Day 43: Industrial RevolutionBaltimore Polytechnic Institute

November 3, 2010A.P. U.S. History

Mr. Green

Objective: Explain why America was relatively slow to embrace the industrial revolution and the factory.Describe the early development of the factory system and Eli Whitney’s system of interchangeable parts.Outline early industrialism’s effects on workers, including women and children.

AP Focus With industrialization, comes despair for the wage laborer, which gives rise to labor organizing. Because they are a cheap form of labor, women penetrate the industrial workplace.The nation’s economy matures and diversifies as people are increasingly tied to trade, industry, and commercial farming. Historians refer to this development as the Market Revolution.In the early nineteenth century, the American economy developed the beginnings of industrialization. The greatest advances occurred in transportation, as canals and railroads bound the Union together into a continental economy with strong regional specialization.

Industrial Revolution

CHAPTER THEMEIndustrialization was mainly a northern phenomenon. The

southern economy was comparatively stagnant and lacked diversity. Consequently, the two dominant classes, the industrial and merchant capitalist in the North and the planter-slaveholder in the South, wanted political and economic regulations and laws contrary to the other’s needs. For example, northern manufacturers favored a high protective tariff, which was not in the interest of the planter-slaveholders.

The economic interdependence between the Northeast and the West would play a role in the debate over the expansion of slavery. This relationship grew so strong that the regions would ally against the Confederacy—keep in mind, the AP theme Slavery and Its Legacies in North America.

Chapter Focus

Focus Questions Due for Chapter 12 by Friday.

Submit Presidential Election Charts 1800, 1804, 1808, and 1796 for extra credit.

Decades Chart for the 1810’s due by Friday Submit position on entering into war with

France and primary source analysis around the Louisiana Purchase.

Announcements

Trans-Allegheny regionCornJohn DeereCyrus McCormick

How did the changes to agriculture impact farming, settlement and the economy?

Agricultural Revolution

Methods of travelWater-Steamboat in 1807StagecoachesTurnpike

Explain the arguments for and against the federal funding of roads and canalsErie Canal-Who paid for this and why?

Highways and Steamboats

The train system had many flaws in the early years

track gaugebrakesfire

The U.S. government granted large land tracts to the RR companies for development-a subsidy

Explain the social, cultural, and economic impact of trains within the United States?

Iron Horse

Anglo-American-Canadian venture for a trans-Atlantic cable

Clipper shipsfaster delivery times

Pony Express18 month adventure

Cables, Clippers, Pony Riders

Construct a diagram that illustrates the continental economy that emerged on the eve of the Civil War. Be sure to identify the different regions of the United States with their specialization and the means in which commerce traversed these different regions.

Exit Ticket

Continue Reading Chapter 14 to the end Explain the Market Revolution that occurred

in the United States during the 1840’s and 1850’s. Be sure to include the role of Roger Taney and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Work on focus questions for Chapter 12 that are now due

Continue work on the Decades chart and Presidential Election charts for the 1800’s and 1810’s that are over due

Homework