America on the Move

3 Areas of Change...1. Industry

2. Inventions3. Geography Effects

IndustrySamuel Slater &

Francis Cabot Lowell

Brought smuggled plans back from England to create textile mills

Created $$$ for the U.S. through trade

Factories offered 2 things to the American worker:

1.) A source of income

2.) Creation of Mills communities

Very significant for young women.

Lowell Mills

Large, city-like area where young girls 9-15 years could live and work until marriage.

Earned $2.00 a week All room, board, food

included Monitored “Marm”

2 Advantages

Gave farm girls an out so they could earn money for a “good marriage”

Allowed freedom for these young women never known before

2 Disadvantages

Extremely dangerous area to work, often lost fingers, limbs and lives

Money they earned they could not keep—only a man could claim it.

2. Inventions

Remember to fill in your notes of who invented what and how did it help the U.S.

Steamboat Robert Fulton

inventor Able to carry more

Cargo for increased trade

People Helped increase

profits

Telegraph Samuel Morse Able to send

communications across long distances faster & cheaper

Connected the U.S.

Steam-powered Tractor John Deere Used idea behind a

steamboat with coal to assist farmers

More crops, more farmers, more westward movement

Reaper Cyrus McCormick Furthered ease of

farming labor The reaper was

hand-held Quicker harvest

meant more lands to harvest

Cotton Gin Catherine Green & Eli

Whitney Interchangeable parts Helped increase the

cotton production in the Southern plantations

Increased trade for U.S. which meant higher $$$ in tax revenues

3.) Geographic Effects

Because of the inventions and the industrial revolution boom....

4 main effects that occurred

1...

Triggered wide spread westward movement

Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, and by 1840 Texas

2....

Cotton became the highest cash crop in the South

Cotton exports to Europe increase 150% in a decade

3....

Native Americans were driven off lands used for Mills, farms, and

plantations

4...

Slavery increased by 2.5 million in 40 years

Slavery was abolished in 1808 after that any child born from a slave mother was considered a slave