SECTION 3

By: Sara, Jonissa, Jakob, Max and Beck

TERMS

Interchangeable parts- are parts that are for practical purposes

identical

An organized association of workers, often in a trade or

profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests

A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a

form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or

concessions

ERIE CANAL

Big part in transportation

Provided a way for goods to travel to different

places

Provided jobs for people

ROADS AND TURNPIKES

1806 the nation took first steps toward

transportation

Congress funded the building of major east-west

highway

The national road in 1811 laborers started cutting

the road bed westward from the Potomac River at

Cumberland, Maryland

STEAM BOATS AND CANALS

Rivers offered a faster, more efficient, and cheaper

way to move goods than did roads

The steam boast changed all of that

In 1807 Robert Fulton and T. Robert R. Livingston

stunned the nation when the Clermont chugged 150

miles from New York to Albany

THE “IRON HORSE”

Another mode of transportation was railroads

Peter cooper built an American engine based on

the ones developed in great Britain

1930 coopers tiny but powerful locomotive Tom

Thump pulled the first load of passengers

NEW SYSTEM OF PRODUCTIONS

A new revolution occurred in business and industry

The industrial revolution

This began in Britain in the middle 1700s

INDUSTRIALIZATION SWEEPS THE NORTH

Industry developed quickly in the united states in

the early 1800s

This happened for several reasons

The most important factor was the free enterprise

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES

A wave of inventions and technological innovations

spurred the nation’s industrial growth

Eli Whitney popularized the concept of

interchangeable parts

Changed gun making from the one by one process

into a factory process

RISE OF LARGE CITIES

Industrialization of the united states led to a lot of

people looking for factory jobs

Looked for higher wages

Made workers go up to 1.3 million by 1860

WORKERS BEGIN TO ORGANIZE

Industrial boom created a new source of labor

The factory worker

Ones with higher wages

Cities populations doubled even tripled in size

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1804 1813 1818 1819 1820 1824 1825 1826 1834 1842 1844

The Transportation RevolutionWagon rates canal rates railroad ratesDownstream river rates Upstream river rates

ROADS, CANALS, AND RAILROADS

1820-1840 view of lock port in New York on the

Erie Canal

PETER COOPERS TOM THUMB RACES A HORSE -ALSO A YOUNG

MILL WORKER

THE FAMILY FARM

Even though industries and cities expanded in

1800

Agriculture remained the countries leading

economic activity

Farming employed more people and produced

more than other workers

THE END