The North PowerPoint

The North

Lesson One: The Industrial Revolution

​Textile Industry:

• The first breakthrough in the Industrial Revolution was in how textiles, or cloth goods, were made.

• Richard Arkwright, an Englishman, invented a spinning machine in 1769 called the water frame, which replaced hand spinning.

• The water frame used flowing water as a source of power.

• Could produce dozens of cotton threads at the same time

• Lowered the cost of cotton production and increased the speed of textile production

• Merchants built textile mills near rivers and streams.

• Great Britain soon built the world’s most productive textile manufacturing industry.

Lesson One: New Machines & Processes

​Main Idea 2: The development of new machines and processes brought the Industrial Revolution to the United States.

Slater and His Secrets

• Samuel Slater brought the secrets of textile mill manufacturing from Great Britain to the United States.

• The textile industry arose in the Northeast, introducing the Industrial Revolution to the United States.

Lesson One: New Machines & Processes

A Manufacturing Breakthrough

• U.S. factories needed better technology, or  tools, to manufacture muskets.

• Inventor Eli Whitney developed musket factories using water-powered machinery.

• Whitney introduced the idea of interchangeable parts, or parts of a machine that are identical, to make musket manufacturing easier.

• Interchangeable parts sped up the process of mass production.

Lesson One: New Machines & Processes

​Main Idea 3: Despite a slow start in manufacturing, the United States made rapid improvements during the War of 1812.

• Lower British prices on manufactured goods made it difficult for American manufacturing to grow.

• American manufacturing was limited to cotton goods, flour milling, weapons, and iron products.

• The War of 1812 cut off trade with Great Britain, allowing manufacturing in the United States to prosper and expand.

• Americans realized that the United States had been relying too heavily on foreign goods.

Multiple Choice

What was the first industry to begin to use machines to manufacture goods?

• Farm Indsutry

• Automobile Industry

• Textile Industry

• Railroad Industry

Open Ended

How did Eli Whitney influence American manufacturing?

Lesson Two:

Big Idea: The introduction of factories changed working life for many Americans.

​Main Ideas:

• The spread of mills in the Northeast changed workers’ lives.

• The Lowell system revolutionized the textile industry in the Northeast.

• Workers organized to reform working conditions.

Lesson Two: Mills Change Workers' Lives

​Main Idea 1: The spread of mills in the Northeast changed workers’ lives.

• Factory jobs usually involved simple, repetitive tasks done for low pay.

• Could produce dozens of cotton threads at the same time

• The mill industry jobs by hiring whole families and paying children low wages.

• Built housing for workers and provided a company store

•  Samuel Slater’s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks was called the Rhode Island system.

Lesson Two: The Lowell System

​Main Idea 2: The Lowell system revolutionized the textile industry in the Northeast

• Francis Cabot Lowell created a new system of mill manufacturing in 1814, called the Lowell system.

• The Lowell system involved

  • Employing young, unmarried women, who were housed in boardinghouses

  • Providing clean factories and free-time activities for its employees

  • Having mills that included both spinning thread and weaving in the same plant

Lesson Two: Workers Organize

​Main Idea 3: Workers organized to reform working conditions

• Employees worked 12-to-14 hour days in unhealthy conditions.

• Craftsmen’s wages dropped in competition against cheap manufactured goods.  

• Wages of factory workers dropped as they competed for jobs.

Lesson Two: The Beginning of Trade Unions

• Craftsmen formed trade unions to gain higher wages and better working conditions.

• Factory workers also formed trade unions. 

• Labor unions staged protests called strikes, refusing to work until employers met their demands.

Lesson Two: Labor Reform Efforts

• Millworker Sarah G. Bagley helped lead the union movement in Massachusetts.

• Bagley’s union campaigned to reduce the 12-to 14-hour workday to a 10-hour workday.

• Several states passed 10-hour workday laws, giving Union workers some victories.

• In other states, the workday remained long and child labor prevailed.

Multiple Choice

Who had a strong voice in the union movement?

• Martha Washington

• Eli Whitney

• Laura T. Stanley

• Sarah G. Bagley

Open Ended

What was life like for mill workers in the Lowell System?

Lesson Three:

Big Idea: New forms of transportation improved business, travel, and communication in the United States.

​Main Ideas:

• The Transportation Revolution affected trade and daily life. 

• The steamboat was one of the first developments of the Transportation Revolution.

• Railroads were a vital part of the Transportation Revolution.

• The Transportation Revolution brought many changes to American life and industry.

Lesson Three: Trade and Daily Live

​Main Idea 1: The Transportation Revolution affected trade and daily life.

• The 1800s gave rise to a Transportation Revolution: a period of rapid growth in new means of transportation.

