America on the Move

1. America on the Move

2. 3 Areas of Change... 1. Industry 2. Inventions 3. Geography Effects

3. Samuel Slater & Francis Cabot Lowell Brought smuggled plans back from England to create textile mills Created $$$ for the U.S. through trade Industry

4. Factories offered 2 things to the American worker: 1.) A source of income 2.) Creation of Mills communities Very significant for young women.

5. Lowell Mills • Large, city-like area where young girls 9-15 years could live and work until marriage. • Earned $2.00 a week • All room, board, food included • Monitored “Marm”

6. 2 Advantages • Gave farm girls an out so they could earn money for a “good marriage” • Allowed freedom for these young women never known before

7. 2 Disadvantages • Extremely dangerous area to work, often lost fingers, limbs and lives • Money they earned they could not keep—only a man could claim it.

8. 2. Inventions Remember to fill in your notes of who invented what and how did it help the U.S.

9. Steamboat • Robert Fulton inventor • Able to carry more • Cargo for increased trade • People • Helped increase profits

10. Telegraph • Samuel Morse • Able to send communications across long distances faster & cheaper • Connected the U.S.

11. Steam-powered Tractor • John Deere • Used idea behind a steamboat with coal to assist farmers • More crops, more farmers, more westward movement

12. Reaper • Cyrus McCormick • Furthered ease of farming labor • The reaper was hand-held • Quicker harvest meant more lands to harvest

13. Cotton Gin • Catherine Green & Eli Whitney • Interchangeable parts • Helped increase the cotton production in the Southern plantations • Increased trade for U.S. which meant higher $$$ in tax revenues

14. 3.) Geographic Effects Because of the inventions and the industrial revolution boom.... 4 main effects that occurred

15. 1... Triggered wide spread westward movement Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, and by 1840 Texas

16. 2.... Cotton became the highest cash crop in the South Cotton exports to Europe increase 150% in a decade

17. 3.... Native Americans were driven off lands used for Mills, farms, and plantations

18. 4... Slavery increased by 2.5 million in 40 years Slavery was abolished in 1808 after that any child born from a slave mother was considered a slave