National and Regional Growth Early Industry and Invention

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National and Regional GrowthEarly Industry and
Invention
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Around 1800 a lot of big changes were starting to
take place in the world and in America.

• Most of them centered around new inventions.
• In the world this was a time called the
  Industrial Revolution (4).

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One immigrant had new methods for improving
textile production

• Samuel Slater

• Had lived in England and had worked in a textile
  mill.
• Those kinds of people were not allowed to leave
  England they didnt want their secrets to get
  out.
• He did sneak out and came to America and started
  the first textile mill in the U.S.

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Because of these new machines, Americans could do
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• They could make a lot of cloth and make it
  quicker and easier than ever before.
• They didnt have to buy textiles from England any
  more and those profits could go back to
  Americans.

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Some of these factories were HUGE

• This factory system (5) started in New England.
• They needed workers for these mills a LOT of
  workers
• For the first time in America, people started
  moving off farms and into cities.

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These factories hired either

• Families who would all be part of a factory
  town
• Even the kids would work they had smaller hands
  to work with some of the machines.

• Young women who would end up living in a
  dormitory at/near the factory.
• They were watched closely at work and even
  after work (had to follow strict rules, go to
  church, obey company policies)

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Another important idea

• Eli Whitney (16) was given the responsibility of
  producing guns for the army.
• Every gun was made individually and each might be
  made just a little bit different than the other.
• He thought of a better way interchangeable
  parts where parts were made separately and then
  assembled. This speeded up production, made
  repairs easier, and allowed factories to open
  where he could give people jobs.

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Then came the Steamboat(Part of the
Transportation Revolution)

• Robert Fulton (22) developed a steamboat that
  could go upstream or against the current.
• Later an even more powerful paddleboat/steamboat
  was invented.

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And for communication came(The Communications
Revolution)

• The telegraph (24) Samuel Morse.
• Messages came in electrical signals which could
  be decoded into letters and words.
• People could now communicate quickly throughout
  the country (or wherever they could put telegraph
  wires).

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And we cant forget about farmers

• New machines were invented to make farming easier
  and increase production.
• One of these was the steel plow invented by
  John Deere
• (yeah that guy)

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And more farm tools

• Reapers
• Threshing machines
• Mechanical grain drills

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You havent noticed it, but

• This affects the whole country

• Midwest farmers would grow more food to feed
  Northeast factory workers.
• Midwest farmers needed things made in
  Northeastern factories.
• Southerners needed to grow more cotton to supply
  New England textile mills.

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After the War of 1812there started to be
struggles in America between ideas of
nationalism and ideas of sectionalism

• Nationalism (39/41) a feeling of pride in your
  country.

• Sectionalism (51/56) a feeling that your
  section of the country is more important than
  other sections of the country.

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Americans especially began to want better
transportation systems(the transportation
revolution)

• Congress had already started building a national
  road(43) all the way to Illinois

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A lot of Canals were dug

• The Erie Canal (44) was one of the more famous
• This linked the East Coast to the Great Lakes and
  the Midwest

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But there were problems between sections of the
country

• Missouri wanted to be added to the country as a
  new state.
• It could be either a slave state, or a free
  state.
• At the time the country had 11 free and 11 slave
  states.

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• It was decided to let Missouri enter the Union as
  a slave state.
• But only at the same time that Maine would be
  added as a free state.

• This agreement is called The Missouri
  Compromise (61).

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Another issue at this same time was

• In Latin America there was a plan to help Spain
  and Portugal get back some of their lost
  colonies.
• There were even some Russian colonies being set
  up all the way from Alaska to near where San
  Francisco is today.

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President Monroe issued a statement to the world
(called The Monroe Doctrine (63))

• He said the Americas were closed to further
  expansion and settlement.
• He warned these other countries that wed protect
  our interests here.
• He also promised the United States wouldnt
  interfere with anything that went on in Europe.

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