• Transportation Revolution created boom in business by reducing shipping costs and time.

• Two new forms of transportation were steamboat and steam-powered trains.

  • Goods, people, and information were able to travel rapidly and efficiently across the United States.

Lesson Three: Steamboats

​Main Idea 2: The steamboat was one of the first developments of the Transportation Revolution.

• Robert Fulton invented the steamboat, testing the Clermont in 1807.

• Steamboats increased trade by moving goods more quickly and more cheaply.

• More than 500 steamboats were in use by 1840. 

• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824): The Supreme Court reinforced the federal government’s authority to regulate trade between states.

  • Gibbons argued that a federal license meant he could use New York waterways without another license. The Supreme Court agreed with Gibbons.

Lesson Three: American Railroads

​Main Idea 3: Railroads were a vital part of the Transportation Revolution

• Steam-powered trains had been developed in Great Britain, but it took 30 years for the idea to catch on in the United States. 

• Peter Cooper raced his Tom Thumb locomotive against a horsedrawn railcar in 1830, proving its power and speed despite losing because of a breakdown near the end of the race.

• About 30,000 miles of railroads linked American cities by 1860.

• The U.S. economy surged as railroads moved goods cheaply to distant markets.

Lesson Three: Transportation Revolution

​Main Idea 4: The Transportation Revolution brought many changes to American life and industry.

• People in all areas of the nation had access to products made and grown far away.

• Railroads contributed to the expansion of the nation’s borders.

• Cities and towns grew up along railroad tracks.

• Growing prosperity of the nation encouraged Americans to take pride in their country

Lesson Three: Impact of Railroads

• ​Coal replaced wood as a source of fuel as trains grew bigger.

• Railroads helped create the coal industry.

• Coal, shipped cheaply on trains, became the main fuel in homes and in the emerging steel industry.

• Railroads helped the lumber industry grow, leading to large-scale deforestation.

• Railroads caused cities to grow, including Chicago, which became a transportation hub.

Multiple Choice

Which of these forms of transportation was invented during the 1800s and led to a rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel?

• Airplanes

• Steamboats

• Submarines

• Automobiles

Multiple Choice

Which of the following became the main source of power as faster locomotives were built?

• Wood

• Coal

• Gasoline

• Oil

Open Ended

What effect did the Transportation Revolution have on the United States?

Lesson Four:

Big Idea: Advances in technology led to new inventions that continued to change daily life and work.

​Main Ideas:

• The telegraph made swift communication possible from coast to coast. 

• With the shift to steam power, businesses built new factories closer to cities and transportation centers.

• Improved farm equipment and other labor-saving devices made life easier for many Americans.

• New inventions changed lives in American homes.

Lesson Four: Telegraph Speeds Communication

​Main Idea 1: The telegraph made swift communication possible from coast to coast.

• In 1832, Samuel F. B. Morse perfected the telegraph—a device that could send information over wires.

  • The device did not catch on until the 1844 Democratic National Convention, when the nomination was telegraphed to Washington.

  • A Morse associate created Morse code to communicate messages over the wires.

  • Morse code turned pulses of electric current into long and short clicks.

  • Clicks, also called dots and dashes, were arranged in patterns representing letters of the alphabet.

• The telegraph grew with the railroad; the first transcontinental telegraph line was completed in 1861.

Lesson Four: Steam Power and New Factories

​Main Idea 2: With the shift to steam power, businesses built new factories closer to cities and transportation centers.

• The shift from water power to steam power allowed owners to build factories anywhere.

• Factories were shifted closer to cities and transportation centers.

• Cities became centers of industrial growth.

Lesson Four: Improved Farm Equipment

​Main Idea 3: Improved farm equipment and other labor-saving devices made life easier for many Americans.

• John Deere designed a steel plow in 1837 that replaced the less efficient iron plow.

• Cyrus McCormick developed a mechanical reaper in 1831, which quickly and efficiently harvested wheat.

  • McCormick used a new method to encourage sales, advertising.

  • He also allowed people to buy on credit and provided repairs and spare parts for his machines. 

• These inventions allowed farmers to plant and harvest huge crop fields, helping the country prosper.

Lesson Four: Changing Life At Home

​Main Idea 4: New inventions changed lives in American homes

• The sewing machine, invented by Elias Howe and improved by Isaac Singer, made home sewing easier. 

• Ice boxes and iron cookstoves improved household storage and preparation of food.

• Mass-produced goods, such as clocks, matches, and safety pins, were more affordable and added convenience to households.

Multiple Choice

What was the invention that improved daily life at home?

• Sewing Machine

• Blender

• Deep Fryer

• Freezer

Open Ended

What effect did new inventions have on agriculture in the United States?