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NATION BUILDING

NATION BUILDING. Transportation Early Industrialization Early Factories Cotton Revolution Marshall Court. Transportation Revolution. Roads: public and private finance Flatboats: hauled goods down river. Steam Boats: Robert Fulton- Hudson rout By 1815 steamers from New Orleans to Ohio.

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NATION BUILDING

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  1. NATION BUILDING Transportation Early Industrialization Early Factories Cotton Revolution Marshall Court

  2. Transportation Revolution • Roads: public and private finance • Flatboats: hauled goods down river. • Steam Boats: Robert Fulton- Hudson rout • By 1815 steamers from New Orleans to Ohio. • Canals: 1825 Erie Canal 364 miles, • Connected Miss/Ohio river to Atlantic. • New York: “Emporium of America” • Shipping from NY to Liverpool.

  3. Erie Canal: 1818-1825, 364 miles

  4. 8 Preconditions for Industrialization • Transportation: roads, canals, steamboats • Power: steam power replaces water • Technological advances: iron and steel • Capital: BUS, private and state banks • Labor: immigration • Private property laws: Marshall court • Natural Resources • Communication

  5. Early Factories • Artisan and Home manufacturing • “Putting out system” • British Industrial Revolution:1790 • New England Textile Factories • Francis Lowell (1813-1850) his was the • 1st big U.S. Factory system • Who workers ?: “Mill Girls” and Children • Then later, Immigrants • Factory work: wage labor, repetitive tasks • Eli Whitney: proto assembly line, rifles

  6. Cotton Revolution • Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin 1793 • Supply cotton for textile mills • Revival of slavery: 10,000 bales in 1793, • 400,000 bales of cotton produced in 1820 • Cotton Belt: Louisiana Purchase • American Colonization Society 1817 • Raised money to send slaves back to Africa • About 12,000 former slaves settled Liberia

  7. John Marshall Court: 1801-1835 • Judicial Review, Sanctity of contracts, • economic growth, National laws supreme • over state laws • Dartmouth v. Woodward (1819) • Sanctity of contracts, SC reviews state laws. • McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) BUS, • Implied powers, national laws supreme • Gibbon v. Ogden (1824) • National econ. Growth, “interstate commerce”

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