The Industrial Revolution

How it began

• The revolution originally began in Britain
• British inventors found new sources of power
• They used flowing streams and lots of coal
• Then power driven machines were created
• This led to the creation of the first factories

Coming to america

• US was hard pressed to find another source of money
• Trade kept stopping, so did income
• A British Immigrant started the first textile factory
• Was mechanized and industrialized
• New England needed industrialization

HOW it worked

• Events made this possible in the US
• Interchangeable parts of machines made this happen
• Factories took industry out homes and shops
• The factory system allowed mass production
• All this added to the Revolution

ARRIVING IN AMERICA

• 3 Bostonian inventors improved this process
• They had mechanized all three steps
• This made young people flood to Boston to work
• Turned town of Lowell into business center
• People flocked to MA to find work

Affecting AMerica

• Effected each region differently
• South had an agricultural effect
• North had an industrial effect

NORTH

• North became and industrial producer
• Factories began popping up all over
• Had found their new source of income
• Some farming continued in Northeast

SOuth

• Had always been more agricultural
• Invention of cotton gin revolutionized farming
• Invented by Eli Whitney
• Changed the way the South farmed

AGRICULTURal differences

NORTHERN FARMING

• Northern farms were much smaller and family owned
• They grew crops easy to grow, such as corn or wheat
• Industrial Revolution made it easy to transport these goods
• Also raised animals such as cattle

Southern Farming

• The cotton gin made it much easier to grow cotton
• Became the main cash crop of the South
• This new crop required workers
• This Revived the Slave Trade
• # of Slaves grew by a large amount

UNIFYING AMERICA

• President Madison wanted to unify the nation
• Felt that America needed to be self sufficient
• Henry Clay and John C.Calhoun rallied behind him
• Called this idea the American System

The American System

• Develop transportation systems
• Complete other internal imporvements
• Establish a protective tax
• Resurrect the National Bank

OTHER INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

• Steam locomotive built, made transport easier
• Started building roads, railroads, and canals
• Erie Canal connected Atlantic Ocean to Great Lakes
• Made New York a dominant port City

Tariffs and the National BAnk

• Tariffs got rid of price advantage that foreign goods had
• also help pay for internal improvements
• Called the Tariff of 1816