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The Industrial Revolution: The Transportation Revolution: - Person New Inventions: “Yankee Ingenuity” Americans were willing to try anything, they were first copiers, then innovators Invention What does it do? The Northern Industrial “Juggernaut” - Samuel Slater Business friendly climate: Francis Cabot Lowell - Laissez faire: What’s happening in America by the 1850s? - Regional specialization East = South = Immigrants: - Coming from where? - Going where? - Know-Nothing Party / American Party / Nativist: West = - - - - Notes: The transportation revolution o Turnpike o National road o Erie Canal System (map of principal canals of the 1840s) o Steamboat – robert fulton o Clipper ships o Railroads – immigrant labor (irish in the north east) New Inventions: “Yankee Ingenuity” o Ameircans were willing to try anything o They were first copiers, then innovators o Cotton Gin – eli whitney o Interchangeable parts – eli whitney o Steel plow – john deere o Mechanical reaper – cyrus mccormick o Telegraph – Samuel f.b. morse o Transatlantic cable – cyrus field o Sewing machine – elias howe & Isaac singer The Northern Industiral “Juggernaut” o Creating a business friendly climate Supreme court rulings: Fltcher v peck Darthmouth v woodward Mcculloch v Maryland Gibbons v ogden Laissez faire – govt did much to assist capitalism o Samuel slater “father of the factory system” o Francis cabot Lowell – textile plant Lowell Mill Lowell girls What’s happening in America by the 1850s? o Regional specialization East = industrial South = cotton & slavery West = the nation’s “breadbastket” o American population (map in 1860) o National origin of immigrants: 1820-1860 (chart) o Know-Nothing Party (American Party or Nativist) Anti immigrant therefore anti alcohol (temperance movement)