THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

THE START OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

• The Industrial Revolution first began in Great Britain
• In the 18th century inventors found new ways to generate power
• They used swiftly flowing streams and bountiful supplies of coal

THE START OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION CONTINUED

• Inventors also developed power driven machinery
• They found new ways to use this machinery to mass produce goods
• This then led to the building of factories by British merchants
• Soon after the nation started to industrialize

DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN INDUSTRY

• New approaches to manufacturing led to factories in America
• The factory system made mass production possible
• These huge changes in manufacturing brought about an industrial revolution

TRADE IN AMERICA

• The primary source of income in America was international trade, not manufacturing
• Two events turned the attention of Americans towards the industries and they were
• 1. The passage of President Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo Act of 1807
• 2. And the War of 1812
• Then manufacturing began to be a lot more popular through these events

MANUFACTURING IN THE NORTH

• Cash crops did not grow well in the Northern soil and climate
• Northeasterners invested their capital in factories and manufacturing
• The North had not eliminated agriculture and only used it for their own needs
• the type of land and the growth of cities in the North encouraged farmers to cultivate smaller farms
• And the north only grew crops that did not require much labor to flourish

MANUFACTURING IN THE SOUTH

• The South had little incentive to industrialize
• Southerners had begun to reap huge profits from cotton by the mid-1790s
• The North and the South continued to develop two distinct economies with very different agricultural systems

MANUFACTURING IN THE SOUTH CONTINUED

• In 1793 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
• It made it possible for Southern farmers to grow short-staple cotton for a profit
• It set the South on a different course of development from the North
• Increases in cotton production and increases in the number of slaves owned

MADISON'S PLAN TO UNIFY THE NATION

• Madison had three major points in his plan
• 1. developing transportation systems and other internal improvements
• 2. establishing a protective tariff
• 3. resurrecting the national bank

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