Transcript 7 May-0.pptx

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Discuss: How does technology help and hinder our
lives?
Today, I will be able to explain how new inventions
change manufacturing and farming in the North.
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Yesterday, we took the chapter 12-13 test.
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Many still need to turn in the timeline.
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**Make sure I give you a copy of 14.2 today; you will
have all of tomorrow to complete it and bring it
Monday to class.
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Telegraph and Morse Code
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Plows and John Deere
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Allowed a horses to replace oxen, which made cultivating the land
cheaper and faster.
Sewing machine
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Opened lines of communication. People could communicate
quicker and over longer distances
Relatively unskilled workers could make dozens of shirts in the
time it took a tailor to make one by hand.
McCormick Reaper
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The reaper could do the work of five people using hand tools;
allowed for a more profitable harvest.
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Locomotives were fueled by coal and made of
iron.
Problems: Farmers didn’t want train tracks
going through their fields. Teamsters and
people that invested in canals were not happy.
People questioned the safety of early railroads.
Technological advances will eventually make
railroads safer and the industry takes off (pg.
376)
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Steam-powered machines will prove to be cleaner,
more powerful, and cheaper to operate.
Products were produced at a cheaper cost.
Goods were able to reach new markets quicker.
Drawback: Northern farmers were being replaced
because goods that came from the west were of
similar quality and much CHEAPER. Those ppl
were forced to find different jobs and New
England shifted towards manufacturing.