THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

ANOTHER REVOLUTION AFFECTS AMERICA

• Factories were an outcome of the Industrial Revolution.
• Interchangeable parts were parts that were exactly alike.
• Mass production was producing goods in large quantities.

THE BEGINNING

• The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britian.
• Inventors came up with ways to generate power through streams and coal.
• Then the first factories were built in Britian.

THE WEALTH OF AMERICA

• The main source of income in America after the War was trade.
• Two events turned Americans toward the development of domestic industries.
• [Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812]

THE COUNTRY IF AFFECTED

• The North was most affected by the change in manufacturing.
• They were more affected because factories strived in the North.
• Agriculture was the main source of in the South.
• Factories were popular in the North because of the city life.

TEXTILE INDUSTRY

• The machinery was becoming better and more efficient.
• 1813, the American textile industry was changed by mechanizing all the stage making of cloth.
• Plans from an English mill were used.
• Francis Cabot Lowell, Nathan Appleton, and Patrick Tracy Jackson.

SPLIT IN TWO

• During this time, there were two sides.
• The agriculture part (South and West)
• Industrial part of the country (North)
• The South and West produced grain, wheat, and other food.
• While the North used machinery to produce items that could be utilized.

AGRICULTURE IN THE NORTH

• In the North, cash crops were the only source of farming or agriculture left
• the growing cities and the type of soil, only let the farmers grow 1 to 2 crops.
• Situations arose in the North due to the rising populations, and the cities
• being built.

AGRICULTURE IN THE SOUTH

• Cotton took over as the cash crop in the South.
• The cotton gin lead to the increase and demand for cotton.
• Slaves were also in a high demand because of amount of cotton.
• The plantations in the South were growing and they needed slave.

MADISON'S PLAN TO UNIFY THE NATION

• Unite the regions of the country and create a strong, stable economy that would make the U.S. Self-sufficient.
• Three major points presented.
• Developing transportation system, establishing a protective tariff, and resurrecting the national bank.
• Henry Clay promoted theAmerican System.

THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

• The American System would unite the nation's economic interests.
• The North would produce the manufactured goods that farmers in the South/West would buy.
• South and West would produce most of the grain, meat, and cotton needed in the North.
• An accepted from of money and improved transportation network would connect them.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

• Improvements that are going to help the nation move goods or travel faster.
• The railroads, Erie Canal, and the National Road.

TARIFFS

• The tariffs on imports suggested by Madison and Clay was a protective tariff.
• Increased the price on imports of foreign goods and got rid of the price advantage.
• The Northerners welcomed the tariff, but the people in the South and West were upset.
• They resented any government that made imports more expensive.

NATIONAL BANK

• The leaders agreed that a National Bank would benefit everyone.
• The Bank would make available currency accepted nationwide.
• This would make it easier for people in different regions to do business.

JAMES MONROE