1. Do Now
See if you can identify the items in the pictures. Once you have done that, see if you can figure out how they might all be related.

2. II. Market Revolution
Objective 2.03

3. A. Economic Policy
The American economy grew rapidly partially because of new government policy:
Henry Clay’s American System:
Clay – Speaker of the House of Representatives
Economic development program that included:
1) tariffs to help industry
2) a national bank to stabilize the economy
3) transportation projects to build commerce and trade.
Impact: Economic growth and more nationalism.

4. A. Economic Policy
Result: Massive increase in transportation in the form of canals and railroads.

5. B. Innovations
Industrial Revolution: a shift from making goods by hand to making them with machines.
Leads to lots of new inventions that affect the South and the North differently:
Steamboat: designed by Robert Fulton to use rivers and canals sea transportation. Allowed people and goods to travel further.
Cotton gin: created by Eli Whitney to pull fibers from cotton faster and be ready for manufacturing.
Interchangeable parts: products all contain the same style of parts, so they are easy to make and put together.
Impact: Created more trade and improves the economy, but does so in different ways for the North and South.

6. C. Rise of Northern Factories
Why do you think there are so many factories in the North rather than the South?

7. C. Rise of Northern Factories

8. C. Rise of Northern Factories
Because of the Embargo Act and the War of 1812, the U.S. was forced to manufacture their own goods – the American System helped new manufacturing grow.
How?
Workers:
Lowell System – recruits mostly young women and gives them a dormitory to live in.
Children as young as 7
New Immigrants – particularly the Irish and Germans

9. C. Rise of Northern Factories

10. D. Continuance of Southern Agriculture
Enormous growth in the production of cotton between and 1860.
Why?
Reason 1:
Reason 2:

11. E. Effects of the Market Revolution
Women: more opportunity for employment – begin gaining more control over their lives.
Economic opportunity: wages increase, but the more wealthy benefit more. However, the U.S. had greater economic opportunities than Europe.
Growth of Slavery: most thought slavery would die out, but the cotton gin creates dramatic growth in the slave population.

12. Guided Practice What is the trend in the US slave population?
Slave Populations
1800
1830
1860
New York
20,613 75
Maryland
106,635
102,994
87,189
Virginia
346,671
469,767
490,865
Georgia
59,699
217,531
462,198
Alabama
117,549
435,080
Mississippi
65,659
436,631
Arkansas
4,576
111,115
All
893,605
2,009,043
3,953,760
What is the trend in the US slave population?
Which states have the biggest changes? Why do you think that is?

13. Independent Practice
Imagine you are an American business owner living in the early 1800s. You are writing a newspaper article that explains how your business has been affected by innovation. Your article should be sentences.

14. Exit Ticket
The growth of American industry during the early 1800s resulted from all of the following developments EXCEPT:
technology imported from England.
the appearance of better transportation systems.
direct monetary assistance from the federal government to new factories.
new inventions such as the cotton gin.

15. Exit Ticket
2) The "Lowell System" refers to which of the following?
employment of young women who were then housed in dormitories.
chattel slavery.
worker's cooperatives.
an early American labor union.
a business organization with limited liability for its owners.

16. Exit Ticket
3) How were different groups of people affected by economic growth in the US? Use two different groups of people in your answer.