fit perfectly
• Mass production of items using machines and
  interchangeable parts

Mass production be shakin it. Eli Whitney
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Impact of War of 1812

• British blockades forced Americans to buy goods
  made in American factories more and more
  factories built
• Many Americans began to see how dependent on
  Britain and other countries they had been

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The Rhode Island System

• Samuel Slater would hire entire families to work
  in his factories. Why?
• Apprentices left because the job was boring
• Families brought children who worked for little
  money

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The Lowell System

• Instead of families, Francis Lowell hired young,
  unmarried women to work in his factories
• Special loom that could spin thread and weave
  cloth in the same mill
• Also offered his workers education

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The Rise of Unions

• Factories could produce goods much faster than
  individual craftsmen began to lose money
• Factory workers began to get paid less as more
  people fought for factory jobs
• Unions formed to try to improve pay and working
  conditions

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Transportation Revolution

• Rapid growth in speed and convenience of travel
  because of new methods of transportation
• Robert Fulton the steamboat

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Railroads Locomotives

• 1840 2,800 miles of track in the U.S.
• 1860 30,000 miles of track in the U.S.
• Linked most major cities to each other
• Boosted Americas economy because more goods
  could be shipped farther and easier

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New Fuel

• Coal Burned hotter than wood more efficient
• Found mostly in the northern U.S. coal mining
  becomes very profitable thanks to railroads
• Used to make steel

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Other Inventions

• Samuel Morse Morse code telegraphs
• John Deere Steel plow
• Cyrus McCormick Mechanical reaper
• Isaac Singer Sewing machine

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Assignment

• Well make a cause and effect chart today.
• Copy these names/terms down
• 1) Richard Arkwright
• 2) Samuel Slater
• 3) Eli Whitney
• 4) Francis Cabot Lowell
• 5) Clermont
• 6) Gibbons v. Ogden
• 7) Samuel D. Morse (Morse Code)
• 8) John Deere
• 9) Cyrus McCormick

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Assignment

• Use pages 384-405 to complete the assignment.

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Cause and Effect
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