Notes 3B: Transportation, Industrial Revolution
Notes:
growth of factories created jobs and led to an increase in European immigration to the United States
in the 1840s, millions of Irish and Germans immigrated to America
Immigrants worked in low-paying New England factories or moved west as farmers
Rapid immigration led to hostility and prejudice
the Know-Nothing party was formed in the 1850s to restrict immigration and immigrant voting rights
Rapid growth in the west
West became the bread basket
Henry Clay’s American system helped connect the South, North, and West
American System created a tariff to promote Northern industry
Farmers in the south and the west could get their goods to market by using rivers and oven-based shipping
but no rivers connected eastern factories
private companies, state gov’s, and the national gov invested in road construction
Eli Whitney’s development of interchangeable parts and new textile technologies led to an Industrial Revolution in the North
Samuel Slater used British industrial designs to build the first American textile factories
America was Ubanized
Dates:
1851: Irish Potato Famine
1800-1840: National Market Economy
1830’s: Railroad construction had first began
1860: railroads were the dominant means of transportation in America
Vocab:
Nativism: prejudice towards immigrants by the native-born
Lowell girls - Young women from the country who worked in factories and lived in boarding houses
Notes 3B: Transportation, Industrial Revolution
Notes:
growth of factories created jobs and led to an increase in European immigration to the United States
in the 1840s, millions of Irish and Germans immigrated to America
Immigrants worked in low-paying New England factories or moved west as farmers
Rapid immigration led to hostility and prejudice
the Know-Nothing party was formed in the 1850s to restrict immigration and immigrant voting rights
Rapid growth in the west
West became the bread basket
Henry Clay’s American system helped connect the South, North, and West
American System created a tariff to promote Northern industry
Farmers in the south and the west could get their goods to market by using rivers and oven-based shipping
but no rivers connected eastern factories
private companies, state gov’s, and the national gov invested in road construction
Eli Whitney’s development of interchangeable parts and new textile technologies led to an Industrial Revolution in the North
Samuel Slater used British industrial designs to build the first American textile factories
America was Ubanized
Dates:
1851: Irish Potato Famine
1800-1840: National Market Economy
1830’s: Railroad construction had first began
1860: railroads were the dominant means of transportation in America
Vocab:
Nativism: prejudice towards immigrants by the native-born
Lowell girls - Young women from the country who worked in factories and lived in boarding houses
