ECOMONY 1800s
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ECONOMY FROM
1800-1860
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Slow to come to America
Need for land, labor, capital, consumers
Samuel Slater-”Father of the factory
system”
Eli Whitney-cotton gin & interchangeable
parts
Textile Industry
Headquarters in Lowell, Massachusetts
“Factory girls”
Single farm girls
Put in corporate boarding houses
Held to very high morals and expectations
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1834-Mower-Reaper
Cyrus McCormick
1837-Steel Plow
John Deere
1844-Telegraph
Samuel Morse
1846-Sewing Machine
Isaac Singer
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
IMMIGRATION
“Old Immigration”
Western Europe
Settled
Irish & Germans
Irish-in cities (NY & Boston), worked in factories & on
railroad
Germans-moved west (Wisconsin), farmed
“Political Machines”
Wooed & helped new immigrants in exchange for
vote
Most famous-”Boss Tweed”, NY
Captured in political cartoons by Thomas Nast
IMMIGRATION
IMMIGRATION
“Nativism”
Fear & dislike of immigrants
1849-American “Know Nothing” Party
Restrictions on immigration
Deportation of poor
IMMIGRATION
TRANSPORTATION
Roads
1790s-first paved roads
Invention of “turnpike”
1852-First national road from Maryland to Illinois
Waterways
1807-Steamboat invented-Robert Fulton
1825-Erie Canal
1840s-Clipper ships-international trading
Mostly helped the west and south to trade goods
and bring in manufactured goods
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION
Railroads
Most significant contribution to economy
Better than water ways
Fast & reliable
Cheaper to construct
Did not freeze in winter
1828-first railroad
By 1860-30,000 miles of track
75 % in the North
1833-passenger travel becomes popular
1859-Pullman’s “sleeping palace”
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION
1858-Stagecoaches available for
western travel-Missouri to California
COMMUNICATION
1860-Pony Express-mail delivery, Missouri
to California in 10 days
1861-Telegraph wires spread west
1866-Telegraph wire crossed Atlantic Ocean
to permanently link America & Europe