Bellwork 10.26.15
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In 4-5 sentences, Name a piece of
technology that has most improved
how school works.
○ around when was it invented?
○ When did you start using it?
○ What benefits does it give to
schools?
○ How do others use this?
○ Why is it better than other
technology?
Unit 3:Balancing Nationalism
and Sectionalism
1815-1850
Big Ideas
Developments in Technology, Agriculture and commerce precipitated profound changes in the US
settlement patterns, regional identities, gender and family relations, political power and distribution of
consumer goods.
The United States developed the world's first modern mass democracy while Americans sought to
define the nation's democratic ideals and reform its institutions to match them.
Objective 10.26.15
Analyze the relationship between innovation, economic
development, progress and various perceptions of the
"American Dream" through Reconstruction.
Agenda 10.26.15
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Bellwork and Discussion
Lecture over Industrial Revolution and Sectionalism
Group work over Technological Revolutions
Exit Ticket over Sectionalism
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1817: Construction Begins on the Erie Canal
1819: US Acquired Florida from Spain
1820: James Monroe is re-elected president
1820: Congress agrees to the Missouri Compromise
1824: John Quincy Adams is elected president
1828: Andrew Jackson is elected president.
1832: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
1836: Martin Van Buren is elected president.
1838: Removal of the Cherokee along the Trail of Tears
begins.
➔ 1840: William Henry Harrison elected president.
1815-1840 Timeline
Transportation
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Improved Roads
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The Steamboat
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ability to travel upstream much easier. Robert
Fulton invented the Steam Engine
Canals
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Charters companies started making Turnpikes:
roads in which users had to pay a toll.
Erie Canal was 363 miles, New York from Lake
Erie to Hudson River. Pushed people West.
Railroads
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Began to appear in the 1820s. Developed steam
powered trains.
Industrial Revolution
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Samuel Slater moved to the US from Britain and built the first Textile Mill.
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Francis Cabot Lowell developed another Mill in Massachusetts which
could create cloth instead of thread
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These milles used rivers and creeks to power their machine and create cotton thread.
Company enforced strict rules and operated boarding houses for young women.
Created strict moral codes for factories called the Lowell System.
Cities begin to develop next to rivers.
Interchangeable parts were invented which improved efficiency in
factories and manufacturing. Eli Whitney brought them to the US.
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They were identical components that could be used in place of one another.
Industrial Revolution Cont...
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In 1837, Samuel FB Morse invented the telegraph. Series of dashes and
dots that traveled across metal ires and allowed for communication over
long distances. This was called Morse Code.
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By 1860 there were 50,000 miles of telegraph.
Agricultural remained the largest industry.
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Steel plow invented by John Deere
Mechanical Reaper invented by Cyrus McCormick. Cuts down wheat or corn for you.
Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney.
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Questions
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Name technology that was developed in the
1800s and name some ways it changed how
people did things?
Which do you think would have been one of the
most important inventions?
Sectionalism
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Sectionalism in the 1800s is the concept that the North and the South
began to develop differently.
Industry (aka Economics) began to be sparked in the North while the South
continued to rely on Agricultural.
Cultural shifts and immigration developed in the North and the South
remained stagnant.
Sectionalism Map
North
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Fully embraces industry.
Emigration Explodes.
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Mainly from Ireland and Germany.
Culture begins to shift.
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Middle class begins to develop thanks to industry. Work and family life began to divide.
They moved into neighbors.
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Factory workers were stuck still living in the cities because they could not afford
neighbors.
Labor force becomes emigrants and lower class.
South
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Cotton is King.
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Increase of the slave population, especially in the south.
Created a dependence on the cotton industry.
Furnishes raw materials and begins to connect to the North (the North is
manufacturing). They also trade with Great Britain.
Culture remains the same, reinforces traditions and emigration does not
grow like the North.
Labor force was slavery and it experienced a large growth in this time
period.
Illiteracy was 3 times higher in the Southe
Group Work
Conduct research about a particular technological advancement during the
1800s and explain why it benefited those who used it.
Railroads, Steamboats, Canals, Interchangeable parts, mechanical reapers,
cotton gin, steel plow, and telegraph.