The Industrial Revolution
Published on Dec 14, 2015
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Early Revolution
- The American Industry was growing steadily.
- The war of 1812 and Thomas Jeffersons Embargo stopped its growth.
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The beginning
- Began when 3 Bostinians mechanized cloth making in Waltham, Massachusetts.
- Helped America start mass production.
- Helped the growth of America as a whole.
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Wealth
- The U.S. became very wealthy at this time.
- The north specifically flourished.
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clothing
- At first they made clothes straight from the thread which tok forever.
- they then found that they could make cloth with the thread to speed up the process.
- they would sew bigger pieces of cloth together to make clothes.
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North agriculture
- Agriculture was declining in the North.
- Markets led the farmers to grow only certain things.
- ex. one farmer grew corn and another grew potatoes.
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south agriculture
- The land in the south was much harder to work than that in the north
- Therefore slaves were used to pick the fields.
- Cotton was the main product in the south.
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North manufacturing
- Land was easily manipulated by self sufficient farmers.
- Then when markets emerged the farmers would specialize in one product .
- they would then trade for what they needed at the market.
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SOUTH MANUFAcTURING
- In the south the landowners owned slaves that worked the fields for them.
- They did not do it themselves because the fields were hard to work in.
- Their slaves also worked machines such as the cotton gin.
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madison's plan
- Madison wanted to establish a means of transportation across the nation.
- He wanted to establish a protective tariff.
- He wanted to resurrect the national bank.
- It became known as the "American System" as explained by Henry Clay.
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economic interests
- established a form of currency accepted across the nation.
- The North would manufacture what the south and west would farm.
- It would then sell back the goods to the south or west or trade for grains and meats.
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tariffs
- after the war of 1812 british goods stockpiled and sold for way less than american goods
- Madison and lay put a tariff on imports so the american merchants would have the upper hand.
- The tariff revenues would go towards roads bridges and transportation projects.
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internal improvements
- The government made trade better because the provided transportation,
- they built better roads, and bridges, and eventually a railroad system.
- Without this the small farmers in the west would not have been able to participate in trade.
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