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“A REVOLUTION IN INDUSTRY”

Chapter 12 Section 1. “A REVOLUTION IN INDUSTRY”. 1789 – Slater arrives from Britain and builds the first spinning jenny This began America’s Industrial Revolution. Industrial Revolution - the shift of production from hand tools to machines from homes to factories.

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“A REVOLUTION IN INDUSTRY”

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  1. Chapter 12 Section 1 “A REVOLUTION IN INDUSTRY”

  2. 1789 – Slater arrives from Britain and builds the first spinning jenny • This began America’s Industrial Revolution. • Industrial Revolution- the shift of production from hand tools to machines from homes to factories. Industrial revolution in the u.s.

  3. SpiNningJenNy

  4. Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin in 1793 • Led to increased production of cotton that mills needed • Made it a cash crop • cleaned 50 times as much cotton in a day than a worker could by hand. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin

  5. The Cotton Gin

  6. Before the cotton gin, slaves picked out seeds out of raw cotton • It was slow work, planters said that they could not make a profit growing cotton COTTON KINGDOM

  7. Now they could • Southern farmers moved westward, looking for new lands to plant in cotton. • Slavery became an important part of the new “cotton kingdom”. Cotton Kingdom

  8. In the late 1790’s Eli Whitney pioneered mass production. • Mass production- using machines to make goods faster and cheaper than could be made by hand. • Used interchangeable parts Spurring industrial growth

  9. The federal government helped American business grow. • Congress created a new national bank which gave out loans to businesses and passed a protective • Protective tariff- a tax placed on imported goods • Why do you issue a protective tariff? The Growth of business

  10. Chapter 12 section 2 “New Forms Of Transportation”

  11. Transportation in the North • 1806 National Road – ran across the Appalachian Mountains • First federally funded roads • Monroe vetoes bill in 1816 for more roads

  12. Ships and Canals • Steamboat by Fulton • 1817 – Erie Canal • 363 miles • Hudson River to Lake Erie • First all water link between Central farms and East Coast cities

  13. Robert Fulton

  14. The Clermont

  15. Dewitt Clinton

  16. Rails in the North • Steam-powered locomotives • Laying tracks in the 1840s is the biggest business in the North • By 1860, more than 20,000 miles of rail existed

  17. Transporting in the South • Shipped mostly by rivers • Steam powered river boats • Cotton is loaded directly there • Causes cities to pop up along waterways • Rails in 1860: 10,000 in the South

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