100 likes | 192 Views
The North before the Civil War. The Location. Geography: great ports, Erie Canal U nsteady growing season climate forced people to focus on things other than farming. Dense forests for lumber. The Inventors. Elias Howe: Sewing machine
E N D
The Location • Geography: great ports, Erie Canal • Unsteady growing season climate forced people to focus on things other than farming. • Dense forests for lumber.
The Inventors • Elias Howe: Sewing machine • Isaac Singer: Mass produced the sewing machine, made it available for common person • Workers could now make hundreds of time more textiles in a factory
Inventors • John Deere: invented a lightweight steel plow. Earlier plows were made from iron and had to be pulled by ox. • Cyrus McCormick: opened a huge factory that produced mechanical reapers. Horse-drawn-could do the work of 5 men • Result: thousands of farmers left farms to work in cities
The Industrial Revolution • A long, slow process in the early 1800s that completely changed the way goods were produced • Before 1800s most goods were produced by hand • The economy shifted from farming to manufacturing • Barter to money, less sustenance farming
The Power • Steamboats revolutionized transportation in the early 1800s. • Steamboats ferried passengers up Atlantic Coast, and gave farmers and merchants a cheap means of moving goods
The Results • The Northern economy expands • Machines begin to use steam power instead of water power. Cheap and easy to run. • More goods produced, at a lower cost • Families left farms and moved to cities.
The Man • In the 1790s’ the factory system brought workers and machinery together in one place • The Revolution stared in Britain. Britain wanted to keep factory designs secret • Samuel Slater smuggled designs for a spinning mill to the USA
Inventors • Samuel Morse: developed a way to send electronic messages through wire-The Telegraph-think Morse Code • John Griffiths: Invented the Yankee Clipper: The fastest sail boats in the world for a short time. Helped increase world-wide trade