CHAPTER 3:GROWTH & DIVISION

Section:1 Industrialization

Industrial Revolution

Is a: Complete change of economic & social

organization by the replacement of hand tools with power driven machines

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Transportation 1. The Erie Canal

Man made river connecting Lake Erie – Hudson River

2. National Roads Toll Roads

3. Trains “The Iron Horse” Revolutionized transportation

4. Steamboat

Life People moved from farms to big cities!

Goods were made in factories instead of by hand

Women & Children go to work

Workers Unite Labor Unions = group of workers band together

for improved working conditions

Inventions The Telegraph

Invented by: Samuel F.B. Morse

The Cotton Gin Invented by: Eli Whitney Prolonged Slavery ???????

Regional Differences

North SouthEconomy:

Based on Industry (Factories)

Economy:

Based on Agriculture (Plantations)

Transportation:

Many roads / canals / railroads

Transportation:

Lack of roads / canals / railroads

Workers:

Cheap Urban labor

Workers:

Slave Labor

Did Industrialization affect Nationalism or Sectionalism? ?Why????