Chapter 6
Words
Inventions and improvements Led to an expansion of Agriculture, Manufacturing, Transportation, Expanded Suffrage, Led to political parties. |
Gestures
Lightbulb, Screwdriver Hands together grow like a plant Twin pounding hammers Hands like engine “woo woo” Open hands like a folded ballot Say “Jackson”, hold elbow like political sign |
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Notes
Time frame 18-teens --> 1860s
American Industrial Revolution began in New England. Water Power!
Rocky soil, poor farming. Emigrate West or to mill towns i.e. Lowell, Fitchburg, etc.
Farm machinery, steel plows, reapers, combines, cotton gin --> King Cotton and slavery.
Factory system: raw materials --> finished product under one roof. Division of labor, mass production, interchangeable parts.
Rise of capital/management/LABOR
Canals --> Railroads
Sailboats --> Steamboats
“Jacksonian” Democracy – Spread of democracy
Spoils system/party politics
Just about all white males could vote!
US growing: Westward, economically, population, immigrants
Time frame 18-teens --> 1860s
American Industrial Revolution began in New England. Water Power!
Rocky soil, poor farming. Emigrate West or to mill towns i.e. Lowell, Fitchburg, etc.
Farm machinery, steel plows, reapers, combines, cotton gin --> King Cotton and slavery.
Factory system: raw materials --> finished product under one roof. Division of labor, mass production, interchangeable parts.
Rise of capital/management/LABOR
Canals --> Railroads
Sailboats --> Steamboats
“Jacksonian” Democracy – Spread of democracy
Spoils system/party politics
Just about all white males could vote!
US growing: Westward, economically, population, immigrants