1. U.S. History Objective 2.03

2. Objective 2.03
Distinguish between the economic and social issue that led to sectionalism and nationalism.

3. Industrial Revolution
Social and economic reorganization that took place as machines took the place of hand tools – large scale factory production developed in the north (New England)
Begun in Great Britain

5. Industrial Revolution influences
Eli Whitney
Interchangeable parts

6. Plantation System South – fueled by slave labor
Turned the South into a Cotton Kingdom (after the cotton gin)

7. Who else influenced agriculture?
John Deere – invented the steel plow, allowed farmers on Great Plains to more easily plow through tough, dry soil

10. Cyrus McCormick
Invented automatic reaper in 1840s, allowed fewer laborers to harvest more acres of wheat, caused many farm workers to move to cities.

12. How did people transport their crops?
Through internal improvements – transportation, etc.

14. Examples of Internal Improvements?
Erie Canal – opened in 1825, linked Lake Erie to the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River

17. How did one travel on canals?
Steamboat
1st commercial steamboat built by Robert Fulton (Clermont)

18. Clermont

19. How did people communicate over long distances?
Telegraph
Invented (1837) by Samuel Morse. Vastly increased the speed of communication across great distances.

22. First Message
1844 – Washington to Baltimore
What hath God wrought.”