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.
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.