Pre Industrialization 1800-1850
1800-1850 Economic Development of the U.S.
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- Eli Whitney
- an American inventor who developed the cotton gin. Also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged
- Robert Fulton
- American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
- Erie Canal
- A canal between the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo, completed in 1825. The canal, considered a marvel of the modern world at the time, allowed western farmers to ship surplus crops to sell in the North and allowed northern manufacturers to ship finished goods to sell in the West.
- Lowell system
- common in Massachusetts, this system enlisted young women, mostly farmers' daughters in their late teens and early twenties, many of these women worked for several years in the factories, saved their wages, and then returned home to marry and raise children.
- turnpikes
- Privately built roads that charged a fee to travelers who used them
- Samuel Slater
- Immgrant mechanic who initiated American industrialization by setting up his cotton-spinning factory in 1791.
- cotton gin
- In 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin that removed the seeds from cotton mechanically
- Interchangable parts
- components of any device designed to specifications which insure that they will fit within any device of the same type. Invented by Eli Whitney
- National Road
- A federally funded road, stretching from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois
- putting out system
- work was done at home rather than in a factory