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Early U.S. History Lecture #9

Early U.S. History Lecture #9. The Industrial Revolution 1820-1860. Themes. Industrialization extended new opportunities for some people, but closed off opportunity to others. Industrialization increased sectional differences as Southern states remained largely agricultural.

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Early U.S. History Lecture #9

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  1. Early U.S. HistoryLecture #9 The Industrial Revolution 1820-1860

  2. Themes • Industrialization extended new opportunities for some people, but closed off opportunity to others. • Industrialization increased sectional differences as Southern states remained largely agricultural. • A new upper class in the North teamed up with converts from the 2nd Great Awakening to push for new reforms

  3. Watt Steam Engine

  4. Meeting the Requirements for Industrialization • Some investment—Loans from British banks and some merchants had made enough on their own. • Plentiful raw materials—cotton, coal, iron. • Labor—difficult to procure due to a small population, cheap land, and American individualism. • Risk taking entrepreneurs—American dream • Scientific experimentation—Yankee ingenuity • Government support or interest—tariff • Expanding markets—canals, roads, westward expansion, growing population.

  5. Eli Whitney

  6. Cotton Gin

  7. Eerie Canal

  8. Ely Moore • Who was Ely Moore? When and where did he give this speech? • According to Moore, how did industrialization endanger American democracy? • How did he portray the working class? How did he portray employers? • What remedy he suggest to preserve democracy and help the working man? • What did he mean by the phrase, “illegal combination?” How did he defend these “combinations?”

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