The Industrial Revolution

Development

• Many Factories were built
• Factories mass produced common goods
• Mass production is a result of machinery
• Machines repeat themselves

The Real Beginning

• The revolution began in Britain
• Inventors found ways to generate power
• They used coal and flowing streams
• Factories first built by British merchants

The Increase of Wealth

• Mass production increased wealth
• Profits were quickly made

Effect on the country

• New Englnd pushed for industry
• The south now had huge plantations
• Big cities in the north.

Textiles

• 3 Bostonians revolutionized textiles
• Created a machine
• Able to cover all stages of cloth making
• Used plans from and old English Mill
• Francis Cabot Lowell, Nathan Appleton, Patrick Tracy

The Split

• The country split into to sides
• The North-Cities
• The South-Farms

The NOrth

• Mainly Cities
• Small Farms with 2 crops or cattle
• Many roads,railways and canals
• Many Northern states abolished slavery

The South

• Mainly plantations and farms
• Cotton took over the South
• Cotton Gin Invented
• Slavery increased
• Cotton production increased

Plan to Unify

• Madison had 3 Major Points
• Develop Transportation systems
• Establish a Protective tariff
• Resurrect the National Bank
• Henry Clay promoted this as the American System

Tariffs

• Used to insure purchase of American Procuts
• Raised price on foreign goods
• North Accepted tariffs
• South did not accept tariffs

Internal Improvements

• 1st Steam Locomotive was created
• Roads and Canals were improoved
• Many states built turnpikes
• The National Road
• The Erie Canal

Movement and Region

• Roads were manly used to travel
• Canals were not as used as roads
• More transportation routes in the North

2nd Bank of U.S

• Many agreed it would benefit all
• Made currency acceptable nation wide
• Easy business between regions