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232-237, 238-242: Development of infrastructure (rail, canal/roads). Development of early industry

232-237, 238-242: Development of infrastructure (rail, canal/roads). Development of early industry. 1830’s-40’s:. “WHIG PARTY” Attempts to Modernize NC. How?. WOOD- POWER- ED. Whigs financed trains with government $. Connected NC to rest of the…. Good for trade.

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232-237, 238-242: Development of infrastructure (rail, canal/roads). Development of early industry

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  1. 232-237, 238-242: Development of infrastructure (rail, canal/roads). Development of early industry

  2. 1830’s-40’s: “WHIG PARTY” Attempts to Modernize NC. How?

  3. WOOD- POWER- ED

  4. Whigs financed trains with government $ Connected NC to rest of the… Good for trade • Wilmington and Weldon Railroad AND Raleigh and Gaston Line

  5. By 1850’s, lines ran from Wilmington to Asheville.

  6. Farmers could ship crops

  7. At this time, CASWELL became the richest county in NC. 1830s-60

  8. Also: a cheaper but less long term alternative. Mainly down East

  9. Whigs also promoted… Textile mills and mines. For power, some mines used . Steam engines

  10. Cotton production boosted slavery. Eli Whitney’s Cotton gin boosted Cotton production

  11. equals

  12. “Lifeline of the Confederacy” Ships brought supplies to Wilmington Took supplies to army

  13. Transportation: • Western towns like Asheville grew due to RR. • By 1890 NC connected in every direction to rest of US

  14. Manufacturing • People began factories to turn raw materials into products. • By 1900 becoming most industrial state in South

  15. Furniture factories in • High Point due to RR.

  16. Growth of mills boosted Towns like Charlotte and Concord. Farmers moved into mill towns.

  17. Mills located near rivers and streams. Why? http://www.osv.org/types-of-mills

  18. Improvement: Steam engine Could locate Mill in more Places.

  19. All of this depended on restoring… It shipped the product

  20. Result: every town on the railroad had a textile mill.

  21. Washington Duke Buck Duke Tobacco industry geniuses

  22. Bonsack cigarette rolling machine. Cigarettes Very Popular In the North Mechanization took over the cigarette industry

  23. HYDROELECTRIC POWER THE NEXT STEP:

  24. JAMES B. DUKE CREATES “DUKE POWER”. SELLS POWER TO TEXTILE MILLS

  25. 1890’s TECHNOLOGY Electric streetcar Electric Street lamps telephone

  26. NEW TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyAdCb04HzU Common by 1912

  27. ECONOMIC EXPANSION • NC used western rivers as power

  28. INCOME INEQUALITY • “Middle Class people” lived in suburbs, more money, streets paved. • Mill workers poor, lived in Mill Towns. Houses Small, streets not paved.

  29. MORE NEW TECHNOLOGY BOOSTED ADVERTISING AND SALES=$ RADIO

  30. CONNECTING COAST TO THE MOUNTAINS NC WENT INTO DEBT TO BUILD ROADS

  31. CHARLOTTE MANUFACTURING ASSEMBLY LINE FORD MODEL T PLANT

  32. STATE GOVERNMENT built best Highways in the South to

  33. Manufacturing • AFTER WWII • New Industries Recruited from North • 1970’s: Tobacco declines, • Textiles and Furniture decline-competition

  34. A new economy arose as old industries declined. New industries such as international banking.

  35. Research Triangle Park near Cary. Software, Astroturf, drugs, computers

  36. OUR FUTURE: BUILDING A NEW ECONOMY

  37. YOU HAVE TO BUILD IT!

  38. Plank Roads • 1850’S RR lines from Asheville to Wilmington

  39. Manufacturing • Cotton Mills on the Cape Fear • 50 mines employed thousands and used steam engines The Whigs brought in railroads and textile mills. The biggest effect was on farmers. Farmers could use the railroad to ship out their crops.

  40. The Civil War 1861-5 • War and Defense: • Steamships were used to run blockades and bring in supplies. • Port of Wilmington was important to the South. Last open port in South • The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad was the main supply line • The port and railroad made NC a target of • Union attack.

  41. W&WR called “Lifeline of the Confederacy” • Union attacked NC due to the importance of the RR. • General Sherman attacked Goldsboro to cut the lifeline.

  42. North Carolina’s role as a supply line for the South made the state a target. The North attacked to capture the port and cut the railroad.

  43. Economics (money making, business, etc.) • Due to RR, people gathered all kinds of products to sell. • Concord ,Charlotte, and new towns grew due to RR and mills.

  44. Because of railroads, new towns and mills were started. Those towns began to grow as people made money

  45. Technology • Duke’s Bonsack cigarette rolling machine put other cigarette companies out of business. • Mills/textile, furniture, cigs- began to use steam engines and moved away from streams. • Telephones, electric streetlights and electric streetcars in the 1890’s

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