Industrial+Revolution

Nationalism - feeling of pride and loyalty to one's country The Industrial Revolution - factory machines replaced hand tools; large scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work; the factory system brought workers and machines under one roof.

First factories in MA - Lowell Mills

__Factory Workers__ Inside; close quarters/hot/dangerous/ poor air quality/deafening Had a boss Same daily task Guaranteed income but others set price Work 12-14 hrs.

__Farmers__ Work outside Work for self Tasks vary Benefit or suffer from income Set own hours

Interchangeable parts - Eli Whitney Steamboat - Robert Fulton

Erie Canal connected NY City with Buffalo, NY National Road - 1841 - went from MA to IL

1837 - Samuel Morse - comes up with machine to send pulses of electricity along a wire - first telegraph - invented the Morse code

1844 - 1st long distance telegraph line carried news from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.

John Deere - invented lightweight plow with a steel cutting edge - good for soil in Midwest

The threshing machine and mechanical reaper made farming easier/not as labor intensive.