Balancing the New Nation - Industrial Revolution

The greatly increased production of goods resulting from the use of

power driven machinery

The Industrial Revolution

The greatly increased production of goods resulting from the use of power driven machinery

IR comes to US bc (people)

Eli Whitney and Samuel Slater

Eli Whitney

made musket w interchangeable parts (beginning of mass production)

made musket w interchangeable

parts

Eli Whitney - beginning of

mass production

Samuel Slater

brought first machine from Britain, memorized, first mill in Pawtucket RI

Brings over the first machines from

Britain

Memorizes how to build the machine and opens a — working with the thread

factory

creates first mill in

Pawtucket, RI

— became the new center of industry

Factories

Mass production

production of goods in large quantities

goods available at — prices

lower

What were once — items became part of everyday life

luxury

Became the early center of the industrial revolutions in America

New England

Income from shipping and foreign trade

gave them capital to invest in the machines and factories

Abundant power for machines

water

First factory built by

Francis Cabot Lowell, Nathan Appleton, Patrick Tracy Jackson

Lowell, Appleton, and Jackson created a factory with

all parts of the textile process in one place

Where the first factory built by Lowell, Appleton, and Jackson was

Waltham, MA

Factory owners buy land and build factories in — named after — (last name)

Lowell

Two Economic Systems

Agriculture in the North and Southern Farming

Growth of cities lead to

less room for farms

North had — farms, no need for — labor

small, slave

did not grow well in the northern states

Cash crops

Northern citizens voiced religious and political opposition to

slavery

Northern citizens voiced — and — opposition to slavery

religious,political

By —, almost every northern state had abolished —

1804, slavery

(crop) great demand in the south

Cotton

Eli Whitney created the —

cotton gin

Cotton gin

separates seeds from cotton material

Made it possible for southern farmers to grow cotton for —

profit

Between 1790 to 1810 sales —

increased

Between 1790 to 1810 number of — increased

slaves