In the 18th and 19th Century

New inventions

Developed.

Urbanization was one of the effects

Since many Americans moved from their farms

To the cities for economic opportunities offered there.

Railroads traversed the country bringing an influx of

Immigrants, both Irish and Chinese as laborers.

Agriculture is improved by the creation of the cotton gin, steel plow, and mechanical reaper. Industry

Lowered the cost of goods and expanded markets

Robert Fulton makes water travel easier with the invention of the steamboat

Eli Whitney improves the efficiency of cleaning cotton. This causes a

Very bad effect, the INCREASE of slavery in the SOUTH and they allow their economy to be based on

Only one thing: King Cotton!

Labor needs shifted. Lowell starts a factory using single women as workers! The

United States used Samuel Morse’s invention of the

Telegraph improves communication and Eli Whitney creates

Interchangeable parts that improves manufacturing in the North.

Once a dominant Agrarian society, the United States becomes a

Nation of innovation and industrialization!