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NATION BUILDING Transportation Early Industrialization Early Factories Cotton Revolution Marshall Court.

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1 NATION BUILDING Transportation Early Industrialization Early Factories Cotton Revolution Marshall Court

2 Transportation Revolution Roads: public and private finance Roads: public and private finance Flatboats: hauled goods down river. Flatboats: hauled goods down river. Steam Boats: Robert Fulton- Hudson rout Steam Boats: Robert Fulton- Hudson rout –By 1815 steamers from New Orleans to Ohio. Canals: 1825 Erie Canal 364 miles, Canals: 1825 Erie Canal 364 miles, –Connected Miss/Ohio river to Atlantic. New York: “Emporium of America” New York: “Emporium of America” –Shipping from NY to Liverpool.

3 Erie Canal: 1818-1825, 364 miles

4 8 Preconditions for Industrialization Transportation: roads, canals, steamboats Transportation: roads, canals, steamboats Power: steam power replaces water Power: steam power replaces water Technological advances: iron and steel Technological advances: iron and steel Capital: BUS, private and state banks Capital: BUS, private and state banks Labor: immigration Labor: immigration Private property laws: Marshall court Private property laws: Marshall court Natural Resources Natural Resources Communication Communication

5 Early Factories Artisan and Home manufacturing Artisan and Home manufacturing “Putting out system” “Putting out system” British Industrial Revolution:1790 British Industrial Revolution:1790 New England Textile Factories New England Textile Factories –Francis Lowell (1813-1850) his was the – 1 st big U.S. Factory system Who workers ?: “Mill Girls” and Children Who workers ?: “Mill Girls” and Children –Then later, Immigrants Factory work: wage labor, repetitive tasks Factory work: wage labor, repetitive tasks Eli Whitney: proto assembly line, rifles Eli Whitney: proto assembly line, rifles

6 Cotton Revolution Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin 1793 Supply cotton for textile mills Revival of slavery: 10,000 bales in 1793, –4–4–4–400,000 bales of cotton produced in 1820 Cotton Belt: Louisiana Purchase American Colonization Society 1817 –R–R–R–Raised money to send slaves back to Africa –A–A–A–About 12,000 former slaves settled Liberia

7 John Marshall Court: 1801-1835 Judicial Review, Sanctity of contracts, Judicial Review, Sanctity of contracts, –economic growth, National laws supreme –over state laws Dartmouth v. Woodward (1819) Dartmouth v. Woodward (1819) –Sanctity of contracts, SC reviews state laws. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) BUS, McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) BUS, –Implied powers, national laws supreme Gibbon v. Ogden (1824) Gibbon v. Ogden (1824) –National econ. Growth, “interstate commerce”


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