Lesson 1-Polling Question

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D

Which do you think is the most important innovation of the 1800s?

A. The expanding railway � system

B. Faster communication

C. Faster ships and trains

D. More efficient manufacturing � methods

Chapter 14 North and South (1820-1860)

Lesson 1 The Industrial North

Essential Question

What innovations in industry, travel, and communications changed the lives of Americans in the 1800s?

Technology and Industry

• Innovations in industry and technology began to change the way Americans worked and traveled
• Industrialization in the North developed in 3 phases
• 1. Manufacturers made products by dividing the tasks involved among the workers
• 2. Manufacturers built factories to bring specialized workers together (Products made quicker)
• 3. Factory workers used machinery to perform some of their work (Water or steam power)
• From weaving to tending a machine

Lesson 1

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D

What happened in the first phase of industrialization in the North?

A. Factory workers used machinery � to perform some of their work.

B. Manufacturers made products � by dividing the tasks involved � among the workers.

C. Waterpower and steam power � were used to produce more � products in less time.

D. Manufacturers built factories to bring specialized� workers together.

Mass Production in the North

• Cotton textiles
• Elias Howe invented the sewing machine in 1846
• Workers now created clothing on a large scale
• Other industries also developed during the same time period
• By 1860- The NORTHEAST’S factories produced at least 2/3 of the countries manufactured goods

Improved Transportation

• Transportation improvements contributed to the success of America’s new industries
• Between 1800 and 1850- thousands of miles of roads and canals were built
• Canals opened new shipping routes
• Robert Fulton’s steamboat could carry more goods and passengers more cheaply and quickly
• Cities like Cincinnati, Buffalo, and Chicago grew
• 1840’s- Clipper ships could sail 300 miles per day (“Clipped time” from shipping)

Locomotives

• Railroads started with short stretches of track to connect mines with nearby rivers
• Horses pulled the early trains
• The first steam powered locomotive, the Rocket, began operating in Britain in 1829
• Peter Cooper created the first American steam locomotive in 1830 named Tom Thumb
• Tom Thumb raced a horse with a train behind it
• The horse won (Tom Thumb’s engine failed)
• But within 10 years steam locomotives were pulling trains in the US

A Railway Network

• 1840- The US had about 3,000 miles of track
• By 1860- The US had almost 31,000 miles of track
• Mostly in the NORTH and Midwest
• Connected larger cities together
• Railway builders connected these eastern lines to lines being built farther west in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
• By 1860- The railroad track united the Midwest and East

Moving Goods and People

• The railways transformed trade in the nation’s interior
• No longer did people have to send agricultural goods down the Mississippi to market
• Now east-west canal and rail network allowed grain, livestock, and dairy
• Products could move directly from the Midwest to the East
• Faster and cheaper
• Manufacturers in the East could offer them at lower prices
• Fast, affordable train travel brought people into Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois and the states populations grew
• New towns and industries developed

Faster Communication

• Growth of industry and new pace of travel created the need for better communication over vast distances
• The telegraph filled the need
• Samuel Morse demonstrated his “Morse Code” and sent messages across wires
• Soon telegraph messages were flashed back and forth from Washington D.C. to Baltimore
• The Associated Press was created in 1848
• By 1853- There were about 23,000 miles of telegraph lines in the US

Agriculture

• Agricultural technology allowed farmers to greatly increase the size of the harvests they produced
• There were few farmers west of Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota
• These areas seemed too difficult to farm
• Settlers worried their wooden plows could not break the prairie’s matted sod
• Plus they thought the soil was not fertile enough

Lesson 1

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D

Why were American farmers reluctant to cultivate large areas in the Midwest?

A. They feared tornadoes � wiping out their crops

B. Their wooden plows � could not break through � the prairie sod.

C. They did not have access � to new markets in which to � sell their harvest

D. The border dispute with � Mexico made the Midwest unstable.

Revolution in Agriculture

• 3 Revolutionary inventions of the 1830s changed farming methods and encouraged settlers to move west to farm
• 1. John Deere’s steel tipped plow in 1837
• 2. The mechanical reaper sped up harvesting of wheat
• 3. The thresher quickly separated the grain from the stalk

McCormick’s Reaper

• Cyrus McCormick designed and created the mechanical reaper
• Made a fortune manufacturing and selling it
• Before McCormick’s Reaper, farmers harvested grain with handheld sickles
• With McCormick’s Reaper, farmers could harvest grain much faster
• Now farmers could plant more wheat and it became very profitable
• This ensured raising wheat would remain the main economic activity in the Midwestern prairies

Farming

• These new machines and railroads allowed farmers to devote more acres to cash crops
• Midwestern farmers began growing wheat as a cash crop and shipping it to the east
• Farmers in the Northeast and Middle Atlantic increased their production of fruits and vegetables
• Despite improvements in agriculture, the North turned away from farming and toward industry
• New England had rocky soil and industry flourished
• The number of people working in factories continued to rise

Essential Question

What innovations in industry, travel, and communications changed the lives of Americans in the 1800s?

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-Industry: Division of labor, factories that used steam and water powered machines, mass production

• Travel: locomotives, steamboats, clipper ships, roads, canals, railroad networks
• Communications: telegraph

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Chapter 14 Lesson 1 Quiz

After industrialization, workers’ tasks changed.

1. True
2. False

The sewing machine increased the rate at which clothing was produced.

1. True
2. False

Canals made shipping goods cheaper and faster

1. True
2. False

The increased number of canals and railways slowed down the transportation of agriculture.

1. True
2. False

After the invention of revolutionary farming methods, settlers left the Great Plains area.

1. True
2. False

In the 1840s the pride of the open seas were the

1. steam-powered ships.
2. clipper ships.
3. iron-hulled ships.
4. prairie schooners.

By 1860 the United States had almost 61,000

1. clipper ships.
2. miles of telegraph lines.
3. canals.
4. miles of railroad tracks.

Which invention filled the need for a method of communication that kept up with the industrial growth and fast-paced travel?

1. Morse code
2. telegraph
3. steam engine
4. railroads

What did John Deere invent in 1837?

1. the telegraph
2. the clipper ship
3. the steel-tipped plow
4. Morse code
5. Green and yellow tractors

An invention that ensured that raising wheat would remain the main economic activity in the Midwestern prairies was the

1. mechanical reaper.
2. mechanical horse.
3. thresher.
4. steel-tipped plow.

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