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Section 3

Section 3. By: Sara, Jonissa, Jakob , Max and Beck. terms. Interchangeable parts- are parts that are for practical purposes identical An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests

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Section 3

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  1. Section 3 By: Sara, Jonissa, Jakob, Max and Beck

  2. terms • Interchangeable parts- are parts that are for practical purposes identical • An organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests • A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions

  3. Erie Canal • Big part in transportation • Provided a way for goods to travel to different places • Provided jobs for people

  4. Roads and Turnpikes • 1806 the nation took first steps toward transportation • Congress funded the building of major east-west highway • The national road in 1811 laborers started cutting the road bed westward from the Potomac River at Cumberland, Maryland

  5. Steam Boats and canals • Rivers offered a faster, more efficient, and cheaper way to move goods than did roads • The steam boast changed all of that • In 1807 Robert Fulton and T. Robert R. Livingston stunned the nation when the Clermont chugged 150 miles from New York to Albany

  6. The “iron horse” • Another mode of transportation was railroads • Peter cooper built an American engine based on the ones developed in great Britain • 1930 coopers tiny but powerful locomotive Tom Thump pulled the first load of passengers

  7. New system of productions • A new revolution occurred in business and industry • The industrial revolution • This began in Britain in the middle 1700s

  8. Industrialization sweeps the north • Industry developed quickly in the united states in the early 1800s • This happened for several reasons • The most important factor was the free enterprise

  9. Technological advances • A wave of inventions and technological innovations spurred the nation’s industrial growth • Eli Whitney popularized the concept of interchangeable parts • Changed gun making from the one by one process into a factory process

  10. Rise of large cities • Industrialization of the united states led to a lot of people looking for factory jobs • Looked for higher wages • Made workers go up to 1.3 million by 1860

  11. Workers begin to organize • Industrial boom created a new source of labor • The factory worker • Ones with higher wages • Cities populations doubled even tripled in size

  12. Roads, canals, and railroads • 1820-1840 view of lock port in New York on the Erie Canal

  13. Peter Coopers tom thumb races a horse-Also a young mill worker

  14. The Family Farm • Even though industries and cities expanded in 1800 • Agriculture remained the countries leading economic activity • Farming employed more people and produced more than other workers

  15. The End

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