National Growth And Development
Birth of Cotton Industry • First Industrial Revolution – 1700’s – Textile Mills • Fault Line = Water Power • Displaced Cottage Industry • Cotton – Southern Climate = Cotton Production – Costly Production – Eli Whitney • Cotton Gin – – One person could do the work of 50 Increased profitability of slavery Allowed expansion of plantation system Production and price of cotton soared
Modernization of Farming • Preemption Act of 1830 – Farmers could move west faster then survey teams – Quickly developed western farming land • Steel Plow – Increased Production – John Deere – Interchangeable parts • Mechanical Seeders • Mechanical Reaper – Cyrus Mc. Cormick – Do the work of 12 men
New Technology • Canals and Railroads – National Rail Road • Northeast – Erie Canal • New York City to Lake Erie to New Orleans • Samuel FB Morse – Telegraph • Revolutionized Communications • Charles Goodyear – Patented vulcanized rubber • Elias Howe – Sewing Machine
The Lowell System • Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo of 1807 increased Amerian Manufacturing • Samuel Slater – Steam Engine Secrets • Textile Boom in Northeast • Increased Cotton Production • The Lowell System – Francis Cabot Lowell – Lowell Massachusetts – Factory = First to Spin and Weave Cotton – Mostly Young Women Workers
Continue • Women Workers – Good Dexterity – Work for lower Wages – From Farm Families/Communities • Help for • Escape from – Founded thriving Society • Harsh Working Conditions – 13 hours a day/6 Days a week – Working Conditions dangerous and unhealthy – Over Charged for Dorm Rooms and Boarding – Strict Rules – Constant Cut in Wages and increase in Boarding
Mormonism • Founded by Joseph Smith – Vision from God and Jesus • Lost Testament of Bible = Book of Mormon • Smith Translated Golden Tablets into English using “seeing” Stones • Only Person to actually see tablets • Beliefs – Native Americans = Lost Tribe of Israel – Color of Native America Skin = Punishment – Jesus Second Coming Happened in US – Leader of Church = Prophets who communicates with God – Polygamy (originally, not today)
Continue • Smith – Founded Church in 1830 – Persecuted for beliefs – Founded Nauvoo Ill in 1839 – Killed by mob on June 27, 1844 • Brigham Young – Successor to Smith – Moved Mormons to Great Salt Lake in Utah (part of Mexico) • Escape persecution – Made the Desert Bloom – Utah Became territory in 1847
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