REGIONAL ECONOMIES

Trade Embargo

• Angry with France and Britain
• War of 1812
• Trade embargo on France and Britain

US ECONOMY IN TROUBLE

• No one to sell goods to
• Merchants and farmers suffering
• US in debt
• Bad economy

Industrial Revolution (origins)

• Great Britain
• Steam and coal powered machines
• Factories

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Industry Moves to America

• Northern states
• Textile Mills
• Assembly lines
• Southern involvement

Northern States

• New England 1st
• Needed to replace foreign trade
• Many factories and textile mills opened

TEXTILE MILLS

• Samuel Slater- First successful
• Only produced thread
• Still made the cloth by hand

Textile Mills Evolve

• 1813 three men built a weaving factory
• Used English knowledge
• All steps include to make textile

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Assembly Lines

• Many people lined up
• Do a specific, small task
• Mass production

Jobs

• Assmebly lines allowed many people to work
• Easy to do
• Woman
• Poverty decreases

Southern Involvement

• Textile companies needed cotton
• Southern farmers called on
• Few do because of its difficulty to harvest

Cotton Gin

• Eli Whitney
• seperated seeds from cotton
• made harvesting very easy
• made cotton cheap
• many farmers now grow it

North and South

• The north uses the Southern cotton
• North produces goods for south
• The American economy is without foreign intrest

Why It Matters

• America no longer relies on foreign trade
• Expensive products are not easy to make
• Many jobs created
• American economy is good

Agriculture in the North

• Grow items to offset southern cotton
• Corn and Grain
• Easy to harves
• No need for slaves

Slavory

• Cotton needed to be picked
• Slaves used
• South-for
• North-Against

Overall

• Industry reshaped America
• Helped economy
• trade not necessary
• northern and southern reliance
• Disagreement about slavory