1. Quiz!! Ha Ha!5 pts = be ready, 5 pts = quiz • 1) Who won the election of 1824? • 2) Who won the election of 1828? • 3) The journey of Native Americans to forced territory in Oklahoma was known as ______ ___________ ___ _________ • 4) What state threatened to secede from the union? • 5) Leave U.S. alone & we’ll leave you alone is known as _______________________ • *Bonus: If you had to identify the most important quality in a friend what would it be?

2. Jackson’s Assassination attempt The Industrial North 7.3 VIDEO

3. Objectives • What the Industrial Revolution was • How the Industrial Revolution affected the North • The advancements made in transportation & communication

4. Who is Samuel Slater? In 1789 the textile industry was so important to the British economy that it was illegal to take information about it from the country. Samuel Slater, however, was a young mill worker who wanted to use his skills in America. To get past the law, Slater disguised himself as a farm laborer & bought passage to America. There, he teamed up with a merchant & used his knowledge of machines to build the 1st successful textile mill in the US, launching the Industrial Revolution in America.

5. The Industrial Revolution • Birth of modern industry & social changes that accompanied it • Began in Britain’s textile mills Later we’ll learn about the 2nd Ind. Rev. Could there be more in the future?

6. The North Industrializes • Samuel Slater: violated British laws, 1st successful US mill • Francis Lowell: wealthy textile merchant, town named after him (Lowell, MA)

7. Lowell Girls • Young girls that worked 14 hours, 6 days a week • People begin moving from farms to cities How would you like to work that schedule? What’s the longest you’ve worked?

8. What does this mean? “When you sell your product, you retain your person. But when you sell your labour, you sell yourself, losing the rights of free men and becoming vassals of mammoth establishments of a monied aristocracy that threatens annihilation to anyone who questions their right to enslave and oppress.” "Those who work in the mills ought to own them, not have the status of machines ruled by private despots who are entrenching monarchic principles on democratic soil as they drive downwards freedom and rights, civilization, health, morals and intellectuality in the new commercial feudalism."

9. Transportation • National Road: Cumberland MD to Vandalia, IL • Erie Canal: connected Great Lakes to Hudson R to Atlantic Ocean Today, this road is Route 40 in IL.

11. Cont’d • Robert Fulton: 1st successful steamboat Clermont • Railroad: became most important transportation by 1840 (aka “Iron Horse”)

12. Communication • Samuel F.B. Morse: patented 1sttelegraph (sends messages electronically through wires) Jackson Biography