The Industrial North

1. The Industrial North • The industrial revolution – 1750’s – 1800’s. • Farming goods and hand made goods transition to manufactured goods. • Many mills would be located on a stream/river. • Steam engines would become much more efficient in the early 1800’s.

2. The North Industrializes • Samuel Slater – brought knowledge of machines to America from Britain. • Water powered spinning mill. • 1810 – more than 60 mills • Lowell Mills – brought production of cloth under one roof. • Hired women – tough job!!! • Many people moved from the farms to the cities to work in mills. (urbanization)

3. Transportation and Communication • Needed ways to transport the goods being produced at high rates. • 1811 – national road was built completed in 1841. • 800 miles – Maryland to Illinois • 1825 – Erie Canal connecting Great Lakes with the Hudson River. • Quick way to get farmed goods of the south to the economical north.

4. Erie Canal • Cheaper, faster to ship goods to the coast. • This allowed New York to become the biggest center of economic activity.

5. Steamboat & Railroads • Robert Fulton – 1807, successfully went upstream. • Moved many people to operate steamboats for profit. • Trains 1830 – only 23 miles of track. • 1840 over 3,000 miles of track! • Speed, power, reliability and capacity made this the #1 means of transportation.

6. Communication • Steamed printing press – allow faster production of writings – more people could read. • Postal Service – mail could reach people faster. • Telegraph – Samuel Morse – 1840, electricity and wires. • Industrial revolution allowed our country to connect!