1. Forging the National Economy 1790-1860

2. The Industrial Revolution Overview
Textile Industry –
Great Britain
Factory System
Improved Transportation
and Communications

3. U.S. Resistance to Industrialization
Population Density - Urban Areas
Western Lands
Capital Investments
Raw Materials
Secrets kept by Europeans

4. Early Industrialization in U.S.
Waltham, Massachusetts – the birth of the Lowell System and the beginning of the industrial revolution in the United States
Water Power - Steam Power
Samuel Slater
Moses Brown
Eli Whitney

5. Impact of Factory System
Firearms Industry
Principle of Interchangeable Parts
Elias Howe - Isaac Singer
Samuel F.B. Morse
Birth of Industrial Corporations
Limited Liability
State Charters

6. Labor Conditions Depersonalization Child - Female Labor
Martin Van Buren
Commonwealth v. Hunt

7. Western Farms as Part of the National Economy
Transportation Problems
Ohio Valley - Cotton South Connection
Steamboats
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick

8. More Efficient Transportation Systems
Turnpikes
Steamboats - Keelboats
Robert Fulton
Canals - Erie Canal, 1825
Railroads
North-West Connection

9. Western Frontier – Birthplace for American Character
Alleghenies
Alexis de Tocqueville

10. The Influence Urban Areas on the American Character

11. Immigration as an Influence on the American Character
Irish - Urban Folk - Tammany Hall
Germans - Prosperous Farmers

12. Anti-Foreign Reactions
Religious Intolerance
Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, 1849