INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Agriculture in the North

• told to make small farms and produce only what is needed
• farmers would grow crops to sell in the markets for big profits
• slaves were unnecessary because crops required not much labor

Agriculture in the South

• Cotton gin is produced
• farmers begin buying land from all over to produce cotton
• slavery expands because land owners need more workers

INDUSTRIALIZATION

• Samuel Slater creates a textile factory
• mechanizes all stages of creating cloth
• specialized in creating thread
• families begin to move into these cities looking for work
• farms begin to decline

SLAVERY

The American System

Mr. President

• produces plan to make nation self-sufficient
• Three major points:
• 1. developing transportation systems and other improvements
• 2. establish a protective tariff
• 3. resurrect a national bank

WHAT WAS CLAY'S IMPACT?

• rallies behind Madison and names his idea the American system
• he brainstorms and finds out the following:
• 1. north will produce goods that the south and west will need
• 2. south and west will produce grain, meat, and cotton needed in north
• national bank will create a nationally accepted currency

WHAT INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS?

• Different regions wanted to do business with each other
• The steam locomotive was built in 1825
• Fast and could operate in sever weather
• The Erie Canal was created to pass through major regions
• Connected from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes

TARIFFS

• British goods were cheaper than American goods
• Tariffs increased cost of foreign goods
• Forced people to buy American goods
• Raised money for internal improvements

NATIONAL BANK

• Second Bank of the United States (BUS)
• Make a nationally accepted currency
• Easier to conduct business around the country

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